Category: Trips

If you have not visited Bexhill Museum yet, it is well worth a trip.  Year 3 enjoyed a fascinating morning discovering more about Ancient Egypt.  The curator, Julian, is an expert on this topic.  After his interesting introduction with artefacts to see close up, there were three activities: designing a mask, decoding hieroglyphs dressed as…

Earlier this week the Vinehall Chamber Choir visited the Conquest Hospital in Hastings to perform a selection of carols. The children sang beautifully under the Rose window and their performance was enjoyed by many of the patients and their families. This performance was an excellent prelude to the Carol Service which takes place at St…

Year 3 popped out to visit Mountfield Church this week, as part of their exploration into local history.  They were lucky enough to have a tour and talk by Jackie Spriggs, organist and former vicar’s wife.  Harold Spriggs was also Vinehall school chaplain and their son was a pupil here many years ago.  Jackie is…

EAL Trip to the Tower of London On Tuesday Louise Payne and I took the EAL children on a cultural trip to the Tower of London.  Danny and George kindly dropped us off at Robertsbridge station, where we took the train to London Bridge.  From there we took a very pleasant but chilly walk to…

After a very early start on Friday (Mrs Payne and Mr Borrows woke us from the boarding house at 2am!), sixteen Vinehall children made their way to Gatwick airport for a 6am flight to Naples. When we left England it was pouring with rain and then as we flew over the Alps we saw snow…

Year 7 spent Tuesday at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, having a tour of the galleries including Allan Grainger’s photography exhibition, “Downland Gloaming”.  Grainger is a local photographer whose moody shots of the local landscape on the South Downs capture the magical essence of dusk, the time between day and night. The focus of…

On Wednesday morning Year 5 went to Bridgepoint in Rye to look at the Hastings Tapestries Project. These are 27 panels made in 1966 by the Royal Society of Embroiderers, which represent 900 chronological years of British history from 1066 to 1966.  We were all very impressed by the tapestries; they are incredibly intricate and well…

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…

On Tuesday, we launched the Year 7 theme of Conflict by taking the children to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.  The children began by exploring the decks of HMS Victory, undoubtedly the Navy’s most famous warship having served as Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.  We started the tour in the open air on the Quarter…

Year 7 trip to Normandy, France 10-14th June 2019 We started from school at 5.30am in the rain, aiming for the fast ferry to Cherbourg at 9.00am.  We took a wrong turning and got caught in rush hour traffic on the M25, so missed our crossing and had to be booked onto the 2.45pm Brittany…