Mansfield headteacher's slime bath ordeal for Children in Need

The children at Intake Farm Primary School on Armstrong Road are planning for their head teacher Julian Fieldwick, who is 48-years-old, to be dunked into a bath of cold, green slime!

The slimy stunt, at 2pm, on Friday is aimed to raise lots of money for Children in Need and forms part of the school’s fun-filled Wacky Dress Up Day.

The day will see pupils allowed to go to school in a variety of crazy clothes, sporting mad hair styles, wearing their garments inside out, or with items on back to front and with mismatched shoes.

School office manager Andrea Mabbott said: “Poor old Mr Fieldwick just doesn’t know what’s coming to him, does he?

"Luckily, we won’t let him see this article, so it doesn’t matter if we call on the Chad readers now, before the event to help us by sponsoring the fun on Friday!

"The children have planned for Mr Fenwick to have a really horrible bath in cold, green slime! Yugh! The children are going to absolutely love it, it is all very silly, but it will be quite an unpleasant, slimy ordeal for Mr Fieldwick! He is going to have to wear goggles and a shower cap! There are other surprises in store too!

"We all know it has been tough time for everyone lately, but we really want to raise a huge amount of money for Children in Need as well as having some fun, it’s chance to make people smile, so the children are asking everyone to get behind them, help them raise lots of money through donations and sponsorship.”

Sadly, due to the coronavirus restrictions, not all the children in the 200 pupil school can watch the slime bath fun. Due to coronavirus restrictions class teams will have to watch it live on a screen in their classrooms.

Only one class, to be made up of the children who manage to raise the most money will be allowed into the school hall watch in person.

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