I was never really encouraged to join in on the Halloween celebrations. I never went trick or treating until I was 15, and even then I was only aloud in certain areas and was given a curfew of 9pm at the latest (my mother is over protective).

I disliked staying home and giving away the candy to the trick or treaters at my door... ¬¬

In the younger years of primary school, we were usually given a small treat, like a scary looking ginger bread man, or a bat or a ghost, or whatever. Maybe even they'd cook something different for the school lunch kids.

At my secondary school, they'd be some posters up and around, cakes on sale in the canteen for anyone interested (they tasted the same as the cakes sold any other day, just with orange icing >>; ), and in the Spanish department, we usually ended up making something to celebrate the Day of the Dead.