Pupils at Ysgol Hafan Y Mor in Tenby have been dressing in Welsh attrire to celebrate St David's Day today.

Wednesday, March 1st is St David’s Day, the day St David died in 589 AD. His remains are buried at St David’s Cathedral and his shrine became a place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. 

Legend has it that St David ordered his soldiers to wear leeks on their helmets during a battle against the Saxons during the sixth century, while at the Battle of Crecy in 1346, Welsh archers fought in a field of leeks. By 1536, Henry VIII gave a leek to his daughter on March 1, and the leek was associated with St David’s Day.