There will be 5 girls and 15 boys new in DD's reception class

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I can't help but be a little sad and worried. Should I be?

weird - are any of them id twins ? (Mine are and they start school this autumn - the staff are already struggling to tell them apart !)

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you should feel extremely lucky that there are a total of only 20 kids when 30 is normal!

As a mum of a quiet/hard working ( gasp) almost Y1 BOY. Yes BOY! I am disgusted by some of the comments on here.
I have a girl too, so I do understand each CHILD is different. As a former teacher I would also say that bullying was down to girls most of the time, so I would worry more if my daughter was in a class with a disproportionate amount of girls.

Just be careful with your comments about boys. I really hope you don't talk about boys when they can hear you

Our children have to learn to get along with others, wether the are 'silly' boys or not Or course, girls can be more refined, it is often when they are whispering about someone or leaving someone out or putting a boy down.

our school has a class with 25 boys, 5 girls and it is a nightmare - more than one teacher has found it VERY difficult.

The thread is sexist

I haven't even thought of this tbh, dd1's playgroup has way more boys than girls - she is one of only 5 girls moving to the school in September

she 'doesn't like boys apart from X as he plays nicely' , but she doesn't like girls that are loud either

does it make a difference?

the girls will still get better results than the boys in every subject and will continue to do so at every level until they leave school www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article615102.ece so i'd be much more worried if i was the parent of one of the boys!

it's not sexist!

bet most posters have boys and girls.

If boys do worse at school it's nothing to do with women who put them down,demoralise,call them stupid. Is it?

Dinny,that'S like racists saying they have friends who are black

I think that it is silly to say this thread is "sexist" in a derogatory manner. Of course it is sexist. Little boys and little girls are different! You'd have to be completely oblivious to not think so (and go on being different for quite a while). Both my ds and dd are in years with far fewer girls than boys (something in the water around here maybe!). It hasn't been a problem for ds, although I know that his class is quite lively, but it has been for the girls in both classes, not because they are sidelined I don't think, but because in general girls (certainly at infant age) mostly want to be friends with other girls, and the pool is just much smaller. dd still hasn't really made proper firm friends yet, and she's just about to go into yr2. I wish she was happy to make firm friends with the many nice boys in her class, but she wants "best" friends, and best friends appear to be by definition girls. I am afraid that small children are quite deeply sexist, because they generally have a strong feeling of wanting to be with other people very like themselves (it's supposed to be part of learning your identity).