Any students, parents or friends of the College are invited to leave messages of condolence for Her Majesty. The online Book of Condolence will remain open to all members and friends of the College until Friday 16th September. All messages will then be printed, bound and sent to the Palace.

Please sign the Home College Agreement as outlined in Dr Hughes' start of term letter by clicking here.

Please refer to our new Calendar and Sports Website, detailing all events, fixtures and team selection that are taking place at the College. This calendar can be synced to your own and filtered for ease.

The Sports website details training and fixtures, lists teams and tracks participants. The password for teamsheets on the website is "Langford".

Please find linked here a letter about the Victoria College Co-curricular Award and Citizenship Awards 2022. 

The Co-Curricular Award was set up so that we can celebrate our students’ outstanding efforts in a wide range of areas, both in school and outside of school, under four headings: Sport, physical, arts and academic. Students can also score points in three additional categories: Leadership and service, social responsibility and charity work, and a personal challenge.

Students are invited to fill in an application form accessible via the link above.

Forms should be returned by email to Mr Akers (k.akers@vcj.sch.je) by Friday 23 September.

In the meantime, please follow this link to hear more about the awards from Head of Co-curricular Activities - Kieran Akers – https://youtu.be/l6c7MwSeARo

Many thanks to those who managed to attend our online Parent Information Evening. It was a pleasure to formally welcome you to Victoria College. For those who missed it please click here to watch the presentation. 

The weekly ‘Learn to Golf’ sessions with the team at Longueville Driving Range are returning. This activity allows boys to spend a lunch break at the driving range, under the supervision of our own VCJ staff golfers, as well as receiving expert tuition and tips from the Range Pro Aaron. The activity will run every Tuesday lunchtime from 20^th September until the end of this term. Please note your son does not need his own clubs for this activity, but if he has a set he wishes to bring he is welcome to. 

The cost of this activity is £165 for the 12 sessions. If you would like to register your son for this activity, please can we ask you to complete the form linked here: https://forms.office.com/r/xHZ4GZTHqA 

Please could we ask for all responses to be completed by the 15^th September to allow for processing. If the activity is oversubscribed, we will use a “name from the hat” system to select the students. 

Please refer any queries to Mr Akers on: k.akers@vcj.sch.je

The Health and Community Services (HCS) Department are offering your child protection against flu.

Nurses will be visiting school to administer the nasal flu vaccine on Tuesday 11 October. You will shortly receive an envelope containing, a parental letter, a consent form and an information sheet. Please complete the consent form and return it to school before the date nurses will be in to vaccinate. This will save us having to contact you.

There is a video on the Government of Jersey website: gov.je/flu showing how the nasal flu vaccine is given.

The HCS department have asked us to share the following information with parents:

This protection is being offered because flu can be a very unpleasant illness for children, with potentially serious complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia, and may require hospitalisation. In children, the symptoms of flu are more severe and prolonged than in adults. We know that children are the super-spreaders of flu during the winter, so by vaccinating your child, and thereby helping prevent them from catching flu, you will also help prevent them from passing flu onto vulnerable friends and family, such as grandparents.

• Children are 2 to 3 times more likely to catch flu than adults
• Children under 5 are more likely to be admitted to hospital with flu than any other age group
• When children get flu, their symptoms are more severe, last longer and can lead to complications
• The nasal vaccine is painless and easy to have

• The flu vaccine given up a child's nose is 0.1ml (around 1/50th of a teaspoon of fluid) given into each nostril. The fluid is quickly absorbed into a child's nose
• The nasal flu vaccine cannot give your child flu
• The nasal flu vaccine can only work in the temperature of the nose and cannot work in the air. The vaccine does not create an external mist. Others in the room who are unvaccinated are not at risk when the nasal vaccine is given

It is recommended the nasal flu vaccine is given September / October time to protect children ahead of the winter. The vaccine must be given every year to ensure children have up-to-date protection.

If you have questions, you can contact Immunisation Specialist Lead, on 01534 445790 or email: Nneka Nlewedim-Okafor N.NlewedimOkafor@health.gov.je

Further information is also available at www.gov.je/flu

CAT testing will take place on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th September 2022. Please refer to the letter from Mrs Croft, available here for further details.

Parents of boys in Y10 are invited to our online Parent Information Evening next Thursday. Parents will have the chance to hear from several key staff about some important aspects of life in Y10, as well as hear from Dr Hughes talk about his priorities for the years ahead. The link to this online presentation is here.

At short notice we have been able to book the camping area by the Scout hut in St Ouen for the October expedition. Therefore, the dates have changed to Thursday, 13^th and Friday, 14^th October.

Drop off and pick up will still be at Victoria College. Full and updated details will be sent out shortly.

We are aware that this will impact their new GCSE courses; boys will be expected to catch up on any missed work.

If you have any queries, please email Mrs Blackmore on: m.blackmore@vcj.sch.je.

This is an information evening for Year 12 parents about the year ahead. Where possible, students should attend with parents, so to ensure everybody is equally aware of important information.

Following two weeks of teaching and data collection at the end of the summer term, the Year 13 Geography pupils should have started to write up their Geography non-examined assessment. This "coursework" is worth 20% of their overall A-Level, and as such it is essential that a significant level of time and energy is dedicated to it. As a department, we are able to offer feedback to the pupils on the sections on their coursework over a series of deadlines. Failure to meet a section deadline will mean that the pupil fails to receive feedback and the chance to improve and re-draft that section of the coursework.

Deadlines

19th September - Geography NEA Independent Fieldwork Day 2

The pupils have already had one day out of school independently collecting data last term and will have another on the 19th of September. Many have already collected data, and those who need more could benefit from collecting data in the coming weekends and using the 19th as a dedicated "write-up day" in school. My colleagues and I will be on hand all day to support pupils in writing up their NEA on the 19th, and by ensuring the pupils have all their data in place by the 18th of September will give them a significant advantage. If I can ask for your support in nudging your sons to ensure they are up to date on their NEA and ideally in a place to allow them to use the 19th as a full "write-up day", I would be hugely grateful.

NEA Stragglers

I will be in contact with you directly if deadlines are missed and if pupils are required, the department will ask that pupils formally attend after-school workshops to ensure completion.