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March
2015
VEC life
Termly Newsletter of news and events for parents, our patrons and supporters.
News In Brief
Thank you to Keith Miller
and the staff of The
Co-Operative in
Southbourne for collecting
for us over the past year.
They have raised a
fantastic 550 which will go
towards purchasing
equipment for our
hydrotherapy pool.
Explorers raised 83.45 for
our school toilet twinning
initiative. Tasty treats were
sold over one break time
much to the delight of the
staff!
Victorias toilet twinning
appeal has raised a grand
total of 341.65. Well done
to Jen Williams, her team
and everyone who helped
raise this money. The
money will go to improving
sanitary conditions for those
in desperate poverty.
61 was raised for FOVEC
by a Valentines raffle run by
Chris on reception.
FOVEC are planning a craft
Fayre this year to take
place on Saturday 13th
June. Details are a little
sketchy at the moment but
it will be on our all weather
pitch weather permitting.
For the full details keep an
eye on our Facebook page.
Foreword
Magic, Technology
and Progress... By Kate Baldwin
As this Spring term comes to an end we can look
back on a very busy and productive couple of
months and look forward to the Easter break!
We have enjoyed a wide variety of events over the
term including another great performance by the
English Touring Opera who returned with
Waxwings, an interactive opera about a young boy
who loved birds. We celebrated World Book Day in
style and as a legacy we now have some amazing
Storysacks produced by the classes. Students in
Furzey class had a fantastic life skills opportunity
when Morebus provided us with a stationary bus at
school so that the students could practice boarding,
leaving, and familiarize themselves with the process
of travelling by bus.
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Noahs Ark
Pergins
Jack and
The Beanstalk
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The
Report
Regional Boccia
Alex Elliot, Liam Drummond, Sophie Pritchett
and Abi Punchard all went down to Exeter
for the regional boccia tournament. Well
done to all the students that took part and in
particular to Alex and Liam who have
qualified for the national boccia competition.
England V France
On the 21st of March we took a trip up to
Twickenham to watch the last of the games
in the Six Nations. It was a thrilling day, with
all the other teams playing before us we
knew that England needed to beat France
by 26 points or more to win! It was a great
game with 12 tries being scored in total, the
final score was England 55France 35 and
was a day that was enjoyed by everyone!!!!!!
Powerchair Football
An exciting weekend of powerchair football took
place here at Victoria in March in partnership with
the WFA. The weekend saw lots of students
taking part in both a coaching wheelchair football
award and a taster day. We were joined by
Swindon Rockets PFC and Portsmouth PFC for
the taster day. The event was a complete
success and everybody involved had an
absolutely great time. The event has sparked the
set up of a new powerchair football club, Wessex
Warriors PFC who will train here at Victoria every
first Saturday of the month between 2pm and
4pm.
Table Cricket
On 3rd February we had five teams
compete at table cricket, to get to the
regionals in Exeter in May. Our team did
really well in all the games and we won
them all. They all worked well as a team
and encouraged each other. Their batting
was on top form as they scored 358 in one
match. The mayor from Bournemouth
came to the event and also a representative from Lord Taverners. They came first
in our group and qualified for the regionals
in Exeter on the 14th May.
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Apps Amazing!
By Jon Godber
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iCommunicate
By Grembe Inc Price: 39.99
iCommunicate lets you design and customize such
things as visual schedules, storyboards,
communication boards, choice boards, flash cards,
and speech cards. The app provides text-to-speech
with 20 different voice options, and enables users to
include their own pictures and record their own
audio for boards. Includes 10,000+ N2Y SymbolStix
images and supports printing via AirPrint or email
boards.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible
with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Locabulary Pro
By Red Mountain Price: 99.99
Locabulary provides vocabulary to communicate quick
phrases, moods, and requests for assistance. The app
can be used for everyday communications, teaching,
or for fun. Locabulary Lite has expanded Category and
Phrase Settings. Users can create and link Location
Presets for points of interest to a category or bank of
phrases. The app speaks text-message abbreviations,
e.g. type "cul" and "See you later" is spoken. You can
also backup and save all phrase categories to a
remote Locabulary server.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. iPhone and iPad.
Predictable
Therapy Box LTD Price: 119.00
Predictable is an AAC app providing text-to-speech
and customizable functions with social media
integration. The app uses a word prediction engine
featuring integrated intelligent self-learning of new
words and contexts and easy-to-use category folders.
Users can compose and send email and SMS
messages, Tweets, and Facebook updates. It supports
switch access, including use of the entire screen as a
switch. The app is also accessible via Bluetooth switch
box.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with
iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Proloquo2Go
Assistive Ware Price: 169.99
Proloquo2Go is an award-winning symbol-supported
communication app providing a voice to over
100,000 individuals around the world who are unable
to speak.
Users can open Proloquo2Go and begin to use it for
effective communication immediately. Its also the
most widely used communication app here at
Victoria. First released in 2009, Proloquo2Gos
research-based vocabularies, highly customizable
features, natural sounding voices, and unique
innovations make it the premier Augmentative and
Alternative Communication (AAC) solution for
children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy,
Down syndrome, developmental disabilities,
apraxia, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible
with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
TapSpeak Choice
By Ted Conley: 129.99
TapSpeak Choice for iPad is a comprehensive
communication board and speech editor and player
designed to save setup and maintenance time. The
app supports the DynaVox PCS library as well as
user photos and images. Boards can contain from
one to 56 messages. The app offers 18 grid
dimensions and a dynamic layout that automatically
adjusts grid size as you add buttons. TapSpeak
Choice can use the iPad screen as a switch for
scanning to help users with limited motor skills. Because of consistent icon placement, users develop
a deep familiarity for the button taps for each word
and includes 101 pages with over 1700 buttons.
Available as an In-App Purchase or included in the
Plus version.
FAITH Group
Fond Farewells
Faith Group students and staff have said Goodbye to
Father Stephen, who leaves St Aldhelms Church for a
new ministry in Burton Bradstock. Father Stephen has
been a great encouragement and support to the school,
particularly for the school and FOVEC Carol Services,
and we thank him very much for this. He has never
visibly balked at the disruption to the Church caused by
us in the midst of the beautiful tree festival! Christmas
wont be the same without him!
Thinking of Festivals
Congratulations..
Our congratulations go to Lucy Rogers and husband Matt on the birth of their daughter Hannah ,
born on the 7th February 2015. Also birth congratulations go to Ewelina Jankowska and husband
Jarek on the birth of their son Oscar, born on the 23 rd March 2015.
Eco-School News
By Lisa Frett
away maybe you can park and walk the last bit
of the journey. Its good for you and the
environment! We would also like to thank
Eileen Rideouts husband Kevin for coming in
to look at our grounds. There are plans to make
a big bug hotel and he has begun work with
Class CN investigating species of plants and
animals in our grounds. This is going to be a
great addition to our new boardwalk/
woodland walk. Finally, a special thank you to
James Sargent for all his hard work emptying
everyones recycling bins. James has been
giving up his break times making sure all our
recycling goes in the right bin so if you see him
in the recycling area, please give him a hand.
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Body Language
Performance and Dance at VEC
With Belinda Ellicott
Students On Song
The Key Stage 4 and Post 16 Arts Award
groups made a recording of the BandAid single
Do They Know Its Christmas just in time to
sell for the holiday season. We are biased but
think it is the best version so far and the
students were raising money for the schools
toilet twinning project. There are still some
available priced 1 each, send your name and
money in an envelope with how many you want
for the attention of Belinda Ellicott. All proceeds
will go to the project to help a school in another
country.
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On The Buses
By Kathryn Webb
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By Margaret Humphreys
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For their GCSE Liam and Ebony were tasked to write letters to the editor in the voice of a person
from the Irish troubles. The Troubles refers to almost 30 years of violence between the
Nationalists (mainly Roman Catholic) who wanted independence from the UK and the unionists
(mainly Protestants) who believed in strengthening the political ties between Northern Ireland and
Britain. Armed paramilitary groups, including the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), made
Belfast a terrifying place to live between 1969 and 1997 and much of the violence took place
around the Protestant Shankill Road and Catholic Falls Road areas. The British government
claimed that its forces were in Northern Ireland to keep law and order, but Irish republicans
objected strongly to the presence of the British soldiers.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Liams Letter
the PIRA. Disappointed is an understatement.
I am writing to express my disgust for the atrocities that took place last Sunday. The majority
of my anger is aimed towards the British Army especially the first battalion parachute
regiment because of the enormous mistakes that were carried out on Sunday. The British
army somehow turned a peaceful march into chaos and tragedy.
I am Aiden McCarthy the catholic politician who was running the civil rights march. All I
and the majority of all Catholics wanted was a controlled and peaceful way to get out voices
heard but the British army and a few PIRA members think the best way to solve anything and
everything is through shouting and aggression. What baffles me is that Britain is the so called
birthplace of democracy but will not let Irish Catholics put their views forward, I think it is
wrong and hypocritical. All we want is a fair vote for every single catholic, and anyone who
so wishes to vote.
The day started off well, a great turn out of people wanting a peaceful march and everyone
was in high spirits. I really thought this march would be a turning point in the right direction.
During the march there was an army presence and our route had already been modified to
meet the demands of the British government and military.
There was a point during the march some yobos and members of the PIRA tried to stick to
the route original route and did throw some objects in the direction of the brits and I can see
why this would provoke a response from the soldiers but not with the pointless aggression
that they chose to use, I am saddened and outraged by these horrible events.
The horrible events I am talking about are the murder of 13 innocent people and 27 shot
overall. Many of these people children of 16 and 17, it beggars belief that these kids with a
future have had their lives cut short by the stupidity of the British soldiers. It is also heartbreaking that they simply lied to the media, lied to the public, lied to everyone!
I was in the hospital the evening of the tragedy, there were British soldiers all over the place
hiding the bodies but also hiding the truth. I was handed a piece of paper listing the numbers
and names of the deceased and injured. It stated 27 shot, 13 dead.
The march was not a success, far from it in fact and that rests on the shoulders of Para 1 and
Ebonys Letter
Dear Sir,
I am writing to tell everyone how bad bloody Sunday was, I was defending my
brother because he wanted a peaceful march. I had an argument with my parent
because I wanted to go on the march but they disagreed because I am too young.
I ran off to my bedroom pacing up and down looking out of the window listening for
news on the radio my brother died but I didnt believe it so I ran down to the hospital.
I told my family the news that my brothers dead. It destroyed my family mum got
depression, my dad had a drinking problem and a few months later ended up having a
divorce. My grades at school got lower. My opinion on bloody Sunday is
heartbreakingly unfair the army lied about having a peaceful march, IRA are bad but
what the army did was unacceptable. I blame Britain for trying to change our religion
by putting protestants in our country but IRA violence was unnecessary. I would like
a united Ireland regardless of religion. I dont think anything has changed but if so I
would like to reunite and have a referendum vote.
Yours sincerely
Judith Doyle
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