St.Valentine's Day

It's a pity that the celebration we've been waiting for ended so quickly...

A bit of history:

Valentine's Day, or St Valentine's Day, is celebrated every year on 14 February.  It's the day when people show their affection for another person (or people!) by sending anonymous cards, flowers or chocolates with messages of love.  And traditionally on Valentine's Day in a leap year - every four years - women can propose marriage to their lovers!

The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. The most popular belief about St Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD.  Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. Valentine thought this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriages in secret.  When Claudius found out, Valentine was sentenced to death and thrown in jail. There, he fell in love with the jailor's blind daughter. His love and belief in God cured her blindness, and when he was taken to be killed on 14 February he sent her a love letter signed "From your Valentine".

How we spent this wonderful holiday at our school...

We had a great time:)

What about you? Did you have something special on that day?