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International School Award

We are very pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Intermediate International School Award Certificate. The assessors commented on our application and have written: “This is an outstanding application and a credit to your school. It clearly demonstrates your commitment to international education and to wishing to embed the international dimension into your […]

Table Cricket

Congratulations to our brilliant table cricketers who have won the Dorset heat of the National Table Cricket Championships. The games were held at the Queen Elizabeth School in Wimborne and our players fought off some stiff competition to go through to the next round to be held on 14th May at Exeter University. Well done […]

Aesop's Touring Theatre Company

At the end of January Aesop’s Touring Theatre Company came to Victoria to perform their Tudor play about Henry the Eighth. Aesop’s Touring Theatre Company specialises in Theatre in Education, touring Schools, Children’s Centres, Art Centres and Theatres nationally throughout the year with plays and workshops specifically written and designed for Nursery, Infant and Junior […]

Branksome Station Access Campaign Gains Momentum

A student journalist from Bournemouth University’s online newspaper “The Breaker” has been in to interview our students and teacher Hilary Stewart on our ongoing campaign for disabled access to Branksome Station. Many thanks to Vania Goncalves for her time and efforts. You can hear the interview and read her article by following the link below. […]

Indoor Tobboganing

While Dan, Harry and Jacob were enjoying some indoor Skydiving our other intrepid group headed to the SkiPlex indoor ski slope which is housed in the same complex for some indoor tobboganing. Jacob, Amar and Spencer experienced the thrills and occasionally the spills of this fun sport as you will see. Again made possible by […]

Three Lucky Students

Three lucky students, Dan, Harry and Jacob went to visit Airkix in Basingstoke yesterday for what turned out to be an unforgettable experience. Funded by our friends Coles Miller and the Parkstone Golf Club the boys got the chance to experience indoor skydiving. Airkix use a wind tunnel that circulates air into a flight chamber. […]

Morgan Sindall

Steve Plumb and Ben Lyne from the Morgan Sindall Group came in last Wednesday to officially hand over some amazing equipment donated to one of our Children’s Home lounges. A state of the art smart HD 3D TV with a sound bar and a 3D Blue Ray player replete with four pairs of 3D glasses. […]

Merlin

Merlin’s Magic Wand is a worldwide charity whose aim is to put some magic back into the lives of seriously ill, disabled and disadvantaged children. They are currently on site transforming our swimming pool environment and changing rooms. More on this later but as a result of the links we have formed we were able […]

Eye Gaze at Victoria School

A short video made for fundraising highlighting how we are using Eye Gaze at Victoria Education Centre

Funds raised by The Co-Operative

We would like to thank Keith Miller and the staff of The Co-Operative in Southbourne for collecting for us over the past year. They have raised a fantastic £550 which will go towards purchasing equipment for our hydrotherapy pool. THANK YOU!