All our children came to school on Friday 11th March dressed as their favourite book characters to celebrate World Book Day 2016.  Some of the books chosen to dress as a character from included Wheres Wally, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, George's Marvellous Medicine, Percy Jackson and Wolf Wilder.   Harry Potter, Willy Wonka, Gangsta Granny, Cat in the Hat, Fedora Petrovna and even Medusa could all be seen around the school.

Whilst the children dressed as characters from an enormous range of books all of our teachers dressed as crayons from  "The day the crayons came home" by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. Our World Book Day assembly was a huge success with Mrs Longhurst and her team of teaching staff acting out the book itself to great excitment from the children.

A huge thank you to all the children and parents for creating such fantastic costumes. 

Wow!! Children from years 5 & 6 experienced the night of their life when they joined the Voice In a Million massed choir at Wembley Arena on March 3rd. After spending the afternoon rehearsing, the performance itself was a high energy evening of fantastic singing and dancing.  VIAM (Voice in a Million) use their events to promote Adoption and Fostering and raise money by way of their t-shirt sales.

Guest artists on the night included the X factor’s Charli Beard, from BGT Calum Scott and all the way from Uganda the Destiny Africa Children’s Choir. Songs ranged from '500 miles' to more recent songs such as 'Hold back the river'.  Eventually the children arrived back at Mandeville exhausted and tired but very excited at 11.15pm.

Well done to all the children who took part rehearsing for the past few weeks in their lunch hour and embracing the energy and atmosphere of the show!!