Our House
Welcome to the Victory Page of the school website. Victory is led by Pastoral Director of Learning (PDL) Miss Kerry Dixon who has been at Nunthorpe for five years, and by her Assistant Pastoral Director of Learning (APDL) Mr Rob Pendlington who has been at the school since January 2008.
Message from Miss Dixon PDL
In Victory we are committed to being ‘Bigger, Brighter and better’. We can be ‘Bigger’ by always being on the look out to help others in our school and in our community. Being ‘Brighter’ by not being another face in the crowd, but making sure we stand out and always set a good example through our positive attitude towards work and others. Finally we can be ‘Better’, by making sure we always strive to improve and that we never settle for second best.
In short ‘Bigger, Brighter and Better’, means different things to different people. But no matter the interpretation, everyone agrees that our house vision is about improving ourselves, Victory House and the school.
House Captains
Chris and Vicky, are the two House Captains of Victory. Victory is like a big family of staff and students that all get along as one and work together in order for Victory to be the best. We have a team of 15 prefects who all work with staff as a team to keep the house in order and to help Victory in things such as charity.
House Charity
The Butterwick Childrens Hospice is the designated charity of Victory House. The hospice is based in Stockton on Tees, and offers both respite care and end of life care to both children and teenagers who have life changing illnesses. Throughout the course of the year Victory works together to help raise money for this charity through a variety of ways organised by individual students as well as tutor groups.
A group of 6 prefects and other students joined Miss Dixon and Mr Pendlington to the house charity – Butterwick House Children’s Hospice and experienced a very emotional visit in order for all students and staff to know where the money we raise goes and to make us more determined to raise money for the hospice.
Victory for the past few years has led the school in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal. The Shoebox appeal is part of Operation Christmas Child – which aims to give some of the most deprived students in the world a present at Christmas. Victory again was successful for Christmas 2010 by sending 176 shoeboxes to the appeal, more than any other house in the school.
