Month: September 2021

The Colts A played in the IAPS small schools 7-a-side tournament on Monday and finished in 3rd place. This was a great achievement for the Colts, who played some great football against some very strong small schools. The tournament was held at Charterhouse School and, after a long journey, the Vinehall boys managed to finish…

After reading the story of The Gingerbread Man, the children in Construction Club were given the challenge of building a bridge to help the Gingerbread Man cross the river safely. Some chose to work alone and some worked with friends, just like Billy Bee. The children had access to a range of resources, with the…

Friday’s hymn practice was a sight (and sound) to behold. The whole of the Prep school prepared themselves to sing by balancing their books on their heads. The ‘Bella Signora’ warm up was a timely nod to the European Day of Languages. After a round of ‘My dame has a crane that is lame’ in…

2021 marks the 20th year of celebrating linguistic diversity across Europe on the 26th September.  This year the European Day of Languages is on Sunday, so at Vinehall we have had special languages lessons and events this week.  We are proud of our Global Outlook. Children in Pre-Prep classes loved listening to a French song that…

Monday morning bought a flurry of activity to Pre-Prep as our Eco Warriors ably sorted out the rather large pile of rubbish which had mysteriously accumulated in the hall over the weekend. Well versed in how to recycle, the Year 2 Warriors quickly sorted the rubbish into the correct recycling bins, and order was restored!…

Pupils at Vinehall continue to celebrate Roald Dahl’s work, producing a fabulous array of marvellous medicine bottles, dream jars and, most impressively, a bottle of the BFG’s Snozzcumber Juice, created by Elizabeth H (7PW), marked “Warning: this is filthing, disgusterous, repulsant and icky-poo”. We had great fun as Elizabeth H demonstrated how adding the simple…

Last Friday afternoon Honor H, Isobel F, Rosie D, Imogen W, Jamie M, Yoshi C, Henry C and Arthur P travelled to Saint Ronan’s for the Benchley Cross Country relays.  This is a team event in which an U10 runner set off first and run a 1.6km lap, tagging the U11 runner who also does…

Most of Year 8 are now looking to consolidate the Level 1 syllabus; quite a few of these will be looking to move on to Level 2 soon. This gets better as the language becomes more sophisticated, yet the grammatical framework is already established and is based on stories from Homer’s Iliad, so they are…

It was an exciting start to Week 4 with the launch of Recycle Week UK. Our friends in the Pre-Prep hosted their assembly on Monday morning and heard many inspiring speeches about the ways in which the children felt empowered as ‘eco-warriors’. The Prep school enjoyed an engaging assembly where our recycling knowledge was put…

Bright and early on a September morning, Year 3 and Year 4 headed off in the minibuses to RHS Wisley. Once there, 3E were ‘Plant Hunters’ in their workshop, led by one of the Wisley team. They took their own cutting from a Tradescantia plant and potted it up in compost, before exploring various plants…