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Marvellous Medical Mavericks

Students had the chance to learn about NHS careers with a visit from the ‘Medical Mavericks’ roadshow. They took part in a range of activities including recording their own ECG, taking blood from a fake arm and practising keyhole surgery as well as taking a look inside their own...
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Goodbye & Good Luck Year 11

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! We all wish them the very best in their...
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Hasting Hill Pupils Look to their Future

Hastings Hill students experienced their first Aspirations Workshop, delivered by our Raising Aspirations Coordinator, Miss Ungley. Pupils explored what Aspirations are and how they could succeed in the future. Year 4 students learned about curiosity, and how this has helped...
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Heading for the DesignLab

We are very excited to announce that Sandhill View Academy have been offered 18 fully funded spaces on the DesignLab project, a scheme encouraging young people to engage in the creative industries across the UK. As part of this, Year 10 art and photography students will take part...
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Year 6 Intake Evening

This Wednesday we are welcoming Year 6 students who will be joining us in September as our new Year 7 cohort.   We will be dividing the evening into two separate time slots, one at 4pm and the second at 5pm. Parents should have already received an invitation letter...
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SHV is Racism Aware

As a school, we have now completed the Racism Awareness Programme ran by Challenging Youth Racism. This involved a series of workshops ran by an external provider. This culminated in 14 students spending the day completing a course making them Student Champions. This is aimed at...
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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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Winter Gardens Work Experience

Year 10 student Allanah Jo Berry is currently completing her work experience placement at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. She is also studying towards an Art Awards qualification in addition to her GCSE’s in school. As part of this she planned her own art...
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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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Nothing to Sniff At

We were visited by Alan the sniffer dog and his handler, who have been into school and visited a number of classrooms and social areas.  This visit is not in response to any particular incident but part of our continued links with the community police, to ensure that we...
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