#2 is pretty sociable, seems to have lots of friends and greets people with
great enthusiasm. However today she received her first party invite since
before Christmas, and I heard a couple of parents of other girls commenting
that they'd had a lot recently. I was a bit surprised as I'd got the
impression that she was popular and certainly at least 2 of the people the
person cited I would have put as expecting an invite from.
Now having thought about it, I'm wondering if she's being left out for a
silly reason. Her best friend has a very similar sounding (but not
identical) name, and I've noticed that some of the children call them both
by best friend's name. It's not bothered me, and it doesn't bother #2, she
answers fine to it, and seems to know when they want her rather than best
friend.
Certainly in one child's case they told #2 that she was invited but not best
friend (I was there) but best friend got the invite not #2 when it came out.

Parents' evening is coming up, and my inclination is to check that #2 is
socialising fine, and leave it at that, but I'm wondering whether to ask the
teacher to correct the children that are using best friend's name.

It doesn't seem to be bothering #2 much that she's not getting the invites,
but she has commented that "everyone else has got invites". Certainly at
that age most of #1's form invited all the girls, (although there were fewer
girls so it might not be the case with #2) and it might be that parents are
saying "there's not two children called best friend" so #2 could be just
not getting the invites when "all" the other girls are when she's meant to.

Debbie