Mandeville has been celebrating the grand opening, 60  Anniversary and Jubilee Celebration with a week of events, culminating in the final big day on Friday, 1st June 2012. The schedule for the day is listed below

 

In May 2010, the Department for Education (the DfE) invited all outstanding and good schools to convert to an Academy. Academy status is designed to allow schools to benefit from greater flexibility and freedom from Local Authority control. 

 

Mandeville School Governing Body has considered the potential advantages and disadvantages of converting to Academy status and made an application to convert to the Department for Education (DFE). As an academy Mandeville  will remain a local primary school serving the local community.

 

Oct 2012

Mandeville's application to convert to an academy has been considered and approved by the DfE, an academy order has been granted and a legal team appointed to progress our conversion.

 

January 2013

The school began the new year as an academy.  Mandeville will lead the newly established Spiral Academies Trust, providing new opportunities for staff and children.  This is a very exciting time for the school,  although many administrative changes are taking place, which will ensure a strong and sustainable future for the school, we are confident that there will be very few changes for children and parents - it's business as usual for learning and progress!

 

Spiral Academies Trust was immediately approved as an academy sponsor by the Secretary of State for Education.

 

The DfE has also approved our application to sponsor Chaulden Junior School, We anticipate Chaulden will formally join Spiral Academies Trust on May 1st  2013, in the meantime we are already working in close partnership with Chaulden to ensure children are receiving a rapidly improving quality of education.

Were you ever a pupil at Mandeville? Did you ever work at Mandeville? Do you know someone who did? Then we would love to hear from you. We need your help as we celebrate Mandeville's 60th year with a day of celebrations on Friday 1st June 2012.

 

Come along and see the school, we’ve just completed a major refurbishment.

 

At 2.30pm on Friday 1st June Herts County Council’s Director of Education; Justin Donovan, will be leading the celebrations releasing balloons to commemorate our '60 years young' and from 3pm there will be an opportunity to be taken on a tour of the school and go down memory lane with our 'Mandeville Jubilee' display & Museum in the hall.

 

We need your memorabilia!

 

Photos, school uniform and especially your memories!

We hope to make this a very special day for everyone and we need your memories of Mandeville. Do you have any stories that you remember about your teachers or staff? What it was like to be a pupil here? What was your favourite school dinner, or playground game?

 

If you can help us to make this a very special day then please contact us

Telephone 01727 754078 or drop us an e-mail celebration@mandeville.herts.sch.uk

 

Post to ‘Celebration’, Mandeville Primary School, Mandeville Drive, St Albans AL1 2LE

Following on from the success of last year's event, Larks in the Park, a community arts event, will again be taking place from 12-4.30pm, on Sunday 24th June, at The Marlborough Club, Old Oak, Cottonmill Lane. Bring along a picnic blanket and enjoy the company of your neighbours, while enjoying a range of music, entertainments and stalls.