Month: October 2020

Year 6 have all successfully passed their Bunsen Burner Licence and are now allowed to use it as a laboratory tool. They are currently investigating combustion as an example of a chemical change.

Year 5 and Year 6 have made a fantastic start to STEM this year; they have approached every session with energy and enthusiasm.  Year 6 have been using eggs to create a range of builds to suit a specific purpose.  They started with a capsule which was dropped from the height of a second storey…

Year 7 have been working on the theme of ‘Pilgrimage’ this half term, studying places of pilgrimage for various religions in different regions of the world, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.  They have studied sites in Israel and Palestine that are places of pilgrimage common to many religions, and the tensions caused…

Today was a spooky day at Vinehall for Halloween Friday frightening fun. A wonderful selection of very creative pumpkins were delivered to school and the children arrived in a fabulous assortment of colourful costumes. These were either on a scary theme, a character from a book, something orange and black or just a ‘ghoulish’ hairstyle,…

The pupils have trained brilliantly over the past month and all the sports staff have been very pleased with their progress.  However, we do appreciate that without matches taking place many are missing the weekly competitive element. It is for this reason we have decided to introduce the Vinehall 5s – an exciting inter-bubble competition!…

Honor F and Clemmie D were both awarded Headmaster’s Commendations this week for an independent project they completed on the Black Lives Matter movement. The girls themselves explain below what inspired them to complete this work: Hi, we’re Honor and Clemmie, two Year 8 pupils. Over the summer holidays and during the first half of…

Year 5 Digital Art Week Using an industry standard application, Year 5 have been working in Photoshop to design a symmetrical image. Their topic is mixed media and they have looked at ways to use traditional methods combined with digital.  They use Paint Symmetry to create their work. Saturday Art Club There was a lot…

On Tuesday, Vinehall was delighted to host its annual Book Fair. We did have to tweak the recipe slightly, adding a large dose of hand sanitiser and providing several separate boxes of books for each year group bubble to ensure no cross-contamination, but the energy and enthusiasm of our children for reading books was palpable!…

The French Department is alive and well this term! Bienvenue à Monsieur Britt who is teaching 7S. We have invested in a brand new course book, Dynamo, which is up to date and provides pupils with structured listening comprehensions, reading and writing tasks and grammar drills, along with the accompanying “cahier d’exercises”. Pupils in Years…

The rain may not have been on our side for the last two Tuesday afternoons, but the wind has been; so over the last fortnight we have been upcycling some of the excess plastic bags the lockdown has created and put them to good use. The children have carefully cut, strengthened and stuck their fantastic…