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Congratulations to Alex Clark (Year 9) She has been working really hard not only schoolwork but also baking, cooking, gardening, looking after and entertaining Milo her dog, ‘pampering’ her mum and keeping herself fit. What an all round star! Other winners this week...

Student Entrepreneurs Making the Most of Lockdown

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A couple of our enterprising students are making the most of their time over lock down! Niall Aiston (Year 7) has been tendering his own horticultural business, cutting grass around his neighbourhood and tidying lawns, he even has his own logos and uniform. During lockdown he has...

Celebrating VE Day

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Our students have been celebrating the VE Day commemorations at home despite the nationwide lockdown. Pupils and their families took the time to paint murals, put up banners and throw tea parties to help mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe and the defeat of the Nazis...

A Splash of Solidarity

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Head of Year 7, Mrs Scott, has challenged our students to an ice bucket challenge as a bit of fun to boost moral and ensure we remain a team in Year 7. In these stressful and anxious times, we want to remind our pupils and parents that although when we go to school, we work hard...

Headteacher’s Award

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Congratulations to Ava Nicholson who is this week’s recipient of our headteacher’s award. Ava has shown an amazing commitment to at home learning for science, creating a bio dome, taking a Skype science lesson with her uncle and learning about food chains. She has also...

Students Helping Out at Home

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Our fastidious students have not just been hard at work doing their home learning tasks but have also been lending a hand around the house and garden, helping with all many of home projects to help keep them busy during the lockdown period. Here are just some of the projec...

Taking the Captain Tom Challenge

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Our PE Department have challenged our staff and students to take on the ‘Captain Tom 100 Challenge’ in celebration of Captain Tom Moore who raised million for the NHS by walking lengths of his garden for his 100th Birthday. The challenge asks participants to complete 100 of...

Student Art Gallery

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We’re celebrating the talent of some of our young artists over the next few weeks by bringing you a mini art exhibition of their work for you to enjoy. Below you will find some of the artwork we’ve had submitted by students before and during the lockdown period. We hope you enjoy...

Sport at a Distance

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The children of key workers have been enjoying one of the few sports we can do safely with social distancing during the international outbreak. Pupils picked up their foils and donned masks of a different kind to try their hand at fencing. You can view a short video of their...

Remembering Our Spring Term

04 May 2020

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As we continue home learning into our Summer Term we’ve taken the time to make a short video with a look back at what our students got up to over our Spring Term. We hope this serves as a reminder of the good times our students had at school earlier this year and helps them look...

Turning the Page on our Reading Challenge

04 May 2020

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Our ‘100 Days of Reading’ challenge continues unabated by the school closures, with students taking the chance to fill long days spent stuck at home with a good book, filling their time, igniting their imaginations and improving their literacy all at once! Here’s what some...

Headteacher’s Award

04 May 2020

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This week’s award goes to Adam Young (Year 8) who has astounded us all with his amazing response to the Keith Haring graffiti project! The aim of Haring’s work was to inspire others and brighten up the spaces in worked in. We love how he has not only created...

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

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Keeping Children Safe Online Parents are reminded to carefully monitor their child’s online activity and speak regularly to them about digital safety at this time of heightened use. Please contact your child’s head of year via the MyEd app if you have any concerns. Free School...

Messages to Year 11

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Mrs Maw Miss A. Wright Miss Gallon Mrs E. Wright Mrs K. Parker Mr A. Goodwin Mrs A. Johnston

Supporting Our Community

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56 families received free breakfast items today via our link with the Magic Breakfast team. Those families that responded to the MyEd message asking if they would welcome breakfast provision picked up packs for a fortnight’s worth of breakfasts for each child in the...

Post 16 Pathways

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We have produced this helpful guide for parents and students to explain the different post-16 pathways available to students at the end of their time in secondary education. Click here to download our helpful leaflet that will explain the options available to your child.

Year 7 Making Rainbows

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Our creative Year 7 students have turned their skills to showing their support for our amazing NHS during the lockdown period by creative rainbows. You can see a selection of their submissions below.

Stage Success

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Year 7 and 8 were set a project over Easter holidays to make a Theatre Box for Drama, designing their own sets in miniature. They have clearly worked hard and had fun at the same time. You will all agree how wonderful it is to see all of the wonderful work produced by our...

Headteacher’s Award

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Congratulations to Oliver Cowie (Year 7) who has managed to be the first ever student to win a Headteacher’s Award from home! Oliver has also helped to raise money with the help of his fantastic football teams, coaches and family members who were challenged to do 10,000...

Ofqual Announcement on GCSE Grades

17 Apr 2020

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Ofqual Announcement on GCSE and A Level Grades Ofqual have just given further information about how GCSE and A-level grades will be calculated. The full details can be found on Ofqual website and in the letters to parents section which can be found here: Letter to Students Summer...

Student Work of the Week

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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...

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...

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...

Row the Distance

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After qualifying in December at the Sunderland School Games indoor rowing competition, Ava McCully (Year 7) represented Sandhill View at the Tyne and Wear indoor rowing finals. Ava competed against 18 other Year 7 girls from Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle and South Tyneside....

Getting Creative in Keeping Children Safe

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A number our Year 9 Photography students put together entries for the city-wide ‘Sunderland Safeguarding Children Partnership’ competition. The entries were voted upon during a recent safeguarding conference and Sandhill View students took the top three prizes! Well done to...

Young Song Writer Wonders

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Well done to our aspiring musicians who took part in the ‘New Young Writers’ celebration at the National Glass Centre. There were some fantastic performances from schools across our city and Sandhill View students did not disappoint with their contribution. Well done!

An Angelic Art Visit

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On a recent research trip to The Baltic, our GCSE Art students had the amazing opportunity to be present for the unveiling of The Knife Angel sculpture, which is temporarily on display by the Sage in Gateshead. The Knife Angel is a 27ft sculpture crafted out of 100,000 knives...

Sorcerous Sandhill Scholars