First timer here and a very long post alert! My daughter has just been given the details of her new class for September (yr 1) and after being in a lovely reception class where she has made lots of friends, she has now been put up into a mixed year 1/2 class. As there are not enough children the 6 classes have been divided in to 5 and the children divided between them. However we have discovered that our daughter and a 'friend' have been separated from everyone else and will be the only 2 from her original reception class (out of 24). The issue we have is that the friend is very emotionally manipulative and is always telling her who she can play with and even what she is allowed to watch on tv, so we were hoping that they wouldn't be together next term, just to give her a break! She's a strong character and makes friends easily, but I am worried that as she doesn't know anyone else that this friend will try to isolate her even more. She was even openly excited when they had the day off today, just so she could play with someone else! We have spoken to the teacher who referred us on to the head teacher, who will not even engage us in conversation and has written an email to arrange an appointment to 'review' the situation in October. We appreciate they are not going to move anyone round just for one child but it saddens me that she is not with any of her other friends for support. Does anyone have any advice on how best to handle this situation? We are not normally parents who would make a fuss but I am really concerned that the school seem to have made such a strange decision not to split the classes equally and have completely cut her off from all her friends!