One of the reasons for doing this work is as part of a continuing project looking at local, national and international traditions, feast days and holidays. The background graphic, if your browser lets you see it, was designed by Amy Ridding. Other graphics were created by pupils in year 7 and are credited where they appear. Each piece of work between the horizontal rulers is the work of a different pupil. Some of the pupils have includes their names.
People send each other cards and presents to say that they love each other.
It was first started by the Romans and was named after two of them both called St Valentine. People make up poems and rhymes to send in cards to the people they love. Chocolate and flowers are also a popular gift to be sent on Valentines day. In the early days of Rome, fierce wolves roamed the woods nearby. The romans called upon one of their gods, Lupercus, to keep the wolves away.