The day was organised and run by Year 6 children and school council members. Children competed in their school houses: Hertswood, Ashridge, Cuffley and Phasels and the winning house overall was... Phasels! Much fun was had by all and we were very impressed by Year 6's organisation and encouragement and all the children's enthusiasm and sportsmanship.

Childrens author Jack Trelawney visited Mandeville on Monday 7th October to take part in our Childrens Book Week activiites. Everyone dressed as Pirates and were enthralled by his book reading and stories of action and adventures in Erthwurld.

During the Summer Holidays 60 lucky children were given the opportunity to attend Mandeville’s Wonderful and Wacky Summer School. 

 

The theme for this year’s summer school was Science with each day having a different theme such as "Orrible Science", Minibeasts and Circus Skills.
There were lots of trips and visitors  arranged which gave them all lots to share upon their return to school in September. These included a farm visit to the school, a circus skills workshop and a dinosaur man.

 

One of the highlights was a trip to Butterfly World where Creepy Crawlies were handed round for everyone to hold and butterflies chose many of our children as an exciting place to land!!

 

Every day the children all worked together in small groups to cook their own healthy lunches. Chocolate making proved great fun with lots of chocolate being eaten as well as made!!

 

Mrs Hayes ran action packed science workshops with themes such as "Orrible Science" where they learned all about the Human digestive system and our fantastic wild area  provided a wonderful environment for the children to learn more about the fascinating world of minibeasts,

Thanks go once again to the Rotary Club of St Albans who helped fund all the exciting events .

 

Overall a fabulous time was had by both children and staff alike with everyone already looking forward to next year

During the Summer Holidays 60 lucky children were given the opportunity to attend Mandeville’s Wonderful and Wacky Summer School. 

 

The theme for this year’s summer school was Science with each day having a different theme such as "Orrible Science", Minibeasts and Circus Skills.
There were lots of trips and visitors  arranged which gave them all lots to share upon their return to school in September. These included a farm visit to the school, a circus skills workshop and a dinosaur man.

 

One of the highlights was a trip to Butterfly World where Creepy Crawlies were handed round for everyone to hold and butterflies chose many of our children as an exciting place to land!!

 

Every day the children all worked together in small groups to cook their own healthy lunches. Chocolate making proved great fun with lots of chocolate being eaten as well as made!!

 

Mrs Hayes ran action packed science workshops with themes such as "Orrible Science" where they learned all about the Human digestive system and our fantastic wild area  provided a wonderful environment for the children to learn more about the fascinating world of minibeasts,

Thanks go once again to the Rotary Club of St Albans who helped fund all the exciting events .

 

Overall a fabulous time was had by both children and staff alike with everyone already looking forward to next year

Years 4-6 production of Bugsy Malone took audiences by storm this week. The fabulous singing, fast-paced action, dazzling choreography and wonderful costumes left audiences cheering loudly. Well done to Mrs Cooper and everyone involved. It was simply brilliant to see so many of our children performing so confidently and clearly loving their moment in the limelight. We say a sad farewell to Mr Forbes this week, who is retiring after 13 years of bringing the joy of music to Mandeville. 'Thank-you for the Music, Mr Forbes'... We will miss you.

Our pioneering touch-typing course has been recently credited in the national press. The article, entitled 'Keys to Success' appeared in the 21st April edition of The Sunday Express magazine. The article highlights the advantages of being able to touch type and mentions Mandeville School as one of the few primary schools in Britain to teach typing.

 

Please see Latest News Documents for a PDF of the Sunday Express Article.

Our new Academy Governing Body is now in place. With our conversion into an academy, we have a lot of new faces on the Governing Body and several of our previous governors are standing down. We would like to give our grateful thanks to Andrew Mayo, Hannah Laming, Katie Lees, Terrie Bourner, Ian Sharpe, Eileen Harris and Nick Pearson as they step down, for their great service to the school. Rosemary Harrington-Lynn is continuing as Chair of Governors and Community Governor. We warmly welcome Christoph Lutz and Mark Quamina as our new Parent Governors; Gemma Sergejev as Staff Governor and Sam Othen as Community Governor. Kathryn Burton, who was an Associate Governor, is also now a Community Governor.

 

Futher details and photos of our Governing Body will be added over the next few weeks to our 'Who's Who - Meet the Governors' page in the School Information section of our website.

Year 4, 5 and 6 will have the opportunity to earn a Bikeability Certificate after February half term. Year 4 are being offered the chance to take part in Level 1 and Years 5 and 6 will work towards Level 2. If you would like your child to take part in the Bikeability course and would like more information, please speak to the school office.

In the Spring Term 2012, Mandeville School raised over £350 for the Shelter Box Appeal by organising 'The Mandeville Art Gallery,' which show-cased and sold the wonderful artwork of talented artists throughout the school. 

 

The Shelter Box Appeal used the money to buy 2 Shelter boxes, containing shelters and emergency equipment. These boxes have now been deployed!!!! They have been sent to Nigeria where they are helping families devastated by the worst flooding in 50 years, which has forced many families to flee their homes.

 

For more information, see the Young ShelterBox website.  www.youngshelterbox.org

 

(Our Box Numbers are 5349 and 5351. Once you have logged on to the site, type in the Box No. and press search. You will see Mandeville Primary School listed as a Box Donor. Press 'Track Your Box', on the left hand side of the screen.  On the right hand side, under 'Get Tracking', you will need to select 'YSB UK' where it says 'Country'. Enter the Box no. again, then press 'Go'. (If you select just UK, it will track the wrong boxes, it must be 'YSB UK'). 

During the snowy weather, we have been having lots of fun in the snow and have been doing some weather-related learning both inside and outside the classroom!