Tomorrow (Friday) is the College’s Annual Service of Remembrance. If you would like to watch the Service live, please click on this link. The Service will commence at 10.35am and finish at 11.30am. As well as marking the two minute’s silence and several OVs commemorated, we are joined by Commander James Wallington-Smith RN (Commanding Officer, HMS Iron Duke) and our guest from the Royal Hospital Chelsea, John Cole. 

To enable parents to have a better idea of what our KS3 students are studying in their PSHE lessons and to spread these conversations out of the classroom and into the home, we would be delighted if you could adopt our dinner table discussions into your weekly schedule.

Each week there will be questions that you can ask your child, that will link into their learning from PSHE that week and hopefully prompt interesting conversations. This term in PSHE Y7 are exploring the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Y8 are exploring media literacy and Y9 are considering masculinity.

This week's questions:

Y7 - What are the main physical and emotional changes of puberty? How can this affect your relationships? What strategies could you use to cope? 

Y8 - How does UNICEF try to protect human rights around the globe? Are human rights more likely to be protected in a democracy? Why do you think this? 

Y9 - What does it mean to be a bystander? Why can it be difficult to act in line with your values about what is unacceptable when other people hold different views?  

The final school age flu catch up clinic has been rearranged for Saturday 11 November from 9am to 12pm at the Outpatients Department of the Hospital. All school aged children from Reception to Y11 who have not had their seasonal flu vaccination are eligible to attend.

• Sixth Form Open Evening - Tuesday 14 November
• Elevate Study Skills Session - Wednesday 22 November, register here
• 100 Men Aloud  - VCJ/VCP choirs and the Harmony Men, Thursday 23 November, 7pm. Register here. 
• Y9 Options Evening - Tuesday 28 November
• Careers Fair - Wednesday 29 November
• College Production - Victoria College's Nativity....Goes Wrong - Tuesday 5 & Wednesday 6 December
• A Christmas Cracker - Thursday 7 December. Register here. 
• Victoria College Orchestral Challenge Concert - Tuesday 12 December. Register here. 

Please refer to the school calendar for all up-to-date information surrounding events.

1. Parent/ Carer and Professional ADHD Support and Information 

The next meeting with parents/ carers and professionals supporting children with ADHD will be on Wednesday 22 November. Please forward the information to parents/carers. 

SEMHIT will be joining the ADHD You Believe We Belong group on Tuesday 22 November at Samares School from 6:30pm – 8:30pm to talk about the work that they do and how they provide support and guidance for children and young people within our island's schools. 

Tickets can be reserved by clicking this link.

2. CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Pathway Introduction Session

Due to take place on the first Tuesday of each month, the aim of the session will be to provide parents/ carers with a brief introduction to the service, the assessment process and support available. For more information and to sign up, please click here. 

Of the 70 students enrolled, all should now have filled in what they are going to do for their 3 areas of skills, fitness and volunteering. Approximately a third of students have done so. Everyone should have completed their 3 month activities by Christmas so two thirds of the boys have not yet recorded what they are doing.

Examples of activities so far are as follows: walking dogs, doing Nana's garden, creating stop animation, gym work at home, chef course at Highlands, helping out at the football/rugby/hockey/tennis, beach litter picks, practising a musical instrument, looking after pet snakes and lizards, Olio app and reducing food waste, BMXing, chess club, learning guitar at home and French Duolingo.

Keeping evidence is important especially if they do not have a formal assessor like cooking at home or home gym work. Some people have already uploaded 4 meals they have cooked, strava routes they have walked or cycled, pictures of rubbish collected and screen shots of progress in their online classes. If they have a coach or a teacher, it's easy to upload an assessor report. Oherwise they will need evidence and will then need to speak to their form tutor or Mrs Blackmore to get help. Remember that family members or people under 18 cannot write assessor reports.

There were 3 boys who gave in their forms quite late and for whom we need to purchase them a place and then enrol them. This is underway. Please email Mrs Blackmore, (m.blackmore@vcj.sch.je) if you have any queries.

If any Y9 students would like to improve their knowledge of First Aid for their 3 monthly skill, we can run a part online and part practical course during a lunchtime. At the end of the 3 months, the students will take a practical test with a suitably qualified person. Please ask Mrs Blackmore for more information. 

Please find attached 3 documents which may be useful for the Trident options selection process:

• Slides from the parents' briefing
• Student selection guide which guides pupils through how to use the Skills Jersey database to make their selections
• A copy of their own placement form to be used if they have secured their own placement away from those on the database (please complete this along with the database option, so we have all the necessary information)

Please don't hesitate to get in touch with Head of Trident, Tim Hutton (t.hutton@vcj.sch.je) if you have any questions.

Trident Parent Information

Student Application Guide

Own Placement Form

Please find here the link to the Y11 Mock Exam Timetable. 

Students will be sent a document summarising the key content covered in each mock paper and should address any queries to their subject teacher.

As part of the post-16 process, we would like to invite you and your sons to the Sixth Form Information Evening, which will take place on Tuesday 14 November, from 5pm-7pm. During the evening, you will hear a presentation from Dr Hughes, Mr Falle and current students which will include:

• The culture and ethos at Victoria College
• The expectations of Victoria College Sixth Form students
• The Victoria College Sixth Form curriculum offer, options and opportunities
• The Victoria College Sixth Form application process and entry criteria
• Advice from current students

As a result of the scheduled industrial action, this will be a somewhat adapted event, with the presentation taking place in the Great Hall. We ask that parents and students be seated in the Great Hall for a 5.15pm start, with doors open from 5pm. 

Access to specific information about subject choices, including videos about the range of A Level options available, will be made available online. We will signpost parents and students to this information during the presentation. 

Following the presentation, parents and students from other Jersey or off-island schools will be welcome to receive a tour of the school from a current student. We will also have current Sixth Form students on hand in the Library to answer any questions that students or parents might have.

The Business and Economics department are delighted to be offering an exciting opportunity for business and economics pupils in Y12 and prospective business and economics students in Y11 to take part in the Victoria College trip to New York, from Monday 15 July to Friday 19 July 2024.

Please see the attached letter for more information.

Y11 & Y12 Business and Economics Trip Parent Letter

We are delighted to invite you to a parent study skills evening on Wednesday 22 November.  This 60-minute session will be delivered by Elevate Education, who will also be working with your children to support them in preparing for their forthcoming mock and final examinations. For more information and to register, please follow the link below. 

Elevate Study Session - Parent Letter

In recent years, a number of Victoria College and Victoria College Preparatory School staff have taken part in ‘Movember’, an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men's suicide. We are once again taking part this year, growing moustaches of varying sizes, shapes and quality, and we are also inviting our Sixth Form students to take part. We are hopeful that our continued efforts to support this event will encourage young people to be open to discussing and tackling such problems.

If Sixth Form students would still like to take part in this wonderful initiative, they should let Mr Falle know that they would like to sign up. It's never too late. We are also asking that all participants contribute a minimum of £10 to our fundraising efforts, the same amount that staff have paid. This can either be paid in cash or using our online donation page. We are arranging photos during 'Movember' so that we can track the progress being made by those taking part. Those not participating should continue to adhere to the usual Sixth Form policy for facial hair.

Money raised will be donated to Movember UK. You can find out more about the work that they do to support Men’s Health here. Should you wish to support the Victoria College students and staff with their fundraising by donating, then you can do so here.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact Head of Sixth Form, Mr Falle, via e-mail (a.falle@vcj.sch.je) should you wish to discuss this further.

Please find here the link to the Y13 Mock Exam Timetable.