Year 7 class groups allocation

[Alexxxy]

Can someone please advise me as to how High Schools allocate Year 7 classes/groups as a child in question so far is allocated a different class from her 3 friends from year 6? Being a child she is only concerned that she will miss her friends butt they will in the same school just different class/group.

My children’s high school actively split up friendships.
The school has a 10 form intake and they generally have no more than 2 or 3 children from each school in any 1 form. They also try and put them as boy/girl if they can.
Of ds2 classmates from primary 37 went to his his school and there is 1 other girl in his form group.

I'm not saying they will fall out. DD and her primary friends haven't fallen out, no drama, they just all made their own new friends very quickly.

But how does this happen, surely not if they have been best ferns since year 3? They are inseparable, I cannot imagine they won't stay Bf. I know I am probably being unreasonable but how do they just move on to the next set of friends? It seems strange to me.

I know, I couldn't believe it really. DD and her 3 friends had literally been BFFs since reception, never any fallings out at primary - I thought they'd remain close at secondary. So I wonder now whether the primary friendship was almost through habit, and once they had the opportunity to meet new people they all wanted to spread their wings. Of course this may not be the case for your DD but I've read about it on here as being quite normal, so don't be surprised!

People mature and develop @LabPic
People tend to talk to people that it is convenient to talk to - people they walk to school with, or get the same bus, and people they are in the same classes with, or maybe sports teams or whatever.

If doesn't mean they "fall out", it is just pretty common that people meet new people and sometimes share an interest with them, and people they were friendly with at Primary school can often drift apart a little. They don't all, of course, but it is very, very common.

They don't fall out but they do branch out

No. They do not fall out but they widen their friendship group, As they should. Clinging to old friends, when so many others might be suitable friends, is a bit limiting. My dds knew no one when they started. Both were fine. Making friends is something they do afresh in y7.

It’s more that they branch out, they meet new people, and sometimes they’ve got more shared interests with the new friends than the old ones.
Plus as a pp, says, convenience is a factor, if two children who were friends at primary school don’t see each other much at secondary school for whatever reason then that can cause a friendship to drift.

It’s not always the case, I know some adults who are still good friends with their friends from primary school, but it’s very common for friendship groups to change at secondary school.