Sandhill View Academy

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Goodbye & Good luck

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We said goodbye to Year 11 having released them from all but their remaining exam timetables. Students have worked incredibly hard in revision sessions over the last few terms and will hopefully reap the rewards of their efforts in August! They have been a fantastic year group...

Good Sports

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Sandhill View PE department hosted the Year 3, 4 5 and 6 sports days with the help of some of Year 10 Sport’s Leaders. Events ranged from 100m to 400m on the track, shot putt, javelin, discus on the field as well as football dribbling, egg and spoon and relays. All...

Belize Beckons

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Members of our World Challenge Team have been preparing for their adventure by exploring the itinerary of their expedition, discussing fundraising, maintenance whilst in Belize in the jungle, travel arrangements and much, much more. The group even practiced survival techniques,...

Connecting with our Friends in Africa

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Sandhill had a visit from our friends Grace and Festo. They travelled all of the way from our charity link school, St John’s School in Tanzania, to meet our staff and students and to see the vast changes Sandhill has gone through since their previous visit. Although their...

Year 7 Get a Taste of University

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A group of our Year 7 pupils attended Newcastle University. The day was arranged to give our students a taste of ‘uni life’ and consisted of team building activities ranging from biology through to engineering. One of our groups even won the engineering challenge...

Primary Pupils Race for Life

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We were proud to once again host a ‘Race for Life’ with help from our local primary schools. Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer, events like Race for Life is what helps charities like Cancer Research UK continue their ground-breaking work to see more...

Food for Thought

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Students in Year 7 have recently had the chance to take part in a workshops centred around the importance of good nutrition. Pupils were informed about the importance of eating choices as part of a healthy lifestyle before being given the chance to get hands on and make their...

Teen Talk

20 Jun 2018

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Next week we will be hosting an afternoon of free access to professional advice on teen issues including: health & hygiene, behaviour, sexual health, puberty, life skills, drug abuse, mental well being & much more with the help of local charities and organisations. Whilst...

Year 7 Welcome Evening

08 Jun 2018

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Thank you to the Year 6 pupils and parents who joined us on Thursday evening for our welcome and enrolment evening. It was a fantastic opportunity for students to meet their new classmates, speak with some of their teachers and pastoral staff, learn more about our Academy and...

School Uniform Pop Up Shop

08 Jun 2018

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We will once again be operating a uniform pop-up shop over the school holidays for parents who wish to come in to school to order uniform in time for our next academic year. Our uniform supplier, Elizabeth’s Embroidery, will be in school to take your orders and size school...

ASB Fires and disorder at the former Farringdon Police station

25 May 2018

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The Fire Service and the Police have seen an increase in the number of Anti Social Behaviour incidents and deliberate fires in the vicinity of the former Police Station at Farringdon. Young people have been entering the building and setting fires to the illegally disposed of...

Head of School’s Blog #26

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World Challenge Ready to Ramble

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Students who are taking part in our World Challenge trip to Belize recently undertook a gruelling 11.5 mile hike through the local countryside as part of fundraising for their upcoming adventure. Team Belize showed stamina, discipline, motivation and courage during this walk to...

Mathematic Magic

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We welcomed ‘The Maths Magician’ who came into school to deliver workshops to a selection of pupils from Years 7, 8 and 9. The fun and interactive sessions gave pupils the chance to learn some numerical tricks, solve puzzles and have an insight into the seeming...

Girls Football Squad Get the Glory Again

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Well done to our Under 16 girls five-a-side football team who collected their league title at Sunderland Schools Football Association Awards Evening. Since our last edition of the blog our girls once again had a fantastic season, proving themselves formidable opponents against...

Head of School’s Blog #25

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Sign of the Times

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Recently, a North East politician took a campaign to the House of Commons – to make British Sign Language a GCSE subject. Unfortunately, this was rejected but the campaign continues to get BSL the recognition many feel it deserves as a curriculum subject. In response to...

Sandhill View & Southmoor Academies Enjoy the Slopes

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Sandhill View teamed up with our extended family at Southmoor Academy to run another successful ski trip over the Easter break to Claviere, Italy. With help from the beast from the East, perfect conditions met the group of 38 students and 5 members of staff for an unforgettable...

Training in Silence

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We were recently visited by Sandhill View alumni, Jack Gray. Since leaving Sandhill Jack has worked with football coaches from the Sunderland Foundation of Light and is now training to be a coach himself with this establishment. BT, in conjunction with the Foundation of Light,...

Back on the Leading Edge

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On Thursday 19th April three Year 9 students took part in ‘The Leading Edge’ debate session. In this session the students had to form opinions on topics such as “Should all drugs be tested on animals before humans can use them?” and “Should drug use be allowed in...

Food in the Bank

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Well done to our generous students who are helping our community by donating food the local food bank. Over this term we hope to collect even more as our students look to increase their charity work towards the end of the academic year.

Eggcellent attenders.

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Congratulations to Chloe May (Year 8) and Rebecca Ward (Year11) for scooping the grand prizes in our Easter Eggstravaganza attendance competition. The girls were drawn from a pool of over 400 pupils who managed to maintain 100% attendance over the period. Chloe took home £100...

Head of School’s Blog #24

22 Mar 2018

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Going Digital at Disneyland

22 Mar 2018

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Year 8 & 9 IT pupils attended the ‘Computing Live 2018!’ conference in Disneyland, Paris. We visited the Eiffel Tower and cruised along the River Seine in freezing temperatures, on route to the seminar. Our staff and students stayed at the Cheyenne Hotel which had been...

A Red Card for Racism

22 Mar 2018

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Year 9 & 10 students participated in lessons presented by special guest volunteers from ‘Show Racism the Red Card’. Show Racism The Red Card is an anti-racism educational charity that aims to combat racism through enabling role models, who are predominately but not...

Ready, Steady, Cook!

13 Mar 2018

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Staff and students swapped textbooks for cookery books recently, when they took part in their own version of ‘Ready Steady Cook’. Special guests from the Chartwells’ ‘Putting Fun back into Food’ programme, came to Sandhill View to set students the challenge of making...

Finlay Reporting

13 Mar 2018

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Last month, Year 8 pupil, Finlay Anderson, was invited to be a match reporter for the day by Sunderland AFC for their match against Brentford FC. He spent a fabulous day learning more about Sports Journalism, a career which Finlay is passionate about pursuing, as well as having...

Head of School’s Blog #23

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Sandhill View students Look to the Future at the Sixth Form Open Evening

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Thank you to everyone that joined us at Southmoor Academy Sixth Form for our final open evening of the academic year. The night saw the best ever turnout for our Sixth Form Open Evening which was a chance for students to think about their future. In total, 167 students attended...

A Lesson in Life Saving

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Students from our HI and SEN departments were given a specially tailored lesson on CPR. Disaster can strike at any moment, so it is important that we equip our young learners with the skills and confidence to step forward and possibly save a life. Students were shown the full...

Student Sleuths

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Year 11 English students from Miss Hills’ class recently tested their investigative powers as part of a ‘who did it?’ murder mystery. Pupils took the time to get out of class and roam the building gathering clues before returning to the classroom so that they...

World Challenge Walk-About

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Action Packed Art in Newcastle

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A jam-packed adventure in Newcastle saw our Year 9 pupils embark on a photo challenge on Northumberland Street, a visit to Fenwick’s window and an explorative workshop at the Hatton Gallery in the city centre. Students learned how to creatively respond to Pop Art work from the...

Year 9 Explore Sunderland University

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Year 9 visited Sunderland University for an event hosted by NECOP, which is a collaboration of higher education establishments in the North East aimed at raising pupil aspirations. The day was a great success with pupils working on a range of interactive activities aimed at...

Looking into Creative Careers

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Year 10 recently explored career choices and contemporary art at The Baltic Gallery in Gateshead. The Year 10s found that there are over 8000 jobs in the creative industries in the North East in a careers workshop before heading up to their current art and photography exhibition...

Head of School’s Blog #21

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Treats in Store for Easter

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We will once again be rewarding students for being in school as part of our ‘Easter Attendance Eggstravaganza’. Students have the chance to win a host of prizes including sweets and gift vouchers for each day they maintain 100% attendance this term. At the end of term we will...

The Stage is Set For Annie

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Sandhill Academy’s next school production of the hit musical ‘Annie’ is already in the works ready for the end of year show. The cast and crew are all very excited to bring this famous Broadway show to life and are looking forward to performing on stage in front...

Acting Out on British Values

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We were joined by students and staff from Newcastle College to present our Year 9 students with a special workshop centred around the idea of ‘British Values’. The drama students gave a short show on the theme before splitting off into groups to help pupils come up with their own...

A Look into Life

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Miss Wallace took a group of Year 9 & 10 students on a trip to the Centre for Life in Newcastle, to allow them to get a feel for what a real life science lab is like. Our students learnt about the use of Stem Cells in modern bio-chemistry and participated in a biology...

Festive Fundraising

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Just before the Christmas break our students were invited to don their Christmas jumpers and give a £1 donation to the charity ‘Save the Children.’ The response was incredible with most of our students getting into the festive spirit and turning up to school in some form of...

Heart in the Community