Probably majorly overthinking this but DCs birthday party will be coming up not too long after starting P1 this month. There are a couple of parties that I know of before DCs but those invitations have been handed out at nursery prior to leaving so I think ours will be the first party dealt with at school.
DC has had 2 parties before and my rule has been that everyone in their keyworker group at nursery must be invited as I don’t want kids left out, then any other kids DC plays with can be invited. Has been around 22 kids the last 2 years (18 from nursery and others from outwith)- 1 church hall party, 1 soft play party. There were around 60 kids at nursery in total so less than half invited.
How do you deal with not leaving kids out at a large-ish primary school? 52 kids in P1 - split over 3 classes. 21 in DCs class. DH says just invite DCs whole class - but some of the kids in other classes are DCs good friends. DC says “it’s a party for all P1s” 🫠😅 which would be lovely - but 52 kids (if they all turned up!) is really not within my budget 😅
From what I can roughly work out there would be about 15 in DCs class and 10 from across the other 2 classes that would be on DCs invite list if I asked for one. 15 out of 21 in a class being invited feels not great!
No party is not an option. Extremely shy DC and parties have helped so so much with social confidence. DC has specifically requested a church hall party.