Preparations are well under way to celebrate St Piran’s Day in Bodmin next month.

Crowds will be lining the streets to watch the lively parade of children and dignitaries, led by fiddle, pipe and drum, as it makes its way through the town centre on Monday, March 6.

The children will sing ‘Trelawney’ and ‘Hail to the Homeland’ and dance on Mount Folly before continuing the parade to St Petroc’s Church, where schools will present a song, poem or play on a Cornish theme.

The celebrations finish with a pasty lunch. This year the children will receive a reusable water bottle, rather than a single-use plastic bottle, with a logo designed by local schoolboy 11-year-old Merix Robins.

The move will help with the effort to make events in Bodmin more plastic-free.

A spokesman for the organisers, using some Cornish language, said: “Join us as we keep Baner Peran (St Piran’s Banner) flying in Bodmin. Gool Peran Lowen (Happy Feast of St Piran).”