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February 2023

Year 9 Progress Evening Incoming

27 Feb 2023
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Our Year 9 Progress evening is this week on Wednesday 1st March, from 4pm – 6:30pm. We hope to have a similar fantastic turn out from parents and carers as we had at our recent Options Information Evening. This will be a chance to discuss with your child’s tutors about their...
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Information Regarding Strike Action

27 Feb 2023
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The National Education Union (NEU) have planned a series of strike dates that will affect our school’s ability to open fully. The next date that will affect us is: Tuesday 28th February 2023 There is no requirement for the NEU to inform us which members of staff will be on strike...
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Super Scientists Making Magic

27 Feb 2023
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Year 4 pupils from Hastings Hill Academy came for their first visit to Sandhill View Science department, where they tried to recreate the magic of Harry Potter spells by burning different chemicals and observing what colour the flame changed to. They also enjoyed the...
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World Book Day on the Way

27 Feb 2023
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World Book Day is just around the corner, on Thursday 2nd March 2023. As always, this mission of WBD is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of...
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Sandhill Scholars Discover New Subjects

27 Feb 2023
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Sandhill View Scholars payed a visit to Southmoor to experience life in sixth form. They took part in a very exciting Biology lesson where they learnt about DNA and made models. They looked at the specification for A-level Biology and how it was building on their...
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Outdoor Mindfulness

15 Feb 2023
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For Children’s Mental Health Week, gardening and being in nature is a fantastic opportunity to reflect and help support our mental health. Around school the first sets of snowdrops have begun popping up, and goat willow has started developing male catkins which looks like...
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Making Memories with Sandhill Scholars

15 Feb 2023
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The Scholars students were greeted by Katie from Durham. Katie is a Phycologist and lectures at Durham University. In addition to this she carries out fascinating research on how to improve working memory. The students took part in an actual university lecture where they listened...
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Primary Friends Enjoy a Music Workshop

15 Feb 2023
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We invited in Year 3 pupils in from Hastings Hill Academy to take part in a special music workshop. Our primary friends had a great time learning about the basic concepts in music such as pitch, tone and volume before putting what they learned into practice on some of the musical...
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National Apprenticeship Week

15 Feb 2023
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To mark National Apprenticeships week we have been linking in information about apprenticeships into every subject lesson across all year groups. Pupils had the chance to learn more about the growing popularity of apprenticeships, what they are, how they work and how you can...
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Options Evening Success!

14 Feb 2023
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Our Year 9 Options Information Evening was a massive success. We had a fantastic turn out of pupils and parents who joined us to learn more about the options subjects available to them for next year. The pathways students choose to take now are very important ones as they will...
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Reading Leaders Ready!

14 Feb 2023
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We presented our Year 10 Reading Leaders with their certificates and SHV badges for successfully completing their Coram Beanstalk’s Reading Leaders Training Course. These students are going to work closely with some of our Year 8 students to help improve their confidence...
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Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week

14 Feb 2023
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The theme of CMHW this year is ‘Let’s Connect’, and up and down the country children have been working together to forge stronger relationships with one another, improving wellbeing and mental health in the process. In conjunction with the mental health charity Place2Be, the...
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Influential Art

08 Feb 2023
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Year 10 art students have been creating paintings inspired by influential people in our culture inspired by Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama presidential campaign artwork. Thank you to Grace, Micheal, Erin, Olivia H and Olivia B for your striking work!
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Gentoo Drop into our Aspire Hub

07 Feb 2023
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We welcomed KS4 students to join a special representative from Gentoo in the Aspire Hub who spoke about some of the amazing careers available with the company. Gentoo are a local housing association responsible for housing over 60,000 people within the city. Each year the...
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Tournament Action for our Year 8 Girls’ Footballers

07 Feb 2023
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The Year 8 girls travelled to Kepier School for a football tournament. They were placed in a group with Oxclose, Farringdon and our Trust rivals Southmoor. They thoroughly enjoyed their first tournament experience and had fun whilst braving the cold weather. Well done to our...
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Options Evening Incoming!

06 Feb 2023
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Our wonderful Year 9 students embarked on their options journey, where they all experienced six taster sessions in subjects that are not taught on the KS3 curriculum but offered at KS4. Students had hands on taster sessions in Child Development, Engineering, Photography...
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Year 10 Look to the Future at the Sixth Form

06 Feb 2023
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Year 10 students from Sandhill View Academy took the chance to discover our Sixth Form for a day of taster subjects. Students got the chance to try a breadth or reputable A-level subjects including: Art, Literature, Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Engineering, Photography, Health...
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Eco Team Full of Flutter in Our School Garden

01 Feb 2023
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The Eco Team took part in the RSPB’s Big Bird Count. Students visited the new bird feeding station in the garden and spent an hour recording the species of bird that visited the garden. The information gathered is then submitted to the RSPB to help them monitor garden bird...
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Sandhill View Academy

Grindon Lane, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
SR3 4EN

Tel: 0191 594 9992
Email: info@sandhillview.com

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