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For some reason the Vinehall bees have a bad reputation. That may have to do with the fact that each one of the 40,000 or so in the colony sports a sting and that they show their displeasure at being disturbed by strimmers and other noisome machinery by coming out in force but, as we…

Saturday was a perfect day for revision – we did intermittent revision slots between playing outside and swimming and managed to miss the rain. The children were very good at settling down to prep and revision; a few commented that it is so much easier when everyone has to do the same thing.  I recently…

What a busy and wonderful week we have had! When I arrived on Monday morning I had quite a shock!  As I walked into my classroom I was amazed to find Emperor Hadrian sitting on my step.  What a delightful and funny way to start the week.  Thank you Sebastian – I love him and…

Reception invited us over to visit their Dinosaur Museum as it links with the Year 3 Learning Journey topic ‘In the beginning’. But … Where did Reception go? As Year 3 walked into their classroom they were met with named displays and instructions to “push the button”. Year 3 did and were amazed that up…

The Vinehall community came together today to take our whole school photo. After previous years there were many anxious glances heavenward to see what the weather Gods were going to send us but thankfully the sun shone and the rain that has persisted all week stayed away. After standing still for such a long time…

IAPS Shooting Competition The Vinehall shooting team travelled to the West London Shooting School for the annual IAPS shooting competition last Friday.  The team competed in three age categories: U11, U12 & U13. With over 200 competitors from all over the country, the standard of shooting was very high.  All the boys can be very…

Year 4 welcomed some unusual visitors to the De Beer block this week – two lambs! Mr D (father of Rosie, 4P) very kindly brought in the young lambs and introduced them to us.  The lambs were surprisingly tame and lots of the children enjoyed holding them and watching them as they explored their new…

On Monday Year 3 spent a glorious morning on the beach at Pett, led by a local geologist, Ken Brooks.  The children were held spellbound as they watched him hammer bone bed they had found themselves, to discover fossilised shark’s teeth, fish eyes and bivalves.  They learnt that dinosaurs had roamed these areas millions of…

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…

Vinehall Ski Trip 2019 Passo Tonale, Italy ‘Let it snow’ and it really did!  I haven’t seen that much snow in years.  We arrived to a very patchy, green ski resort and left a white wonderland.  It really is so pretty when there has been a large snow fall and great fun. Our first few…