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We invited Year 7 students and their parents to spend part of their evening doing maths enhancement lessons. These lessons are designed to boost numeracy skills and help parents understand the processes pupils use when undertaking their maths homework. We hope by working...

Football Team Trials

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We are now recruiting squad members for our new Year 7 and Year 8 football teams. Team trials have began with successful students who show enough teamwork, talent and commitment being part of our team effort to win Sandhill View some silverware this...

A Knock Out Success

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Jake Brown (Year 9) has recently won the England boxing schoolboys national championships. Jake won four fights along the way whilst travelling the country to win the class B 44.5kg school boys championships. The fight was even broadcast live on YouTube...

You Can Help your Child’s Form Group Win a Prize

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As a school we are currently making the move to our new classroom support system, ClassCharts. You can help us with this, as well as help your child’s form group win a pizza party! For each year group we are asking children to encourage their parents to login...

Academy Open Evening 2021

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This year’s open evening was a huge success, as more parents than ever before visited to find out more about our school. Feedback from parents was incredibly positive, especially when it came to the passion of our staff and students and all...

Music Morning

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As part of The Sunderland Music Hub’s Music Week, our Year 7’s have taken part in a very exciting music morning! Joined in the theatre by external music and instrumental teachers, Sandhill View was able to offer a workshop which...

Something Spooky in the Works

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Our performing arts enthusiasts are already hard at work prepping for our special Halloween school performance which will take place on Thursday 14th October between 5:30 – 7:00pm. Our budding thespians have been enhancing their best horror performances over lunch...

Alumni Ambassadors

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Well done to Leona Barker & Annabel Rooks, Sandhill View alumni who have gone on to a very successful start at our associated Sixth Form at Southmoor. Leona and Annabel have been fantastic ambassadors for the sixth form, speaking to Year 11 about their...

This Week in SMSC

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The new term has started exceptionally well in terms of our Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development here at Sandhill View. In SMSC lessons there have already been a number of interesting, engaging and mature discussions about topics ranging from puberty, commitment and...

Vaccination Update

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You will be aware from government announcements and media coverage that healthy children aged 12-15 are being offered the opportunity to have a first dose COVID-19 vaccine. This follows advice from the UK’s four chief medical officers who said that...

Building Resilience

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Recently in assemblies, we focused on the importance on having resilience. We all know life can be difficult sometimes, this is especially true for our teenage years, which can be a tumultuous time of change within ourselves and the relationships we have with our...

Numeracy Ninjas!

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Students are now underway with our special numeracy programme as part of tutor time activities. In Key Stage 3 they are completing our very exciting numeracy ninjas initiative, where students can gain different belts all the way up to maths...

Afghan Art

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Year 9 art students have been creating artwork exploring the current situation in Afghanistan inspired by the work of Shamsia Hassani. Hassani is the first female graffiti artist of Afghanistan who goes by the motto ‘Art changes people’s minds and people...

Welcome Back!

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It’s wonderful to finally get to see our students again. As the country recovers from the pandemic, we are delighted to be providing the crucial classroom learning we have been missing over the course of this pandemic. We have once again fully risk assessed our school and...

Hello, Year 7

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We are once again very happy to welcome out latest cohort of year 7 students into Sandhill View Academy. Our new pupils joined us on Wednesday looking impeccably smart, with plenty of smiles as they lined up in their new form classes. Students were...

Superb Summer School

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Over the summer we had a great time hosting year 6 students for our annual Summer School. This year we pulled out all the stops with all sorts of amazing activities from circus tricks to mass choreography to inflatable obstacle fun, archery, chocolate sculpting, junk...

We’ve Been Busy About the Building

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Our amazing site staff and contractors have been very busy over the summer break to improve our school building. We’ve not only added in new flooring and more coats of paint to freshen up the building but we’ve also improved...

Mr Bunn’s Game Show Brilliance

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Well done to our very own Curriculum Leader of Science, Mr Bunn who tested his general knowledge on national T.V. by taking on the tricky questions posed by popular quiz show ‘Who Want’s to be a Millionaire?’. Mr...

Introducing Class Charts

08 Sep 2021

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This year Sandhill View has started to use Class Charts to track and monitor behaviour and attendance. We will also be using it as our main form of home/school communication – replacing the MyEd app. ClassCharts is an award winning classroom management tool, which has been...

Open Evening 2021

20 Aug 2021

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Academy Open Evening: Monday 20th September at 5:00pm We are excited to once again throw open our doors and welcome everyone to our Academy Open Evening 2021! We really missed celebrating this event in school last year due to the pandemic, so this year there will be extra prizes...

GCSE Results Day 2021

12 Aug 2021

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Big GCSE Success for Sandhill View Students We were delighted to welcome our Class of 2021 back into Sandhill View to collect their well-deserved GCSE results today. There was a wonderful atmosphere as students celebrated receiving excellent grades. Sandhill View continued...

Celebrating Success

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We closed our school year by celebrating the success of our year groups. We were delighted to hand out more ‘SHV 1000’ certificates than ever before for the students who have accumulated 1000 praise points through this term. Well done to everyone who achieved this and an...

The Sandhill Games Return

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We saw the return of our Sandhill Games, where our students fight it out in earning glory for their house group. Pupils went head-to-head over a series of events including physical and mental challenges that really showed off the friendly competitive...

Year 10 Get a Taste of Sixth Form

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Year 10 students from Sandhill View Academy took the chance to discover our Sixth Form for a day of taster subjects. Students got the chance to try a breadth or reputable A-level subjects including: Art, Literature, Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Engineering, Photography,...

Literacy Bingo Bonanza

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Over the summer holidays we are encouraging our students to take part in a reading bingo challenge. Pupils can complete the literary based challenges on the bingo grid (see below!) to be in with a chance to win a prize. The closer they get to a full house, the better the prize...

Sandhill View Students Help Out Oxford University

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Sandhill View students Conner Henderson, Stuart Smith and Charlotte Potter took part in a Student panel for an Oxford University study about how the brain developments through time. Our students were impressive with how they represented the school and...

A Taste of What’s to Come

09 Jul 2021

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We welcomed our upcoming year 7 students for transition. Students had a chance to sample lessons they will have from September and meet new staff, as well as making new friends. We had an array of miniature towns made from nets in their maths lessons and explored the science...

Summer School Looms

09 Jul 2021

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We will be hosting a summer school for Year 6 and 7 students starting on 19th July for 1 week. There will be a range of fun activities on site including duck herding, a chocolate lab where students get the chance the make, and then eat their own chocolate creations as well...

A Push for Sustainability

09 Jul 2021

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We now have a textile recycling bank in our Year 7 yard. This can be used to recycle old textiles/shoes etc to reduce their environmental impact, or for donations to charity shops. If anyone has any newspapers/toilet roll tubes/coat hangers that are no longer wanted,...

The Scholars Graduate

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The Sandhill View and Southmoor Scholars graduated from the programme – a huge well done to everyone for their resilience, curiosity and hard work throughout the year! We were privileged to invite Revd. David Rushton from St Chad’s College, Durham University, as our...

Getting Active in Sports Week

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Year’s 7, 8 and 9 took part in Activ5 and National school sports week. They took part in mini mixed tournaments in bench ball and football and competed against each other in athletic events. Through sport, the students collectively worked on teamwork,...

Year 11 Art Exhibition

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We celebrated the fantastic artwork of Year 11 Art Class of 2021 with an exhibition of their work. The exhibition included pieces from the students during their time in Art, from Year 9 all the way through to Year 11. Family, friends and students were invited to celebrate from...

Skills Builder Silver

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We are delighted to announce that, following our participation in the Skills Builder Accelerator programme this year, we have been awarded with the SILVER Award. This is a significant achievement for our school and puts us in a select group of schools and colleges who have...

Welcome to SHV!

21 Jun 2021

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We recently welcomed our latest group of Year 6 students who will be moving into Year 7 in September for their official enrolment into Sandhill View Academy. Though we have had to arrange this day in a different manner to previous years due to COVID restrictions,...

Year 10 Visit Sunderland College

21 Jun 2021

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Year 10 students had an amazing taster day at Sunderland College. They took part in a variety of activities, which they had individually chosen based upon their future aspirations. The courses took place at Bede Campus and City Campus. The activities ranged from cyber...

Considering University

21 Jun 2021

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Year 9 students took part in a virtual lecture presented by Northumbria University. These lectures are designed to give students a taste of the academic subjects they might like to study at University and introduce exciting ideas across a wide range of topics. Our...

Year 8 Discuss Healthy Relationships

14 Jun 2021

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Our Year 8 students took part in a live session on the topic of healthy relationships and consent ran by Together for Children. Students focused on the idea of exactly what consent was, how it relates to the relationships we have and the importance of understanding what is and is...

Empathy Day

14 Jun 2021

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On Thursday 10h June in tutor time, students took the time to discuss the topic of empathy. We guided our pupils in the idea that having empathy is like putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and trying to understand the challenges that other people face. Through...

Updated Guidance on Close Contacts in a School Setting

14 Jun 2021

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NHS Test & Trace now offer a PCR test to anyone who is identified as needing to self-isolate due to being a close contact of a person who has tested positive for Covid-19. It is recognised that not all school-based contacts (e.g. school bubble) will flow...

So Long, Farewell

01 Jun 2021

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On Thursday, we said goodbye to our latest Year 11 cohort. Students have worked incredibly hard over the last few terms and will hopefully reap the rewards of their efforts in August! Our class of 2021 enjoyed the traditional ‘guard of honour’ upon leaving before a goodbye...

Fighting for your Dreams

01 Jun 2021

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Year 11 students enjoyed some inspirational words on their final day in school from MMA Fighter and Sandhill View Alumnus, Cal Ellenor. Cal is a successful Mixed Martial Arts sportsman with many professional bouts under his belt. Cal talked about the hard work...

Careers Explorer Day

01 Jun 2021

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Last week, our Year 10 students had the opportunity to explore more about the world of work and to learn about possible future pathways with our first ever Virtual Work Experience and Careers Explorer days. These events took place over two days. On day one, students...

Developing Skills in Photography

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A selected group of art students enjoyed workshop lessons with guest tutor Mat Fleming from The Baltic Art Gallery. Pupils explored film photography and created their own film reel with sharpie pens and inks. They also explored cyanotypes and creating photographs with developer...

Student Council Meetings

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Student councillors met again with Mrs Maw. This year council meetings have been split to match our bubbles but that has meant that each year groups has had more time to discuss the issues that matter most to them. Last time we met, students in years 7, 8 and 9 said they wanted...

Yet More Riot Act

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Year 8 took part in a live virtual performance by The Riot Act called ‘Josh Green’. This lively virtual presentation was delivered in classrooms and gave students the opportunity to explore pedestrian safety, including on public transport, raising awareness of pedestrian dangers...

Cutting County Lines

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Northumbria Police have produced a leaflet on the subject of ‘County Lines’. County Lines is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries (although not exclusively), usually by children or...

Virtual Work Experience