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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…

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 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…

While the pool is having essential work carried out, we have been having fun teaching the Pre-Prep to Year 5 children “dry” swimming (no towel required!) We have been starting with a warm-up with gentle stretching, followed by speed and stamina building, including swimming stroke technique and practice, finishing with a cool down and breathing…

Never before have I had such a full kitchen of cooks on a Saturday! Simplicity was the key as each group only had an hour to prepare, cook and clear up. We had a mellow start with the Year 7 and 8s building up to a frenetic finale with the Year 4s! However, the results…

On a glorious Tuesday afternoon, the Vinehall Venturers dusted off some of the school tents and set about constructing them in teams.  The children learned the names of the parts of the tent and that not all lightweight tents feed their poles through the inner of the tent as they were first expecting! There was…

Year 3 pupils worked silently on their homage to Van Gogh. Using their experience of brush control and practising the ‘thick and thin’ method, they created images with expressive and directional lines. Their work is full of life and movement. Well done. Tracey Konyu Year 3 and 4 Street Art Taking inspiration from the London…

The relief of actually being back in the classroom is only somewhat tempered by the possibility of another lock-down hanging over us like the sword of Damocles … And although the serried ranks of pupils facing forwards at individual desks when they can must be reassuringly familiar, there has been remarkably little disruption to the…

It is always hugely exciting and rewarding when a lesson goes exactly how the teacher hopes and Thursday’s drama with 5PW made Mrs A’s little heart sing!  The children were focused and hard-working, supportive of each other and incredibly creative.  After two introductory sessions, they embarked on Chapter 1 of the novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’, through…

How to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem to Year 8?  Paper and Starburst of course!  The theorem states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side) is the sum of the square of the other two sides, but could the children be accurate enough to prove it works?  First they had to…