DO CHILDREN STICK WITH FRIENDS THEY MAKE IN RECEPTION?

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OR DO THEy chop and change?

was just a little worried as dds best friend is leaving in july and the other girls seem to be paired off.

Not sure that there is one rule really. Ds1 in Year 3 is still firm friends with the first 2 boys he met in reception. Ds2 (Year 1) still drifts between groups). Don't think that there is much you can do either way!

they "flit" from group to group i m told because i asked the same question of the teacher ecently.

dont form firm freindships yet apparently.

They do chop and change. My daughter's inseparable friend moved away at the end of Reception and, although she was sad at the time, she actually coped very well. Frankly, by September, she'd almost forgotten her!

Do you live in London? If so, friends leaving at the end of the year will be a feature of your child's life from now on!

yes in london, thought about friends moving on as almost everyone wants to move!

No. They flit from friendship to friendship. And DD usually wants two or three friends over to play together so no 'best friend' thing yet ( although they will be best friends for ten minutes until they change their mind and be bestest friends for ever with someone else. Until ten minutes after that.....)

oh good, am pleased she will flit.shes one of the youngest and theres a definate split with the pre feb birthdays and after.

Yes, that's what happened in dd's class too. All the September starters were already a tight-knit group and all her friends (bar one who she knew outside school) were fellow January starters. I think it fades by year 2, though, and the two groups blend.

And, of course, this may mean that a new girl joins in September ....

My ds1, he is nearly 12, is still in touch with 3 girls he knew in reception, he was with the same class from Reception until they left year 6 and went to secondary school.

My daughter is 19 and is still friends with girls she went to nursery with. They went to different Primary schools then the same Secondary school and still keep in touch and meet up occasionally. She lunches everyday with her best friend from reception.

im still friends with 3 people from reception but only because we went to same school all through and we did have times of losing touch apart from 1 of them we talk often were nearly 30 now

My best friend from before I even started school was my husbands groom's man at our wedding if that counts

DS1 spent his Gap year before University travelling in Africa with the 2 boys who have been his best friends since Reception.

DD isn't in touch with any Reception friends, other than on FB and things.

DS2(Yr6)) is part of a group of friends who have been close since Reception.

So - swings and roundabouts, depends on the personalities, depends if they all develop in the same way/at the same time.

I think they generally flit. also, as children leave new ones come in. At lest 2 of DS2's (he's 8) good friends are newcomers since reception and 2 of DS1's are (he's 10).

Sometimes, sometimes not. Dd (Yr 7) is still best friends with the girl she made friends with in Yr 1, but has lost some other close friends along the way. Ds seems to be chopping and changing a bit more, but is still very close friends with a neighbouring boy he was friends with in Reception, though it's several years since the other boy changed schools.

What I did find with dd was that as they moved into Yr 3 they became better at being friends with more than one person at a time: dd had a lovely group of about 4 or 5 girls.