Category: The Arts

A big thank you to Eastbourne College for providing an excellent day of arty activities. Taking a group of Vinehall students, our visit started with a great lunch to fuel our workers and then a look at the Towner Gallery exhibits and the very colourful exterior of the gallery by Gotz.  There was a collection…

Year 8 Art Trip To The Hastings Contemporary / Phase 2 During the Summer Term, half of our present Year 8 pupils attended a visit to the ‘Jerwood Gallery’.  Now called ‘The Hastings Contemporary’, the gallery offered a tour and an artist’s workshop by the illustrator Ed Boxall. The pupils were asked to consider the…

Battle Abbey School had the genius idea of setting an eco-design challenge.  The ‘Sustainable Us’ art competition was held for the first time this year and is set to be a regular event at the school. The standard was very high and our pupils’ work stood up well against the competition. The atmosphere was tense…

Bluebells “A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.” So writes Dianna Wynne Jones in her novel, “Wizard’s castle”.  At Vinehall, in the woods on the edge of our grounds, we are lucky to have beautiful bluebell woods in bloom right now. Year 4 have been exploring the bluebell…

A selection of our senior artists embarked on a fantastic day of creativity, set in Eastbourne. The first stop was a delicious lunch at Eastbourne College where Vinehall pupils met Jayne Harriott, the Head of Art. We were given a tour of their excellent facilities and bumped into a few familiar faces from previous years….

During the Summer Term, Vinehall artists created their own flip-flops  from recycled materials. The theme given to them was ‘The Ocean’. It quickly became apparent that it is very difficult not to use plastic.  However, all pupils rose to the challenge by creating some eye-catching footwear from recycled carpet underlay made from old plastic bottles….