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In assemblies every year group took part in Remembrance Day commemorations. Students reflected on why we mark Remembrance Day alongside an impeccably observed two-minute silence with the rest of the nation at 11:00am. This year students...

Pals Battalion

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Year 9 students took part in a workshop with Pals Battalion. Students virtually met Henry – a WW1 soldier – who spoke about his experiences in the trenches. They were given the opportunity to ask questions about aspects of life...

Careers in Art Week

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As part of Craeers in Art week, Year 10 art students have been commissioned to create artwork for the Senior Teams office inspired by inspirational people. Mrs Dodd and Mr Castling will choose their favourites to be framed and displayed in their office. There will also...

Sandhill Scholars Expand Their Language Horizons

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Ramzi Merabet, Leeds University, delivered an Arabic taster session to the scholars. Students began by discussing the benefits of learning Arabic, and were surprised to learn how widely spoken the language is. They then worked in pairs to recite basic greetings, such as...

Crisp Packets Wanted!

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As part of our school-wide Eco Drive, students in our Bridge provision have set up a school-wide programme to collect empty crisp packets which will be recycled and made into space blankets and sleeping bags for homeless people. We need pupils and their parents to help by...

Sunderland School Indoor Athletics

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Year 8 students represented Sandhill View Academy at the Sunderland Schools’ Indoor Athletics Competition. Students competed in six track events and five field events. All students gave 100% effort and showed great resilience and teamwork throughout. Official results...

The Goings Good!

12 Nov 2021

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It’s Official, Sandhill View Academy is a ‘Good’ School Staff and students at Sandhill View Academy are delighted to be officially recognised as a good school in all areas, following their recent Ofsted inspection. In his feedback to senior leaders, lead inspector Carl...

Sandhill Scholars at St Chads

08 Nov 2021

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Year 10 participants of our scholars’ programme attended St Chad’s College in Durham. Scholars had lunch, a welcome meeting from the principal, a student life talk with ambassadors and a college tour. Sandhill Scholars is...

On An Eco Drive

08 Nov 2021

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In conjunction with the COP26 climate change conferenc we wanted to have a massive push on raising environmental awareness and doing our bit to support the planet. We have purchased new recycling bins for both paper and plastic which are now situated around...

Autumn Activities in Action

08 Nov 2021

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Over half term we hosted a selection of activities for students to enjoy as part of our Autumn Activities. Pupils got the chance to compete in various multi-sports and crafts activities as part of the provision we provide every Autumn Half Term.

Spooky Spectacular Shocks

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We were delighted to welcome a sold-out audience into the academy after school hours for our first show of the academic year. Pupils have been working incredibly hard on the show since the start of term, using their lunch breaks and after-school free time to perfect their...

I Spy

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MFL Enrichment is welcoming SHV pupils who want to learn ‘How to become a Spy or a Special Agent’. The club meets after school on a Monday in MFLIT and complete challenges in their own handbooks called ‘The Secret Agent’s Handbook of Language Challenges’. Pupils use the...

Careers in Biology Week

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Biology is the study of life. It is an exciting time to be a biologist. Biologists are working to solve some of the world’s the biggest challenges currently faced by people and the planet – fighting disease, protecting the environment, and feeding our growing...

Wonderful Watercolours

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Students created beautiful expressive artwork using online tutorials to build confidence to work independantly over half term. We are so impressed with them and their dedication this term, well done to our Year 10 artists!

This Week in SMSC

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In personal development assemblies, students focused on the idea of aiming high. Our school motto is ‘Aspire, Achieve, Enjoy’ which was strongly reflected in this week’s theme, challenging our students to go further and strive to reach new goals they might not have...

Hitting a High at the Sunderland School Games

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Sandhill View attended the first event of the Sunderland School Games. We took a team of students to AAA Sports Centre to compete in the Sunderland Schools Trampoline Competition. All the students did extremely well, completing the next step 3...

Year 7 in the Kitchen

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Year 7 students got the chance to take their first practical lessons in technology as they donned their aprons and prepared their ingredients. Pupils created a delicious vegetable soup using fresh ingredients with some fantastic results despite this being the first time...

Special Guest Speaks on LGBTQ+

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Sandhill View students were privileged to receive a visit from a very special guest: Michael Mather, star of Channel 4’s It’s A Sin and numerous West End productions, delivered an inspirational talk to all of our pupils about the LGBTQ+ community, its history, the HIV...

#HelloYellow

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We once again showed our support for World Mental Health Day by encouraging students to wear something yellow to school. Students substituted items of their uniform with something yellow to show their support for mental wellbeing and the #HelloYellow campaign led by the...

BookBuzz Returns

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We are once again taking part in the ever popular ‘Book Buzz’ campaign. Students from Year 7 and 8 found out about the free selection of books that were on offer for this year’s Book Buzz initiative. From horror to historical drama, action adventure to slice of life...

This Week in SMSC

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In personal development assemblies, students have been learning about and celebrating British Values all week, with pupils demonstrating their understanding of Rule of Law, Democracy, Mutual Respect and Tolerance and Individual Liberty. One year 10 student summed it up best...

Positive Points Add Up to Success

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Jaxon Gunn (Year 7) recently earned 65 positive praise points through our new ClassCharts system. This was the highest in his year group and won him two tickets for the Sunderland Vs Cheltenham game which were presented to him in...

Thrilling Football Trials

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Our young footballers laced up their boots and showed us their skills in our after-school football trials. There was already some fantastic teamwork on display as some of our most football fanatical students took to the pitch. Thank you to everyone who took part, there was...

Help with Maths Adds Up

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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