Daffodils for St David's Day
Today is a very special day in Wales – St David’s Day – and many will be celebrating it by buying or wearing daffodils, or even tucking in to delicious Welsh cakes.
Welsh youngsters enjoyed triple celebrations this week as they enjoyed half term in unseasonal warm sunshine ending with St David's Day today.
Pupils at Radnor County Primary School celebrated the day of their patron saint before they broke up for half term, with an Eisteddfod and awards giving.
Pupils dressed in Welsh costume to celebrate the occasion at the school in New Radnor, which used to be the county town of Radnorshire.
Young people from Cefnllys County Primary School in Llandrindod Wells also marked St David’s Day before their half term holidays.
There was singing and dancing and great excitement during a special St David’s Day assembly at the school. Many children dressed in traditional Welsh costume or wore a daffodil hat or a dragon suit and some carried daffodils, leeks or cuddly dragons.
St David is the patron saint of Wales and also of doves. Also known as Dewi Sant in Welsh, he was born in Caerfai in Pembrokshire, Wales to Sant, a prince of Cardigan, and St Non, the daughter of a chieftain in around 500 AD.
He was recognised as a national patron saint at the height of Welsh resistance to the Normans.
For more on information and pictures about St David’s Day see page 8.
