There is nothing like a dame - or even 12 of them - according to Huntington School's Jenny Wallace.

ALE AND HEARTY:Jenny Wallace gets in the mood for the reunion she is planning which it is hoped will include allprevious panto dames from Huntington School

Jenny, who stands down as head of sixth form this summer, is hoping to be reunited with all the pantomime dames she has worked with during her career at the school.

She is inviting all the past dames to the sixth form's 21st anniversary reunion which is taking place on July 10.

The annual pantomime has become a sixth form tradition over the years and is performed both in school and out in the community.

Costumes are borrowed from York Theatre Royal - like the one Jenny loaned for this picture - and panto stars Berwick Kaler and Martin Barrass have even given master classes during rehearsals.

Jenny, who started working at Huntington School 25 years ago and teaches theatre studies and English, said organising the pantomime was one of the things she had enjoyed most about working in the sixth form.

The school is preparing for the reunion of up to 1,000 people who have passed through the sixth form since it was opened, as well as staff.

Invitations have gone out via parents living locally and also through the personnel departments of big local firms.

"I think there were around 30 pupils in the first sixth form and now there are about 250," said Jenny.

"We're hoping people will come from all over the country and all over the world."

The school will be open from 11am until 3pm on July 10 and in the evening there will be a ticket-only anniversary ball at the York Viking Moat House Hotel.

For more information contact the school on York 752100.

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