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Years 3-5 were given a Christmas treat on Tuesday afternoon by way of a Christmas party!  There was Christmas music, Christmas hats, Christmas chocolate (well, just chocolate), Christmas food … you get the idea! The children danced in a game of musical statues, rolled dice and put on hats and gloves to eat chocolate and…

Oh what a night!  Our lovely Year 8s were in their finery on Thursday evening, the girls looking stunning in their beautiful dresses and the boys very dapper in their dinner jackets.  There was huge excitement as they gathered in the Front Hall for drinks and canapés, hundreds of photos and polite chatter with the…

The school is delighted to announce that we have regained our Gold Award for Housekeeping.  Vinehall has been part of the CAP Awards programme for a number of years; this gives us the opportunity to be assessed under strict conditions whilst also being compared to a national benchmarking database which tracks our performance and establishes…

It was that time of year again when the Drawing Room is transformed into the most magical of shopping experiences. The children arrived clutching shopping lists and bags with eyes full of wonder as they travelled from the front hall into Father Christmas’s grotto. The great man himself had also managed to take time from…

The changing seasons during the Michaelmas term provide a wealth of musical opportunities and form the basis of so much of our repertoire.  We shared our Harvest celebrations with a huge audience of grandparents who listened to the children’s performances of ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’, ‘Sing of the Lord’s Goodness’, The Parable of…

For the last two weekends the U13, U11 and U10 gymnasts have competed at the ISGA National 2 Piece Championships which were held at the Royal Masonic School in Hertfordshire and the IAPS National Championships at Kent College Pembury. The U13 team were first to compete at the 2 Piece Championships.  Ottoline G, Daisy F,…

Following the 2018-2019 academic year FOV were delighted to send over £3000 to Rwanda Aid as our chosen international charity.  This is money raised from the various events that have taken place at Vinehall over the year, including the Secrets Room and Summer Fete. We have received this response from David Chaplin, a former Headmaster…

Set 8S have been studying Romeo and Juliet in class, so when we found out that a version of the ballet was being screened in Hawkhurst, we had to go. Director Matthew Bourne brought his visionary mixture of modern dance and classical ballet to Prokofiev’s piece, and set it in modern times in a mental…

This week it was the turn of the girls to travel to St Andrew’s school in Eastbourne for their annual cup competition. With competitors from Bede’s, Brighton College and, of course, St Andrew’s the Vinehall girls knew they would have to put in some gigantic performances to win back the cup that was “lost” last…

Cookery club is always extremely popular with boarders and day children alike. This Saturday, still full of Firework fever, the children made Bonfire cakes using flakes of chocolate to represent logs with red, yellow and orange gel for flames. Wednesday’s children made chicken, vegetable and noodle stir-fry. Annabel Newcomb