Sandhill View Academy

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Our pupils continue to do some fantastic work from home as they adapt to learning under lockdown. This week’s home-working heroes are: ICT: ⭐ Tito Carlson (Year 7) ⭐ Tyler Mccully (Year 8) GCSE...

Year 7 Hard at Work

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Year 7 students have been working hard from home, completing their daily tasks on Show My Homework whilst also taking part in our ‘100 Days of Reading’ Challenge and ‘PE with Joe Wicks’. Don’t forget, you can visit our ‘Work From Home‘...

Careers Learning at Sandhill

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As part of National Careers Week, Sandhill View were visited by a film crew to speak to students, staff and employers. The highlights video has just been released and it is wonderful to see Sandhill View featured, emphasising the importance of Careers Education in...

PE with Joe Wicks

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As the national lockdown continues, we are encouraging staff and students to take part in Joe Wicks’ body workouts to keep fit and healthy. Joe, is hosting daily sessions via YouTube. People of every generation have been getting involved with Joe’s workouts and he has...

Safeguarding at Home

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We know that parenting and caring for children is often difficult and there are many things which we need to be vigilant with to keep our children safe, happy and healthy. This is especially difficult during the ongoing crisis where children may be spending prolonged periods...

Showing Appreciation

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As the country stood on their doorsteps to applaud the NHS, one of our own students – Leah Simpson (Year 7) showed appreciation in a different way. Leah wanted to do something nice for the NHS and, because she has two little sisters, she decided she wanted to do...

ASDA e-Gift Vouchers

31 Mar 2020

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We’ve had a number of queries regarding the ASDA e-gift cards we are providing to children on Free School Meals – how to use them and what to distribute so we wanted to share some useful information to help clarify how these work....

Student Work of the Week

30 Mar 2020

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As our pupils work from home with the tasks our staff are setting them daily, we’d like to take the time to celebrate the successes of the students who have worked hard and succeeded in producing some fantastic work. We look forward to reporting on more excellent...

Mental Health & Wellbeing Support

30 Mar 2020

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At Sandhill View Academy we place the highest important upon the mental wellbeing of our students. Young people in our modern society face many stresses and strains that affect their mental health, especially at school. This is no less important in these difficult times where the...

Reading at Home

30 Mar 2020

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During this period of extended home study there is nothing better you could be doing than reading. It doesn’t have to be a book, it could be a magazine, online blog or autobiography of your favourite celebrity! Reading supports every area of the curriculum and is to the...

English Knowledge Organiser

20 Mar 2020

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Click on the links below to open the documents. Q2-and-Q3-knowlege-organiser KO-GCSE-Eng-Lang-Creative-Writing (1) White Poppies KO Reading Fiction KO Poetry From Other Cultures – Matt A Christmas Carol Knowledge Organiser AQA-GCSE-English-Language-Knowledge-Organiser The...

National Careers Week 2020

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We celebrated National Careers Week. This included hosting assemblies, a fantastic range of employers joining us in school over lunchtime to speak to our students about job opportunities and all members of staff displaying their Higher Education pathways, making Careers Week...

Young Artists in Exhibition

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Year 10 Art students have created work inspired by ‘Received Wisdom’ an exhibition of contemporary art at the Sunderland Museum. They were inspired by contemporary artists who confront our assumptions about ageing, bringing the young and young at heart together in one...

Sandhill Scholars Study Newcastle University

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Our Year 10 scholars programme students went on an ‘ACE Day’ trip to Newcastle University to learn about university life. They also competed in a scavenger hunt and won out of 15 other groups from across the region! Well done.

A Wonderfully Wordy World Book Day

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Both students and staff celebrated ‘World Book Day’ in school through various activities. All Year 7, 8 and 9 students received a book token which can be used at any participating book store to get either a free World Book Day book or get £1 off a book their choice....

Year 10 & 5 Get Creative

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Our Year 10 Art students planned and taught art session to local Year 5 students at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. They discussed the ‘Arts Council Collection’ on display at the gallery and taught them techniques such as photomontage, printmaking and artist...

Year 9 Look to Finance and the Future

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All Year 9 pupils visited Newcastle University. This was a really informative day looking at the importance of finance for the future, looking at transferable skills and raising their aspirations for the future. We also had a tour of the university and the state of the art...

Putting the Paddle In

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Well done to Ava McCully who once again represented Sandhill View and Sunderland in the Northern Regional Indoor Rowing Championships which were held at Durham University. Ava competed against 11 other Year 7 girls from across the region. Ava showed great effort and...

Science Live! in Sheffield

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Budding scientists travelled down to Sheffield just before half term to attend the ‘GCSE Science Live’ lectures. It was a fantastic opportunity to see and hear some of Britain’s top scientists, all working at the cutting edge of their specialisms. Guests included host of...

Awarding Attendance & Attitude

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Congratulations to the students from all year groups who received a ‘SHV 1000’ certificate just before half term. We are happy to report that over 500 of our students managed to collate at least 1000 praise points for positive behaviour towards learning, with many of those...

Fighting Fire with Fundraising

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Tutor groups have been raising money this half term to aid those in Australia suffering the effects of the recent bushfires after a very heartfelt request from one of our students in year 8, Darcie Peters. There were a range of fundraising events such as cake and pizza sales,...

A Lesson at the Opera

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Performing Arts students were given the chance to work with Opera Sunderland and performed a mini version of the classic ‘Carmen’. At the end of the workshop students were offered the opportunity to perform in the chorus of Opera Sunderland’s upcoming new production of The...

Scholars Study Durham

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The Scholars had their first trip to Durham University just before half term. The morning started in Palace Green Library with a quiz on ‘What is a book’ before learning a new skill – paleography – by analysing a Tudor inventory. Students then split into two...

Skeleton Science with Sandhill scholars

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Sandhill Scholars got up close and personal with skeletons. Durham University ran a workshop about the history of medicine through the lens of bioarchaeology. They had three tasks: 1. To assemble a skeleton. 2. To analyse amputated bones and trepanned skulls. 3. To look at a...

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