Birthday Party Advice

UK based. It's my daughters birthday soon and we've booked a party for her the weekend after her birthday. She can invite 20+ kids, however her reception class has 2 classes which means that there's 60 children in her class. She's chosen the ones she plays with and I've told her if anyone asks just tell them mummy's sorting it. My concerns are I feel bad inviting 1/3 of the classes and not the others. Is this normal? Am I missing a trick? Will the other kids even notice? Some of the children seem to know each other and I worry the mums or dads might see it as a slight, however I don't know the parents/kids well enough yet (shes in reception) to know who is who's friends and what's the norm. I do know a kid has had a party already and my daughter wasn't invited and didn't notice, I only realised because the mum asked at the door if she'd given out all of her invites. (I have spoken to the teacher already and she's going to pass out invites discretely). Am I fretting for no reason?

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You’d usually just invite children from her class, but you can’t always invite everyone. As long as there’s not just a couple of kids left out I think it’s fine! Parties can get quite political quite quickly so just do you while no standards have been set

Send invites via text or personally to the parents, don’t send your child to school with the invites to hand out infront of everyone that way it’s not bragging or making anyone feel left out. If it becomes a conversation between kids it’s up to their own parent to explain why they might not of been invited. Luckily this hasn’t happened to my daughter but if it had I’d explain that perhaps the child had a set number of people to invite or that parties are expensive and may not of been able to afford for her and others to go. If you singled out just a couple of kids then of course that would be unfair but you’re not so don’t stress it xxx

Some kids might not be able to attend from those invited, this makes it even more tricky. As long as there’s enough time for Parents to RSVP so you invite other kids.

Thank you ladies, I will let you know how I get on xxx

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