When you were primary school age, how often, if ever, did you attend or have parties & sleepovers?

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Never? Rarely? Lots?

Birthday parties were fairly frequent, tho I don't recall how frequent. But sleepovers were almost always 1-to-1, IYSWIM, one guest at a time. It was a best-friends type of activity, from about the age of 7 or so upwards, and a rare-ish treat.

Sleep overs di not happen ever when I was at primary school. Birthday parties I do remember a few, though they were always at the childs house and never any entertainers or such nonsennse oh no. We ate frozen chocolate bars whilst wearing hats scarves and gloves for entertainment or played sleeping elephants!

same as prettycandles - although people didn't have parties in playplaces - only at home so not everyone was invited.

Sleepovers - my first one was when I was 15 and we all stayed in my friend's caravan on the drive of their house after a disco

Oh, forgot to say -- what decade? 70s? 80s? 90s? Partly wondering if these things are much more common now.

Sleepovers were non existent until I was well into my teens. And I went to a very small handful of birthday parties at primary school, not because I wasn't popular, but because they were quite rare.

Those parties I did go to were usually at home, occsionally in a hall but no specially employed entertainers. Just party games run by family members.

Actually these are the kind of parties my dds seem to enjoy the most when they were little too!

I left school in 1983 (feeling old emoticon). The sleepover was that summer.

Never went on sleepovers, parties were pretty scarce (ie. not everyone had one every year) , but always involved musical statues and having to wear a floor length dress (which I loathed)

Occasionally. At primary school age we used to sleep in tents in friends' gardens during the summer.

At secondary school we'd have a couple of sleepovers each holiday. This one was mainly because I lived about 40 miles from my best friend and we never saw each other outside of school time.

I was born in 1973, so 70s.

Never did sleep overs at primary school. TBH I can count on my fingers the number of times I slept at a friends house.

I do remember birthday parties, but certainly not everyone had one, and most werenot whole class affairs - so maybe 3 or 4 a year??? Possible more.

And play dates? I don't really remember anything organised after school. We used to play with friends who lived on the same stree, who we knew from there rather than school - some would be older, some younger. I wasn't allowed to play on the street when at first school, so we would call for one another and play in the garden. We weren't allowed inside to play much unless it was very wet!