Cherished - not sure if you saw my second post but she already knows at least 13 kids in her class from kinder/childcare and has had playdates with a few of them when they were in kinder together. The issue isn't that she doesn't like them or they don't like her - it's just that she prefers the big kids.

DP reckons it's just that the bigger kids are more physical and I think he's probably right. DD1's the kid who's hanging upside down off the monkey bars, sliding down the school railings, circling down the fireman's pole etc. etc.