On Friday 19th March 2010, Belleville Primary school held ‘Mad Hair Day’. This involved the majority of the children coming to school with mad, crazy hairstyles and donating £1.00 raising the amazing total of £848.49.

In the playground it seemed like a carnival of colours with weird, wild and whacky hairstyles.  Some were more memorable than others with unusual colours and an incredible amount of hair gel and of course HAIRSPRAY! Even the teachers had creepy, quirky hair for example Mr Ziriat was looking a lot like Side Show Bob ( a character from The Simpsons).

Mad hair day was a special event to raise money for Royal Marsden Trust. Last week, Ms Key organised this event for children with cancer just like her son, who had treatment at the hospital last year. Mad hair was chosen as a theme as those that have this disease lose their hair because of the treatments.

When asked, Brandon, year 6, said, “This was great and it was all for charity.”This was a great occasion for all the children. Although lessons carried on as usual, it was hard to concentrate because of the mad hair! The Royal Marsden hospital was very happy with our contribution which will go toward improving facilities. When I asked Miss Atherton said, “I had a great time and I was very proud to see all the different hair styles. it was very funny to see Mr Grove wearing his wig in the middle of a meeting!”

On top of all this, Ms Key is planning to continue this quest to raise money for this honourable charity, by travelling from London to Paris on her bicycle