Archive Monthly Archives: April 2018

25 April 2018 – Inclusion League Sitting Volleyball at Victoria

Our students proudly represented Victoria in the latest stage of the inclusion league sitting volleyball that was hosted here at Victoria last Wednesday. The students had constant smiles and gave their all for the afternoon. Seven schools attended the event and that meant that over 50 contestants were participating on the day. Well done everyone […]

George Fripp’s London Mini Marathon

Congratulations to Victoria student George Fripp who successfully took part in this year’s London Mini Marathon. George completed the race in his best ever 5K time of 21.13 minutes putting him in 6th place for his group, the under 14s wheelchair. He thoroughly enjoyed the experience and wants to enter again next year. Victoria is […]

License to Learn

Our wonderful dance teacher and music leader, Belinda Ellicott wrote a fantastic article for the latest edition of SEN Magazine on the importance of Performing Arts for children with Special Educational Needs. The article has recently been added to their website and can be found at the following link: https://senmagazine.co.uk/home/articles/senarticles-2/licence-to-learn  

London Marathon 2018

This year’s London Marathon, which took place last weekend, was officially the hottest on record with temperatures reaching 24.1C (75.3F). This made an already difficult race into something altogether more challenging. More than 40,000 runners took part but Victoria was cheering on two very special runners, Hannah Gilling and Matt Sutton. Hannah completed the race […]

Yoga/Mindfulness Experience

Victoria Education Centre’s Wildlife Habitat Pond

Thankfully the sun has finally made an appearance over the last couple of days and our wildlife habitat pond is starting to burst with life. Newts and Tadpoles have been spotted by the students and there are also reports of the sighting of a small frog! Our sensory club have also been using this area […]

NHS Dorset Survey

We have been contacted by the NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group who are aiming to improve their physical health services for children. In order to do this successfully they need to know what children, young people and their parents and carers think of their current service provision. If you could spare a little time and […]

Tesco Bags of Help Voting starts in May

We are very pleased to report that our application to the Tesco Bags of Help Grant Scheme has been successful and our fundraising project will be put forward to a customer vote in Tesco stores during this coming May and June 2018. Bags of Help is Tesco’s exciting local community grant scheme where money raised by […]

Victoria Community Boccia Club Quiz Night – 24/4/18

Why not come along and join us for an evening of fun! We are holding a Quiz and a special version of Play Your Cards Right. Cakes will be available at 50p each (with gluten free option) but please bring your own drinks. It will be teams of six or less on the night and […]

London Marathon Fundraising for Victoria

As well as supporting Matt Sutton at this Sunday’s London Marathon we will also be cheering on Hannah Gilling (Daughter of our Head of Speech and Language Therapy, Sarah). Hannah is running for Livability but has asked that the money she raises goes to our canopy appeal. The canopy appeal has been set up to […]