Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted reports directly to Parliament and is independent and impartial. Ofsted inspects and regulate services which care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages.

 

Ofsted are visiting us on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th June 2012

 

Please visit our Ofsted page for more information.

Amidst jubilant crowds, 56 lucky pupils from Mandeville enjoyed a prime position, during the Queen's visit to Hatfield House on 14th June 2012. Her Majesty visited the Hatfield Estate as part of her Diamond Jubilee Celebrations. Mandeville were amoung 70 schools from across Hertfordshire who were invited to join the celebration. After planting a tree, the Queen walked over and had a brief chat with our pupils, enquiring about which school we were from, before getting back into her car.

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.    

Our school has recently joined the Sustrans' Bike It scheme. As part of this scheme, there are a number of projects organised by our Bike It officer coming up that you can take part it. You can also read more about the Bike It project here.

 

Bikers breakfast

Friday 20th April. ALL welcome, everybody who comes in on a bike for all or part of the journey will receive a FREE breakfast, everybody who attends will also be entered in a raffle, where lots of prizes are to be won.  A letter should be going home as soon as pupils come back with a return slip, so I know roughly how much food to prepare - so parents should look out for this.

 

Ditch the stabilisers sessions

Dates to be confirmed shortly, a three week after school club which is aimed at pupils who are ready to progress to riding without stabilisers or may have a bike but can't ride it yet. Course will be £5 and places will be limited.

Parents who would like to help with this club are welcome and should contact me or Mrs. Ellingham for more info.

 

Puncture repair workshop.

Dates to be confirmed, will run during lunchtime for KS2, free of charge, pupils will learn how to do a safety check on their bike and fix and puncture.

 

Parents training

Those parents who would like to help to get started riding or just to gain some confidence for riding on the road with their child, are asked to get in touch with me by Friday 27th April 2012. Small groups or individuals, on a ad hoc basis.