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We were delighted to be joined by Olympic Gold and Bronze medalist Helen Richardson-Walsh for a few hours on Tuesday afternoon. As part of our friendship with Gray Nicholls, Helen visited the school to meet with the senior girls’ hockey teams down on our astro. An informal chat took place, with our girls sharing their…

Thursday was national Poetry Day and to mark this occasion not only did rhyme, rhythm and verse blossom in each lesson, but the finals of the Poetry by Heart Competition took place in the theatre.  Judged by actor Susan Bowie (please see Susan’s biography below as we were very fortunate to have such an esteemed…

At Vinehall we have been joining in and celebrating No Pens Day with a variety of activities across all year groups and subjects. The children have really enjoyed the opportunity to use different skills and mediums to express their thoughts and absorb knowledge. English Year 4 have been creating playscripts from a chapter of the Horrid…

With threats of storms and gales throughout the week, there were many sighs of relief when the Friends of Vinehall arrived to finish setting up the Pet Show last Saturday.  All their hard work was worth it as all manner of animals, large and small, began to descend onto the Front Lawn. Despite the potential…

Six Vinehall Year 5 mathematicians travelled to St Andrew’s in Eastbourne for a maths challenge that saw them pitting their problem solving wits against lots of local schools. They tackled problems with tangrams, dominoes, timetables and many others, all with a time limit counting down on them. Despite the pressure all of the children did…

The aim of the Friends of Vinehall is two-fold – to host and support the social events that make up the Vinehall community and to raise money to support the school’s “wish list”, Rwanda Aid and local charities. The FOV committee is a friendly group of parents who meet once a half term to plan…

Screen time – how much do you compromise? Compromise has been our pastoral theme this week and during form time we have been discussing the various issues we have to compromise on at school.  5P and I have also been talking about how we try and compromise over the amount of screen time we are…

Thematic Curriculum – Conflict Following on from our trip to Portsmouth Historical Dockyard, the children will be learning more about Lord Nelson and HMS Victory later in the term.  However, we think it is essential that children’s understanding is based on a chronological narrative, so to begin the theme of Conflict we are returning to…

The last few weeks have been very busy indeed for the Friends of Vinehall and their ever supportive Class Reps. Following a request from Mr Powis to hold an end of anniversary year celebration, it was decided to put on the very first “VineFest” at the end of Sports Day. After the recent heavy rain…

Inter-House Capture the Flag 2019 Tuesday 2nd July saw Vinehall’s first ever inter-house Capture the Flag competition and goodness was it competitive! The aim of the day was to make as much money as we could for our three charities – Macmillan Cancer Research, the Red Cross and SUDC. All children in Years 3-8 were…