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Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero

Massive congratulations to former VEC student and PE volunteer Gemma Mitchell, who was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2018 Unsung Hero Award for the South region last night. Gemma runs Victoria Community Boccia Club here at the school, a club that welcomes anyone with a disability in the local area to come […]

21 November 2018 –Bournemouth University and AFC Bournemouth Table Cricket Inclusion League at Winchelsea School

The first fixture of the Inclusion League took place at Winchelsea School yesterday and we took six eager members from our Table Cricket squad. There were five schools participating and we played all of them in a mini-league. I am delighted to announce that we were victorious with some excellent game play, and proudly received […]

School Games Mark Gold Award

You may remember that just before the summer holiday this year our school was awarded the Gold School Games Mark for our commitment to sports provision for the students at Victoria Education Centre. The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme that rewards schools for their commitment in developing competition. Yesterday the Poole […]

Adam’s Incredible Mascot Experience

On Saturday 3rd November, our local Premier League football team AFC Bournemouth faced Manchester United at the Vitality Stadium. The match sadly finished in a 2-1 win for Manchester United, with Marcus Rashford finding the net deep into injury time. Although the result will have left Bournemouth fans disappointed, the match was a terrific experience […]

14 November 2018 – Beat the Street at Victoria Education Centre

We were extremely lucky to have Gemma McDonald from Intelligent Health Dorset visit our school yesterday with four Beat the Street Boxes to enable our students to participate throughout. It was great to see our students tapping their cards on a glorious sunny autumn day. There was a fantastic community spirit and lovely to see […]

1 November 2018 – Dorset School Games Boccia Competition at Queen Elizabeth’s School – Double Dorset County Champions

Victoria entered three teams into the Lord Taverners Dorset School Games Boccia Competition held at Queen Elizabeth’s School Wimborne yesterday. Twenty five teams from schools across Dorset took part and our students were certainly up for the day’s sporting challenges producing some superb play. All of our teams remained unbeaten throughout the day over 15 […]

Aviva Community Fund – We need your help!

We need your help! We have been accepted as a possible beneficiary of the Aviva Community Fund for our bid for The Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award next year. We need to secure as many votes as possible. All you have to do is click on the link below….it’s really quick and easy to do! […]

National Boccia Day Success

We had some fantastic sporting news yesterday! Following our fantastic celebration of Boccia throughout the Sports Department a couple of weeks ago, Boccia England got in touch to notify us that we are joint winners of the competition from the day! The day comprised a number of inter-group tournaments, overseen by the PE department and […]

Beat the Street

I want to introduce you to an exciting physical initiative that is happening in Poole and other parts of the county over the next month called ‘Beat the Street’. Beat The Street is a fun way of encouraging people to get out and about in their communities and with support from Public Health Dorset and […]

15 October 2018 – Pergins Sport Leaders working with Longfleet Students

Our magnificent students from Pergins helped lead a PE session to students from Longfleet School. The students all had fun taking part in a parachute warm up game that involved keeping the foam balls on the parachute. If the ball fell off students were able to choose if they wanted to go under the parachute […]