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Sandhill Students Rise to a Trampoline Challenge

Sandhill view students from Years 7-10 represented the school at the Sunderland school games Trampoline competition. Hosted by AAA sports. All of the students did a fantastic job performing their routine. Well done to all that took part!
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Making a Splash at the Swim Gala

Sandhill view pupils from Year 7 – 9 represented the school at the Sunderland School Games Swimming Gala. The girls took part in a number of team races swimming against schools from around Sunderland. All of our swimmers give 100% in their events and showed great...
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Sandhill Lionesses Celebrate Women’s Football

Our Year 7 and 8 girls’ football teams attended a football festival at Sunderland University. The purpose of the festival was to promote leadership and the women’s world cup.  The girls played a number of games, attended a leadership workshop and even got to try on...
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Hows That?

A mixture of Year 7 and 8 students represented the Academy in a highly competitive cricket competition at Ashbrooke Cricket Ground before half term. Following our group games, we qualified for the semi-finals in a gripping game by scoring one more run than our opponents. We fell...
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Fun at the football Festival

Before half term, year 7 and 8 students represented Sandhill View at a football festival, hosted by Sunderland University. The festival was an opportunity to allow the students to develop an understanding of leadership roles in sport, play competitive football and see past and...
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Thinking Fit

Sandhill View P.E. Department have been working with the ‘Sunderland Lifestyle Activity and Food’ programme to educate and encourage our students to eat well, move more and make healthy life choices. The students attended a number of sessions where they took...
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Fantastic Futsal

Six Year 8 students represented Sandhill at the Beacon of Light in the Sunderland Schools Futsal competition. Our boys produced excellent performances and were the only team unbeaten in the competition. Overall Sandhill finished 2nd in the group winning three games and drawing...
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Primary Pupils Race for Life

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...
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Girls Football Squad Get the Glory Again

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...
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Sandhill View & Southmoor Academies Enjoy the Slopes

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...
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Training in Silence

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,...
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Finlay Reporting

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...
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Football Report

After comments of; ‘The world is ending’, ‘Are we really playing football in this weather?’ and ‘I’m not allowed out when its dark’, the Year 7 boys took on their first real test in St. Aidan’s A team. The game was very tight but a...
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H’way the Lads

Six of our Year 8 students recently took part in football trials for the Sunderland Boys football team.  All of our boys showed outstanding footballing ability, however, two students in particular impressed the coaches.  Well done to Deacon Donnell and Mitchell Fairweather who...
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SnoZone

18 Year 10 students joined Mrs Turner and Mr Twemlow in wrapping up within their winter woolies ready for an action packed day at the SnoZone indoor ski centre in Castleford. Students tried out the nursery slope on the real snow and mastered their turns before moving up on to the...
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Cross Country Colossuses

After an extremely wet cross-country session, a number of our PE students arrived safely back at Sandhill View with excellent set of results for our school. All students were a real asset to the academy and embraced the harsh conditions, with the following having qualified for...
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Olympic Visitor

On Thursday, we were proud to host Olympic bronze medallist and local girl, Amy Tinkler – along with other local schools who came to visit and hear about her inspiring life. Amy dazzled our students with a short floor display before taking questions and answers from our...
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Students with Bounce

Congratulations to all students that recently competed in the Sunderland Schools Trampolining Competition. All our students were a credit to the themselves and the school. We have two students who will be representing Sunderland at the level 3 Tyne and Wear schools event. Shauna...
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SHV Scores Success

Last week our girls football team took on the Northern Girls Football Week Tournament in Durham. Sandhill view got off to an amazing start beating Hetton 3-1. Their second game was against St Thomas Moore which they won 1-0. In their third game the girls kept up their winning run...
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Heaps of Fun

Thank you to Craig Heap for visiting us and our students as part of the ‘Sky Living for Sports’ event, linking to our growth mindset programme. Craig is a retired Commonwealth Games Gold medal winning gymnast who has represented England over 100 times in various...
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The Magnificent Seven!

Yesterday our Year 7/8 girls football team faced a challenge with only seven players being available for their nine-a-side games. The girls played two games, winning the first 3-0 against Castle View with goals from Lateesha King, Tia McKitterick and Sommer Bainbridge. Their...
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Sports Day 2015

On the last week of term this year we held our annual sports days. Each year group from years 7 – 9 took up the colours of a country to represent them across several events. Teams competed with each other to score points across a host of events such as 100m sprint, discus,...
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