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Arts Award Good Practice Centre.
We are pleased to announce that Victoria Education Centre has been selected as an Arts Award Good Practice Centre. This is a significant achievement for us and the assessors were really impressed with our application. The Arts and Cultural officer said that, ‘we are very much looking forward to working with you over the course […]
Read moreSteve Wallis Presentation
Following on from the previous post, we had the pleasure of meeting and thanking Steve Wallis in person today when he popped in to present us with the £900 he raised on his Alps D’Huez challenge. Principal Simon Brown and Horizons Manager Emma Whiting were on hand to accept the money on behalf of the […]
Read moreThe Intrepid Steve Wallis
The intrepid Steve Wallis (Georgia’s Dad) has undertaken an arduous cycling challenge on behalf of Victoria and our Horizon’s Post 19 group. Steve’s goal was to ride the challenging Alp D’Huez in the central French Alps. As you can imagine you cannot take on this challenge without some serious preparation and training. You can read […]
Read moreAlvin the puppy
Many of you will be aware of our links with Canine Partners, a national charity providing assistance dogs for people with physical disabilities, and will know that Graham Elliott (a ‘Puppy Parent’ for Canine Partners) regularly visits us with his current puppy in training. Back in June we said goodbye to Hannah, a black Labrador […]
Read moreStreetwise Event
In an ever more technologically connected world it is important that we can safeguard our children and young people. As part of our staff training for the beginning of this term we undertook a day’s course of CEOP and CSE training which raised our awareness and equipped us to recognise the signs, and help prevent, […]
Read moreInternational School Award
We are very pleased to let you all know that Victoria has now achieved full accreditation in the British Council International School awards. Higher than our intermediate award which we posted here last February. The assessors commented on our application and we have included some quotes below: “This is an excellent Impact Evaluation and clearly […]
Read moreTubs 4 Tablets
Victoria has just registered for this year’s Tubs4Tablets collection run by Tesco/Flora. From September to November you can find the Tubs4Tablets tokens inside Flora 500g original, Buttery and Light promotional tubs. We would be really grateful if you would lend us a hand to collect as many of these as possible. For each 50 tokens […]
Read moreDorset Architectural Heritage Week
Tomorrow marks the start of the Dorset Architectural Heritage Week and it is well worth a look. There is a whole week and weekend of FREE activities timetabled including a young visitor’s art and photography competition with cash prizes. For full details and information on all the planned open days and free guided tours around […]
Read moreNuts Challenge
Adventurous nurses Hollie Adams, Liz Lee, Billie Halls and Diane Kennedy have just taken part in the NUTS challenge in Surrey. The challenge consisted of a gruelling 7K race over an army style obstacle course with loads of mud thrown in for good measure. Hollie said “We are pleased we completed the challenge with no […]
Read moreOutstanding Ofsted Report
It’s official, we are OUTSTANDING! As you know our two day Ofsted inspection took place on 25-26th June and we are delighted to be recognised as an outstanding provision. Ofsted judged Victoria Education Centre as outstanding in all areas. We are absolutely thrilled that our integrated approach to education, therapy and care enables students to […]
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