Archive Monthly Archives: February 2017
Wessex Warriors
During half term Wessex Warriors, the Victoria based Powerchair football team, were invited to the 2017 Dorset FA Volunteer Awards where they received an award for being an outstanding Dorset football club. The award recognises every aspect of the club and the opportunities it provides, and they were honoured to have been nominated for it. […]
Read moreWelcome back!
We’ve welcomed back our staff and students today and are really looking forward to the next seven weeks or so and the run up to Easter. We hope you all had a great week wherever and whatever you were doing. This half term kicks off with our Makaton sign for this week which is ‘Good […]
Read moreSouth west open youth orchestra
Congratulations to VEC students Amar Chidziva, Sam Bird and Daniel Standhaft on their amazing achievement of all being accepted into the South West Open Youth Orchestra programme. They will undertake a series of workshops with professional musicians as mentors and when they are ready will be part of the residential opportunities and performances of the […]
Read moreEaster Bunny Run
Our good friends the CanAm Car Club has organised a an Easter drive out on Saturday 25th March visiting the school at approximately 12 o’clock for tea/coffee and bacon butties. They will be bringing Easter eggs and toys for our students; it would be great if some of you could pop along to join us.
Read moreBagpipes stir through VEC
Victoria reverberated to the stirring sound of the pipes this morning as Class CN learned about St Andrew’s Day. The theme for this term is ‘celebration’ and Class CN have been looking at how and why we celebrate National Saint’s Days. St Andrew’s Day was chosen as a topic by class students Abbie Graham and […]
Read moreMusic Teachers Awards 2017
Yesterday evening Belinda Ellicott, Mike Whitlock and Aaron Gregory attended the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence ceremony at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in London Park Lane. These awards celebrate excellence within music education and are the flagship awards for the sector. This year saw a record number of nominations. Mike Whitlock was nominated alongside four […]
Read moreBamboozle Performance at VEC
Yesterday we were very lucky to be visited by Bamboozle productions who performed an enchanting version of The Gentle Giant by Michael Morpurgo. Bamboozle Theatre Company was founded in 1994 by Christopher Davies and Sue Pyecroft, since then they have been delivering magical, memorable, multi-sensory experiences for children and young people with moderate to profound […]
Read moreNumber Day
On our Number Day! our staff and students were crunching those numbers right across the school. We were using numbers in lots of different ways from measuring ingredients for cooking, to singing number songs in our Ukulele club and quizzes for staff and students. Class CN won a million points in their ‘who wants to […]
Read moreDisrespect NoBody Campaign
The Home Office has launched the second phase of its ‘Disrespect NoBody’ campaign today. The aim of the campaign is to prevent young people, both boys and girls aged 12 to 18 years old from becoming perpetrators and victims of abusive relationships. TV adverts are being screened tonight and a website has been set up […]
Read moreSafer Internet Day 2017
This year’s national safer internet day is on Tuesday 7th February and Dorset’s Safer Schools and Communities Team (SSCT) have just released their spring newsletter. It’s full of really useful information to help keep our children safe online and well worth a read. Victoria will be actively marking the day by running security awareness activities […]
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