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    Festivals in The United Kingdom

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    Festivals in the United Kingdom are celebrated throughout the year, beginning with New Year's Eve on December 31st where people welcome the new year with parties and singing Auld Lang Syne. Valentine's Day on February 14th is when people express love, and Mothering Sunday is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent by giving gifts to mothers. Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th honors Ireland's patron saint with parades and drinking Guinness. Easter is marked by sunrise services, egg hunts, and traditional foods like roast lamb. May Day on May 1st features Morris dancing and crowning a May Queen. Halloween falls on October 31st. Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th commemorates the

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    Festivals in the United Kingdom are celebrated throughout the year, beginning with New Year's Eve on December 31st where people welcome the new year with parties and singing Auld Lang Syne. Valentine's Day on February 14th is when people express love, and Mothering Sunday is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent by giving gifts to mothers. Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th honors Ireland's patron saint with parades and drinking Guinness. Easter is marked by sunrise services, egg hunts, and traditional foods like roast lamb. May Day on May 1st features Morris dancing and crowning a May Queen. Halloween falls on October 31st. Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th commemorates the

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    Festivals in the United Kingdom are celebrated throughout the year, beginning with New Year's Eve on December 31st where people welcome the new year with parties and singing Auld Lang Syne. Valentine's Day on February 14th is when people express love, and Mothering Sunday is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent by giving gifts to mothers. Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th honors Ireland's patron saint with parades and drinking Guinness. Easter is marked by sunrise services, egg hunts, and traditional foods like roast lamb. May Day on May 1st features Morris dancing and crowning a May Queen. Halloween falls on October 31st. Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th commemorates the

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    Festivals in The United Kingdom

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    Festivals in the United Kingdom are celebrated throughout the year, beginning with New Year's Eve on December 31st where people welcome the new year with parties and singing Auld Lang Syne. Valentine's Day on February 14th is when people express love, and Mothering Sunday is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent by giving gifts to mothers. Saint Patrick's Day on March 17th honors Ireland's patron saint with parades and drinking Guinness. Easter is marked by sunrise services, egg hunts, and traditional foods like roast lamb. May Day on May 1st features Morris dancing and crowning a May Queen. Halloween falls on October 31st. Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th commemorates the

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    Festivals in the United Kingdom The beginning of the New Year and the time to make New Years

    resolutions. People welcome in the New Year on the night before. This is called New Years Eve.In Scotland people celebrate with a lively festival called Hogmanay. All over Britain there are parties, fireworks, singing and dancing to ring out the old year and ring in the new. As the clock Big Ben strikes midnight people link arms and sing a song called Auld Lang Syne. It reminds them old and new friends. Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine's Day) is an occasion celebrated on February 14. It is the traditional day on which people express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. Mothering Sunday (Mother's Day) is always the fourth Sunday of Lent. Mothering Sunday is a time when children pay respect to their Mothers. Children often give their Mothers a gift and a card. The Simnel cake is a fruit cake. A flat layer of marzipan. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in the whole of Ireland on 17 March, in honour of St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. St.Patricks Day is celebrated with parades in the large cities, the wearing of the green and drinking Guinness (traditional drink of Ireland). Christians gather together on Easter Sunday for a Sunrise Service. This service takes place on a hill side so everyone can see the sun rise. Chocolate eggs are given to children. Small chocolate eggs are hidden for the children to find on the traditional Easter Egg Hunt. Special Food at Easter : Boiled eggs , Roast lamb, custard tarts sprinkled with currants and flat Easter biscuits & Simnel cake. Egg rolling is very popular in England and the rest of the UK and is an Easter Monday sport. Traditional English May Day celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and dancing around a Maypole. On October 31st, we celebrate Halloween,thought to be the one night of the year when ghosts, witches, and fairies are especially active. In November 1605, the infamous Gunpowder Plot took place in which some Catholics plotted to blow up the English Parliament and King James l, on the day set for the king to open Parliament. The men were angry because the king had treated them badly and they didn't like it. The story is remembered each 5th November when 'Guys' are burned in a celebration known as "Bonfire Night". Throughout England, towns and villages.... light huge bonfires, let off magnificent fireworks, burn an effigy (a homemade model of a man, like a scarecrow) and celebrate the fact the Parliament and James I were not blown sky high by Guy Fawkes. "Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot. We see no reason why Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!"
    Words to Guy Fawkes Rhyme The official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II is marked each year by a military parade and marchpast, known as Trooping the Colour (Carrying of the Flag). The official name is the Queens Birthday Parade. The Queen's birthday parade is the biggest royal event of the year. "God Save the Queen" (or "God Save the King"), the national anthem of the United Kingdom. November is the time of the year when we wear a red poppy in memory of those who sacrificed their lives for us during wars. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts.

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