Easter bonnets!

At Longdon, the pupils made outstanding Easter bonnets and took part in an exciting Easter Egg Hunt organised by The Friends of LCS! 

The tradition of making and wearing Easter bonnets may be traced back to the 4th century when, in keeping with the ancient spring time ritual of renewal and re-birth and now resurrection, it became fashionable for Christian Romans to wear new clothes on Easter Day.  Both Shakespeare and Samuel Pepys talk of Easter clothes, the former in Romeo and Juliet (1597) and the latter in an Easter Day diary entry (30th March 1662).  In 1870, the first US Easter Parade took place in New York, when the post-Easter Day service congregation came out of St Patrick’s Cathedral and walked down Fifth Avenue in their finery.  This may have inspired Irwin Berlin to write Easter Parade in 1933, which was immortalised by the eponymous 1948 film starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire.