I'm sure this has been rinsed on mumsnet, but...

[Saffron]

...does your child's primary school allow party invitations to be handed out in class? What kind of issues do you see because of your school's policy, or lack thereof?

[hammerman]

I just handed out party invites after school or whenever to parents and wouldn't expect teachers to have to.

[Convex]

we get ours sent home in bookbags

[Saffron]

Thanks, that's interesting to read. I went to school overseas, and DH is just generally clueless about these things (bless 'im). Sometimes I wonder if I'm having an 'AIBU' moment, because I don't always know what to expect from local schools. We were definitely not allowed to handout invitations during school hours at my childhood schools.

My daughter's school doesn't seem to have a policy on this. Different teachers appear to handle it differently. This means that some teachers are letting children handout party invitations in class at the end of the school day. I think this is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but I wondered how other schools were handling it. xx

[redjam]

No policy at our school - I normally just ask my daughter to try to hand them out as subtly as possible when they go in. I don't think her definition of 'subtle' is quite the same as mine though... Mind you, she's also been on the (non)receiving end when other kids have been handed out invites in front of her and she's not had one, and she didn't seem unduly bothered by it. I guess they just learn quite quickly that they can't be invited to everything: no big deal.

[Emski]

I'd been worried about my daughter getting offended st not being invited to a party, as well, of course, of upsetting someone whom she chose not to invite to her birthday. I was relieved to learn that it seems pretty much by the by - and my 8 yr old is definitely a sensitive sort! Her class /school seem to hand out invitations before or at school.