Sports News | Livability

Calvert Trust Day One

A group of students from Class CN have travelled to the Calvert Trust Outdoor Adventure Centre in Exmoor, and have been in touch to tell us about how their visit has started… All students have settled in well and enjoyed exploring the centre. Sophie particularly enjoyed socialising with the other students that are there. They […]

VEC at the South-West Table Cricket Finals

Our students performed really well in a close competition in Exeter last Friday during the South-West Table Cricket Finals in Exeter. They won two and lost two matches. Overall our team finished in 6th place which is a fine achievement given that this competition was open to the whole of South-West England. We did come […]

George’s Marvellous Marathon

This Sunday The London Marathon is taking place and one of our students is looking forward to a very special day. George is taking part in the 5k Mini Marathon and is hoping to beat the time he set last year of 21 minutes. He has been training hard and will have to leave at […]

#TeamLivability Bournemouth Marathon Festival

Places are available in #TeamLivability at this year’s Bournemouth Marathon Festival which is taking place on Saturday 5th October 2019. For full details and if you would like to be sent more information on taking part, please click the link below. Click here for more information

Boccia in Exeter

As posted, we sent two teams to the South West Boccia Finals in Exeter last Friday. The students performed admirably, playing superb attacking and defending shots. Overall both teams won one match and lost two each which means that we will not be progressing to Sheffield for the National Finals. However, all students have competed at […]

Victory in Table Cricket

We are very pleased to announce that our table cricketers were victorious in both of their matches yesterday and qualified to represent Dorset in the South-West Finals later in April. The team batted superbly and scored over 300 runs in their final match and this was backed up with some alert fielding to enable the […]

The Lord Taverner’s Dorset Table Cricket Championships at VEC

We welcome students and staff from Winchelsea and Corpus Christi schools today for a fixture in the Lords Taverner’s Dorset Table Cricket Championships. The winners from today’s matches will progress to represent Dorset in the South-West championships. We also welcome Dorset Disabled Cricket Umpire and England player Josh Courtenay who is officiating.

Pergins Trip to the Vitality Stadium

As posted yesterday, a group of our students visited the Vitality Stadium as part of their Sports Leaders Module. The students visited the home and away changing rooms, the media suite, and sat in the home team dug-out. Here the students were presented with their certificates. We would like to thank Hannah, Jordan and Katie […]

Pergins trip to AFC Bournemouth

A group of students from our Pergins class are visiting AFC Bournemouth today for a tour of their stadium in Kings Park. During the first half of this term we welcomed Hannah, Katie and Jordan of AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust, who ran a Sports Leaders module here at the school. This trip is part […]

Wheelchair Rugby at VEC

We were delighted to welcome Adam and Stuart from Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby today. They will be joining us to run lunchtime sessions, introducing the sport over the next five weeks. The sessions, which have been organised through The Lords Taverners, kicked off today with passing skills.