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End of Victoria’s Fantasy Football Season

Victoria’s fantasy football season has just drawn to a close and what a season it’s been! Mirroring the premier league for drama, three teams were in contention for the staff title right up until the last day. The student’s competition was equally exciting with six students vying for the title over the last month. In third […]

Victoria Summer Fayre 2014

We were surely blessed by the weather at the weekend as the sun shone down on our piratey themed Summer Fayre. As you will see from the photos there was fancy dress galore, some staff members received soakings while the stalls were busy selling everything from cakes to crafts. Everyone had a wonderful time and […]

Livability Honour VEC Staff

We are very pleased that two of our staff team who have made an outstanding contribution to Victoria over the past few years, Rehabilitation Engineer Chris Hooker and Head of Swimming Tracey Payne were both nominated for last year’s annual Princess Anne Awards held by Livability. Director of Community Engagement Adam Bonner came to us […]

Sport Relief 2014

Our students and staff have been going the extra mile for Sport Relief today with some sporty fund raising activities. The PE staff led a warm up aerobic session in the sports hall to get everyone limbered up and then, resplendent in red to mark the day, everyone took part in “walking a mile for […]

Pete Sammons – Bath Half Marathan

Here is an update to our previous post about the London Marathon preparations of Pete Sammons, who is running for us and Livability. With only four weeks to go Pete’s training is going really well. He mentioned in his interview with Harry, Ebony and Connor that he hoped to go under one and a half […]

World Book Day

Our World Book Day celebrations. The day started at 8.30am with Harry and Jon’s breakfast show on VIBE radio. Interesting booky facts and book chat culminating in a radio story broadcast all about Flat Stanley, a boy who is flattened by a notice board and then begins to see the advantages of being flat! Many […]

Victoria Education Centre Presents!

To celebrate the launch of “Friends of Victoria” Victoria Education Centre presents an evening with The Bournemouth Jazz Orchestra “Unplugged”. The B.J.O. led by Tony Waller will present an informal evening of Jazz, Swing and Blues featuring many top big band musicians from the Solent area. Music from the libraries of the Buddy Rich, Duke […]

Pete Sammons Interview

You may remember a previous post when we told you that former head of Nursing and Therapy Carol Sammons son Pete had chosen Livability/Victoria as his chosen charity for his London Marathon challenge. Well, Pete has popped into Victoria and… graciously agreed to be interviewed by some of our GCSE students to be broadcast on […]

Harry Paye Day

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a great half term and we thank all those that had to work through. The second half of this term is now underway and we are really looking forward to it. Some of the highlights include another visit by the brilliant seen but seldom heard poets, world […]

Running the London Marathon

Running the London Marathon and flying the flag for Livability this year is Pete Sammons son of former Head of Nursing and Therapy Carol Sammons. Pete Writes….. Hello I am the younger son of Carol Sammons, who some of you will remember as …Head of Therapy and Nursing at VEC for 24 years until she […]