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Sports Day 2018 – Afternoon Update

Things were hotting up this afternoon on and off the pitch at our 2018 sports day event but the games were decidedly water based so everyone kept cool. After much deliberation and point checking by our judges the results were announced. This year’s fancy dress trophy was awarded to Class KW with their Cluedo themed […]

Sports Day 2018

Sports Day 2018 started this morning in a riot of colour as our class teams took to the sports pitch for the fancy dress parade. The theme this year is classic board games and our class teams have gone above and beyond to produce some stunning fancy dress. It was a hard task for judges […]

Boccia England Coach of the Year 2018

Huge congratulations to Martin Cook our Senior Physical Activities Assistant on winning Boccia England’s Coach of the Year Award 2018. Martin collected the award on Monday at a ceremony in Plymouth. Martin is passionate about providing sporting opportunities for our students and this award is richly deserved. The award was given as part of Boccia […]

National Sports Week at VEC – Day Five

It’s Grand Prix time and as the sun continued to shine down our students were on the course early to get a feel for the conditions. As usual competition was fierce and because of the weather there were a few more pit stops than usual. To help set the scene our special guests for the […]

National Sports Week at VEC – Day Four

Day 4 of National Sport Week, and we’ve had a chance to catch our breath as the school took part in a giant version of the board game Frustration. We welcomed Steve and Shelby from Exmoor Zoo who brought a whole menagerie of creatures to amaze and delight our students with. After lunch we met […]

National Sports Week at VEC – Day Three

Engarde! National Sports Week Day 3 and it was fencing and team games this morning. Students are being coached by Alan Sheriff from the British Disabled Fencing Association and are really enjoying the chance to spar with each other. We are also staging throwing events and on the sports pitch its team games with Simon […]

National Sports Week at VEC – Day Two

National Sports Week continues and today it was handball in the sunshine with Coach Liz Roberts from Poole Phoenix. The students loved this fast paced sport which had been adapted for our wheelchair users. Map reading and exploring in the grounds made for a fantastic activity as the students tried their hands at orienteering. ‘Balloon […]

National Sports Week at VEC – Day One

National Sport Week Day one and what a beautiful day to kick off a week of sporting activities at Victoria. Racket sports have featured heavily this morning with Tennis, Squash and Badminton sessions run by top coaches. Students had the opportunity to try Table Cricket and there was a Motor Activity Training Program session held […]

CN Trip to Calvert Trust – Day Four

The pupils on the CN Calvert Trust residential trip have enjoyed their final full day of activities. They got in touch to fill us in on what they have been up to… Today we went canoeing which was loads of fun and we had lots of laughs splashing each other! Two teams competed and after […]

CN Trip to Calvert Trust – Day Three

The CN Calvert Trust Residential trip group are still having a fantastic time. Ali Dougal has sent through the latest details of their exploits from Wednesday. Enjoy…! This morning started with Amar saying “This is even cooler than they told me it was!”. Our day started with horse riding, which was “epic”, with Charlotte and […]