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Cake for a Good Cause

Recently Year 9 launched the first “dream team” tutor group for girls and have made an excellent start with Miss Lamb.  Having only been together for two weeks, the girls planned and organised their very own Macmillan coffee morning on 30th September. The girls worked...
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Rich Rocks SHV

Thank you to the the amazing Mr. Rich Cottell for joining us at the Academy yesterday to speak to our students about British Values, anti-bullying and staying safe online and how these important issues relate to young people. Rich is a talented musician and online personality...
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World Challenge Wonders!

During the summer holidays, five of our students ventured to Costa Rica and Nicaragua for a challenging three week expedition of a life time. There first stop was to complete a five day community project in the Osa Pennisula, with the aim of conservation, helping with the...
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Open Evening 2016

Thanks to everyone that joined us for our Academy Open Evening last Wednesday, as you can see from the photos it was a great night,with parents from across the city coming to see just what makes Sandhill such a wonderful school. We’d also like to thank our staff who really...
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Change of Number

The school has recently changed its contact information. The new telephone number is 0191 594 9992 to contact us directly. This will put your through to our switchboard which will then direct you to the correct person to contact in school.  
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A Leap forward for SHV.

Students and staff at Sandhill View Academy are celebrating after a great improvement in GCSE results. The school added more than 10% to its headline figure for students gaining five top GCSEs moving from 36% to 46% this year and this represents an improvement of 18% in the last...
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The Circle of Life!

Over twenty of our pupils have shown off their amazing talents in the production of The Lion King. The pupils, ranging from YR7 to YR11, performed for all of our visiting year 6 pupils. We also invited the year 5’s from schools across Sunderland to come and watch the show, meet...
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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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Goodbye Year 11

Farewell to our Year 11 Class of 2016 who had their leavers celebration assembly this week. Awards were passed out to both pupils and tutors alike, memories were shared, well wishes exchanged, last goodbyes were said. You all be missed, especially by your form tutors and of...
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Parent View Survey

We invite all Sandhill View parents to take our Parent View survey in order to help us make improvements to the school. Parent View gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think about us, from the quality of teaching to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour. The survey...
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Points Mean Prizes

The last week of term was our Activities week, where students are offered the opportunity to spend the praise points they have earned throughout the term on fun activities and lessons being offered throughout the entire week. From baking to arts and crafts, Henna tattoos to nail...
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Countdown Conundrum

 Just before the end of Term Years 7, 8, and 9 recently took part in a Countdown competition, based on the popular TV show, which proved to be a great success. Representing their tutor groups, in teams of 2, nominated students worked on a series of challenging number and word...
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Sweet Science

On Monday morning our Science Technician, Miss. Thomson, brought in 120 cupcakes to be arranged in the order of the periodic table by our lovely World Challenge students. They sold out in under 10 minutes and raised another £60 for world challenge. Thank you to everyone who...
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Head of School’s Blog

7th March 2016 After the recent half-term break we now find ourselves at exactly the half-way point of the current academic school year. Staff and students continue to make every effort in teaching and learning to ensure the progress and success our learners deserve. I have...
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Author Spooks Year 7

A huge thank you to world renowned author Joseph Delaney who came into school before half term to present to our Year 7’s about his life as an author and the influences behind his multimillion selling Wardstone Chronicles series. The highlight of this was hearing Joseph describe...
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Big Results from Big Draw!

Back in October the school hosted Big Draw Week. Amongst other school wide projects for the event, our brave year ten students took on the task of venturing into tutor groups across the school to ask students to create drawings to promote our school summer production of THE LION...
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University Calling…

The Sixth Form at Southmoor was buzzing on Wednesday night. Not only did we have a fantastic turnout from Sandhill View pupils, but there were more students from schools across the city than we’ve ever had before. Clearly the word is beginning to spread – they also...
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Open Morning

We are holding a Careers Open Morning at the school on Saturday 16th January 9.00am to 12:00 noon. This will give potential applicants for the teaching roles available this year at the academy an opportunity to see the school and hear about our plans as well as talking to key...
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Amazing Work Alert!

Year 11 art students have been working extremely hard this term to create contemporary sculptures inspired by their Yorkshire Sculpture Park visit in the summer and Banksy’s Dismaland themepark. The themes addressed are extremely diverse ranging from vanity, teenage pregnancy and...
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Year 7 Get it Write!

In November we were lucky enough to be visited by noted children’s author Philip Ardagh, who joined us to talk to our Year 7s about life as a writer . Mr Ardagh is a Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning author with over 100 books under his belt, including Grubtown Tales and the Grunts...
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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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Baltic Creative Careers Visit

  As a way to kick start a brand new GCSE course at SHV we took the entire photography cohort to the Baltic centre for contemporary art in Gateshead and to the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to take some exciting shots for their projects. Students attended various...
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The Book Club is back.

The VI Book Club will be starting up again this month. The Book Club is the only club in the country of its type for children with visual impairment and we are delighted that it is to continue this year. Sandhill View pupils with visual impairment have attended the club on a...
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Big Draw Month!

October is Big Draw month! SHV will be celebrating 19th-23rd October by creating a whole school animated film with a drawing from every pupil! The creative team at SHV have actively been involved in delivering exciting Big Draw activities over the years in school and with local...
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Open Evening Winners

Congratulations to the winning participants of our prize draw from last Wednesday’s Open Evening. Everyone who joined us on the night was given the chance to take part in a treasure hunt across the building, with each department holding clues to the questions posed. Those...
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SHV Open Evening

On Wednesday 23rd September we held our Academy Open Evening. The event was a huge success with record numbers of parents turning up with their children, curious to see the massive changes  and improvements happening at the school. After a short presentation in the theatre that...
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Open Evening 2015

At Sandhill View Academy, we pride ourselves on being a school with its heart in the community. We believe that if lessons are exciting and challenging, if young people are successful, if they are involved in their learning and in school life,  then our Academy will act as a...
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Our G.C.S.E results are in!

A difficult year involving a lot of hard work from students and staff has certainly paid off, following our recent GCSE results! We are delighted to be the second most improved school in Sunderland, regarding our five A*-C’s including English and maths figures – 46% of our...
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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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Art & Design Showcase

Starting on Tuesday 7th July our G.C.S.E art students got to the chance to show off their creative talents in the Summer Art Show which took place in the school theatre. From the opening preview night on the 7th the show was open to the public on the evenings and to the students...
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Fame!

Between Tuesday the 30th June and Thursday 2nd July our drama enrichment pupils staged a fantastic rendition of the musical fame at the school to very appreciateive audiences from the local community. The cast have worked tirelessly on the production since the start of the school...
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New School Website Live!

We are very excited to welcome you to our brand new school website. We have been working very hard over the past few months to bring together a website that will help better represent the school with its online presence. The new website is stuffed with all sort of useful...
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