News and Events

Arts Award with Arcadia

A group of students participated in a really interesting Arts Award session today when we were lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Matt Askey, the special effects manager for Arcadia. Arcadia is a company that draws on talent from across the arts, theatre and circus disciplines, supporting cultural celebrations and iconic music festivals […]

Victoria Beat Boxing in running for award

Some of you may remember our project with beatboxer Dean Yhnell during Creative Arts Week back in July 2021. Dean performed for us as well as holding one to one sessions with four of our students. We are excited to report that this collaboration has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Music and Drama […]

Class Durdle’s Bear Building Adventure

Last week, Class Durdle enjoyed a really fun trip to Build a Bear in Bournemouth. Their host for the visit was Xeb who was really fun and engaging while going through all of the steps that they needed to build a bear. The students chose a bear and then listened to lots of different sounds […]

Victoria success at Poole Athletics Club Awards Ceremony

Many congratulations to students Holly, James, Daniel, Barney, Alex and George who, through their hard work and dedication have all won trophies at this year’s annual Poole Athletics Club awards ceremony. The awards recognise outstanding performance and endeavour in the various disciplines that the club is involved with and highlights improvement and dedication.

Green Island get Festive Decorating Christmas Trees

Class Green Island attended St Aldhelm’s Church this morning to decorate the Victoria School Christmas tree. Our tree is part of this year’s ‘Shining Branches Christmas Tree Festival’ taking place in the church. In all there are over 60 real trees on display decorated by the wider community in the Poole / Branksome area. All […]

Victoria Christmas Jumper Day 2021

A generous donation from Sporting Bears

We would like to say a massive thank you to ‘The Sporting Bears: Koalas’ for the fantastic donation of £1820 to FoVEC. The money was raised at the recent Classic Motor Show at the NEC Birmingham where the bears were offering dream rides to members of the public. As we are one of their named […]

James’s Athletics Success

Many congratulations to James from Class Brownsea who has been honoured by Poole Athletics Club as their athlete of the month. James has been recognised for great commitment to his weekly training sessions at the club. James was presented with a certificate and badge by Headteacher Mr Lawrence. James is hoping that all his hard […]

Victoria’s Children In Need Final Total

Great news, we raised a total of £246.02 last Friday for Children In Need, beating last year’s figure of £235.48. Well done everyone, and thank you all for your support.

Post-19’s New Water Feature

Students have placed a new water feature at the entrance to the Post 19 campus. It was chosen by student Charlotte who was really happy to see it placed among plants and shrubs which were planted a few weeks ago to reflect the start of their journey in Post 19 and their own personal growth. […]