Moving primary schools

[tableandchairz]

Did you keep in touch with the other parents when your child moved school? To keep the kids/your friendships going?

Kids are 7.

No personal experience but I've only seen the DC stay in touch after one moves school at this sort of age when
a) the parents are friends so would organise to get together regardless of their DC anyway
OR
b) the DC have a shared hobby/activity at which they still see each other e.g. they both go to Brownies/football

7 is too young for the DC to stay in touch unless it's facilitated by parents and they will naturally move on to other friendships.

I think it’s reassuring for the kids if they can still see their closest friends every now and then. My daughter (nearly 5) has gone to a different school from her best friend from nursery and we are meeting up for a play date every couple of weeks and she really looks forward to it. I read somewhere it is recommended you do this. Also nice for me as I really like the other mum!

Thanks, I'll keep in touch with them.

We did for DD1 when we moved.. She for 6 years after us moving regularly met up with her friend from primary. In the last 5 years this has ebbed out and these days they are facebook friends and thats it.

However for a few years it was a important relationship for both girls who called the other "my best friend" So it was worht putting in that extra effort.

I moved DD1's school after her reception year (basically the school was crap and the wrong place for DD1). We've kept in touch with her one really close friend from school but it's very much parent-engineered at the moment - although if they run into each other out and about you get them bellowing hello at each other and shrieking with glee still.

The other ones she was in a class with she sees at Rainbows but those friendships have kind of died out now really (were never close to start with).

Being honest, after about the first week - DD1 had such a nice social group of friends in her new school that it was all absolutely fine and was definitely the right thing for us to do in terms of school switching.

Our DC moved schools when DD was in Year1 and DS was in Year3.

Both of them still have very close friendships with their friends from their old school however it definately takes a lot of work as a parent to keep them in touch. We will continue to do so because it makes them happy and their bonds have remained very strong so it's extremely worth it!

We was at one school for 3 years and then moved to another a year ago.

I have a lot of phone numbers from mums from when we had birthday parties but was hoping someone would call/ text me which never happened

His best friend from previous school is still his best fiend as we are best friends with mum so even though we changed schools and moved to another area he sees him several times per week but nobody else