As of 14.45 on Friday 17 November we understand that the escalated Action Short of Strike Action by NASUWT has been suspended from Monday 20 November. Victoria College, as stated in the letter to parents earlier today, was planning to open with normal hours anyway on Monday. Updates will be provided in due course. 

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 week's questions:

Y7 - Why might girls feel embarrassed talking about periods? What can we do to make sure they don’t feel ashamed or embarrassed? 

Y8 - Why is human trafficking and modern slavery still happening today? Can you think of any effective ways governments can solve this problem?

Y9 - What do freedom and capacity to consent mean? Why are they so important? 

• 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. 

SEMHIT will be joining the ADHD You Believe We Belong group on Tuesday 22 November at Samares School from 18:30pm – 20:30pm 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. 

Please see attached a letter from our Head of PSHE which provides a update on this term's lessons.

Year 7 PSHE Parent Letter

College Field has just about recovered from the recent storms and Y7 House Football is finally up and running on Fridays after school from 15.35 to 16.35pm.

If you visit the Sports homepage here and go to 'In-House Sports' you can find all the House sport there. The boys are to wear their House games kit and ensure they have shin pads and football boots to take part. If their House is not playing that week, then they are not to attend that Friday. Teams are chosen during tutor time and everyone is welcome to play and represent their house.

Upcoming fixtures this term can be found 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 for 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 see attached a letter from our Head of PSHE which provides a update on this term's lessons.

Year 9 PSHE Parent Letter

Please see attached a letter regarding the option to purchase the Biology revision guide.

Year 9 & 10 Biology Revision Guide

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.

Please find attached a letter from Mr Falle following the Sixth Form Open Evening, held on 14th November, including information regarding the application process for a Sixth Form place. You will also find attached a copy of the presentation, and a draft application form, which is referenced in the letter.

Sixth Form Open Evening Follow Up

Sixth Form Open Evening Presentation

Victoria College Sixth Form Application Form

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.