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Duke of Edinburgh Gold Success

Our Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award students 2017 went to St James’ Palace London yesterday to be presented with their awards. Around 600 young people and family members attended the event where they met HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and share stories about their D of E adventures. Everyone looked really smart and were […]

A kind donation from Atlas Elektronik UK

A huge Victoria thanks to John Sutcliffe, Business Development Director and Sarah Kirlew, Marketing Manager from Atlas Elektronik UK who visited yesterday to present a cheque for £2000. The donation is going towards funding five students in their bid for the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. The students will be heading to the USA in […]

Swimathon 2019

Fundraising efforts are gathering pace for this summer’s Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award expedition to America. Senior Physical Activity Assistant Ali Dougal has been instrumental in organising events and last weekend a Swimathon was held in conjunction with Poole Lions. Victoria entered four teams who each swam for one hour. That’s a total of 426 […]

Boccia Inclusion League – 30/1/19

Yesterday Victoria welcomed Winchelsea, Longfleet, Oakdale, Allenbourn and St Joseph’s schools for the next round of matches in the Boccia Inclusion League. The Inclusion League enables our students to compete with mainstream students in a fun but competitive league which also goes a long way in strengthening our ties with other schools in the area. […]

AFC Bournemouth Community Sports at VEC

2019 is off to an active start as the AFC Bournemouth Community team joined us this afternoon to launch their partnered schools PE programme and to run some PE and sports activities with our Pergins students. These sessions will also benefit our Sports Leadership students who are aiming to complete the football module. Huge thanks […]

Sports Assembly Winter 2018

We held our end of term sports assembly yesterday which is our opportunity to congratulate all the students who have excelled in sports over the term/year. We have had so much to celebrate this year with successes in Boccia, Table Cricket, Swimming and Athletics. We were also awarded the School Games Gold Award which is […]

More from the Dorset Leadership Academy

Esther, Sophie and Elisha attended the Dorset Leadership Academy at Bryanston School yesterday to join the organising committee for The Dorset School Games. They were awe struck with the guest keynote speaker, London 2012 Paralympic athlete Aaron Phipps. He gave an inspiring talk about his journey to get into the Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby Team […]

Dorset Leadership Academy and Young Ambassador Conference

Three of our students attended The Dorset Leadership Academy and Young Ambassador Conference at Bryanston School yesterday. The purpose of this event wass to further develop leadership skills in disabled and non-disabled young people and inspire them to lead and volunteer in sport. Elisha, Esther and Sophie had a great day meeting their peers from […]

UV-PE!

This half term we have transformed some PE lessons into a sensory experience by using fluorescent equipment. Classes Green Island, HN and BK have taken part. The students have enjoyed warm ups using a glow in the dark parachute with shiny stars. In lessons, students have challenged themselves to glow in the dark sporting challenges […]

Dorset Step Into Sport Inclusion Event

Victoria welcomed Paralympic athlete and Sky Sports presenter Kate Grey at the Dorset Step into Sport inclusion event today and played host to schools from across Dorset. The purpose of this event was to further develop leadership skills in disabled and non-disabled young people and inspire them to lead and volunteer in sport. It was […]