HABERDASHERS Monmouth School raised more than £1,500 for two charities at their anticipated version of The masked singer’ know as ‘Staff masked Singer’.

This event was held at the Blake Theatre, this event has ben running for four years and is supported by two charities; The Ted Senior Foundation and The National Foundation for Retired Service Animals.

Seven Haberdashers’ teaching staff, who were disguised as cartoon characters, sang their hearts out in heat and the audience tried to guess who was behind the mask.

Mrs Sarah Fowler, Assistant Head, head of wellbeing and safeguarding manager organised and compered the event which also featured energetic dance routines from all our dance students and lively banter from the panel of judges; Mr David Hope, Mrs Katie Rowsell and Miss Emma Barson.

Sonic the hedgehog, later revealed to be Mr Francois Someset-Norris who is the additional learning needs teacher at Haberdashers prep school, kicked off the show with a confident Elvis-style rendition of Great Balls of Fire.

Miss Bethan Powell, who is now Mrs Price, a drama teacher, dressed as Elsa with a performance of What Dreams are made of from The Lizzy Maguire Movie.

Mr Philip Vaughan-Smith, Housemaster and history teacher, appeared as Kevin the minion and delivered a performance of Rule the World by Take That.

Mr Darian Evans, who is the assistant head academic performance and Mr Rob Picken, English teacher and Wye House pastoral lead sang a 90s classic of Deeply Dippy by Right said Fred.

Miss Sandra Macneill, biology teacher impressed the judges with her performance of Price Tag by Jessie J.

Elmo was revealed to be Reverent Mother Alycia Timmis who opted for 80s synthpop song Only you by Yazoo and was voted as audience favourite.

The evening concluded with a celebratory sing-along to Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline uniting the audiences in a feel-good finale.