The Santa Clara de Cuéllar school has joined the celebration of ‘May Day’, a traditional festival with dances, performances and street parades that takes place in England on the first Monday in May to mark the arrival of spring. Although in small … British towns usually pick flowers to celebrate ‘May Day’, at Cuellarano school it has been decided to go with colored or green clothes, as well as with necklaces and crowns made with floral arrangements.
As part of the day’s activities, all the students did different crafts such as coloring a flower, which they glued on a stick and ‘planted’ throughout the school garden. Although each spring festival is different, the typical thing is that all the neighbors gather at a key point in the town and decorate the streets with colorful garlands and flowers. In the case of the Santa Clara school, the garlands were placed at the entrance doors to the educational center, while the flowers, made by the students with different materials, were placed in all the windows of the school.
The sixth grade students were in charge of performing the traditional dance around a pole with colored ribbons and flowers. The ‘Queen of May’ was also crowned, who in Cuéllar was one of the oldest teachers at the educational center, Teresa Tejo. The queen received the position excitedly, and then presided over the traditional ribbon dance from a throne decorated for the occasion with colorful flowers.
