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Earlier this term the Eco Team received the fantastic news that they have been selected as one of ten school gardening groups nationally to go through to the next round of the RHS School Gardening Team of the Year! This is an absolutely superb achievement and proof...

Army Youth Challenge

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Students from year’s 9 and 10 travelled to Albemarle Barracks to take part in the Army Youth Challenge course. Students took part in activities such as an assault course, fitness tests, bridge building, observation tasks and a careers talk. The students successfully...

Fake Exam Material Warning

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We are aware of reports of Summer 2023 exam materials being advertised on social media platforms, such as TikTok, Instagram and Telegram. We constantly monitor these platforms and we’re in touch with them to try and remove these posts. Please let your...

Search for a Star 2023

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Last week saw the return of the annual Sunderland Search for a Star, held at Sunderland College’s Bede Campus Arts Academy Theatre. With a panel of esteemed judges, the different acts of varying artforms performed in their bid for a chance to win a recording session at the...

The STEM Truck Parks Up at SHV

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Last week the STEM truck came to Sandhill View and allowing our Year 8 students to engage and interact with a range of activities that are linked to STEM careers and the science that underpins them, by exploring the physics of motorsport through materials, power and...

High Flying SHV Student

24 Apr 2023

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Congratulations to Sandhill View Alumnus Kalvin Sloan who recently completed his RAF basic training with the traditional passing out parade. Everyone (including Kalvin) is amazed with how well he’s done considering how hard it is with tests every other day on...

Careers in Photography

24 Apr 2023

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This week students explored the myriad range of careers available in Photography. Photography is used extensively in all aspects of our modern lives and connects with many other subjects beyond the creative industry such as journalism, historical archivism, science and ecology,...

Coastal Investigations

24 Apr 2023

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Year 10 have had a fabulous day at the beach collecting their primary data for their Physical enquiry. They have measured the rate of longshore drift, sand accumulation by the groynes and completed annotated field sketches. It’s been a memorable experience which will help...

More Maths Bright Ideas

03 Apr 2023

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Sandhill View’s top Mathematicians of Year 9 visited the Common Room of the North last week to continue with their Bright Sparks Programme. They learned how to use modular arithmetic which is typically taught at Degree level! They demonstrated their amazing abilities in...

Science Escape!

03 Apr 2023

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Last week in Science, students have been participating in a special ‘Escape Room’ task. Pupils were split into teams and given the task of unlocking a sequence of tricky puzzles to test their science know how. Deciphering codes using the periodic table, unravelling biology brain...

Fundraising Theatre Fun

03 Apr 2023

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Last week we helped raise money for Red Nose Day 2023 by staging a special panto of Aladdin in front of a packed out theatre and delivered by our fantastic performing arts group, with help from pantomime specialist Rob Wilson Baker. Our fundraising event also included...

Threads and Photography

29 Mar 2023

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Students have been exploring the work of Julie Cockburn, a photographer who uses vintage photographs. The photographer stitches, paints and distorts the faces of these figures. Year 10 Photography students have been using acrylic paint and stitching to replicate her style. The...

Southmoor Scholars Study Informed Choices

28 Mar 2023

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The scholar’s received a presentation about making informed choices. This was delivered by Bex who works for an outreach team at Sunderland Univeristy. Bex showed students how to reflect on themselves and ways that they can make good positive decisions.

Sunderland Station Project

28 Mar 2023

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Local artist, Kerry Cook from The Art Room, Sunderland is working towards making six large scale artworks for the new train station in the city centre. Year 8 students have been selected to take part to celebrate their creativity and engagement in both art and geography lessons....

On An Energy Quest

27 Mar 2023

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Our Year 9’s had a visit from ‘Energy Quest’ to get them thinking like engineers and come up with solutions to problems. The main problems were charging a phone with limited resources and making clean water from river water. The students were quick to make acid...

Easter Revision Sessions

27 Mar 2023

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We are providing Easter revision sessions for students who wish to boost their exam preparation over the Easter break. Please refer to the table below for information on when our extra revision sessions are available. All revision sessions will take place in the LRC and...

Back in Time at Beamish

27 Mar 2023

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Year 8 students took time out of school to attend Beamish Museum. Pupils had fun exploring the outdoor museum as well as learning about the tremendous changes to our lives that the Industrial Revolution is responsible for.

Year 11 in Focus

22 Mar 2023

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The annual Year 11 group photograph, to celebrate moving toward the end of Key Stage 4, took place. With the help of some glorious sunshine, we managed to capture some great shots of students looking smart together as a year group. Photographs will be available to purchase later...

Spring Has Almost Sprung For Our Eco Team

22 Mar 2023

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Whilst the first day of meteorological spring has passed, we certainly haven’t escaped the grips of winter, with snow and cold temperatures hampering spring preparations in the garden. However, students have been working on a variety of projects from ecological ‘dead...

Wall to Wall Displays

21 Mar 2023

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The school’s corridors are steadily looking neater and brighter as we continue to roll-out changes to décor around the building. This has included yet more floor-to-ceiling displays to help fill some of the blank walls in our corridors with informative and creative designs...

Steel Solutions

21 Mar 2023

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Some of our Year 10 pupils visited Intelligent Steel Solutions to learn how the skills and knowledge developed in their Geography and Engineering lessons can benefit them in their future careers. They were spoken to by Quantity Surveyor, Victoria Jelly, who was able to share...

In to Win

20 Mar 2023

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Our attendance and behaviour incentives are back this half term with various ways our students can win prizes for being in school with good behaviour. The Top 15 students with the most improved attendance this term will go into a draw for their parents/carers to win a £30...

Panto Preparations

20 Mar 2023

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Our fantastic performing arts group have been preparing for the Red Nose Day Panto, Aladdin, with Panto specialist Rob Wilson Baker. Tickets go on sale soon for our fundraising event which includes face painting, a raffle and refreshments, we can’t wait to see you there!

Independent Art

14 Mar 2023

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Year 10 students have been asked to choose their own creative path they’d like to explore as part of their art coursework. Students have taken inspiration from movies, music and popular culture. Thank you to Maddison Smith (red ink and clay piece), Louisa Turnbull...

The Five Ways of Wellbeing

14 Mar 2023

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Students in Years 7 to 10 have continued to learn about the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’ – five things we can all do every day to improve our mental health. Conveniently, the five ways can be easily remembered by using the acronym MAGIC: Mindful, Active, Generous,...

Sandhill Scholars Study Sunderland University

14 Mar 2023

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The Scholars visited Sunderland University what a day they had! They listened to presentations about Sunderland University, toured the city campus and saw the uni students hard at work in seminar rooms and relaxing in the many cafés onsite. In the afternoon the students...

Sandhill Ski 2023 Hits The Slopes

13 Mar 2023

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Some of our students went on our annual ski visit to Vallnord in Andorra with a specialist in school ski visits. Skiers of all abilities enjoyed a fantastic week with excellent conditions of fresh snow to either learn the basics or challenge their skills on the more advanced...

Year 7 On Expedition

13 Mar 2023

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24 Year 7 pupils had a fantastic time in Blencathra. They developed new fieldwork skills, including completing a river investigation to identify changes in width, depth and velocity as we moved downstream. We completed activities including Bush Crafts, mammal hunts and team...

Thinking Theatre

08 Mar 2023

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Some of our students had the chance to visit Sunderland Empire to watch the National Theatre’s performance of the ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane’. The show embarks on a journey to a childhood once forgotten. They discover an ‘ocean’…where anything...

Building the Future

07 Mar 2023

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Year 9 students were introduced to a brand new project with Newcastle University. The project is open to a group of students where they will learn about architecture, engineering and biotechnology. They will build model houses of the future at the university and they will be put...

Bright Sparks Shine Through

06 Mar 2023

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The top mathematicians from Year 10 attended another Bright Sparks event where they used Pascal’s triangle to perform binomial expansion and learned how to use factorials. They represented the school very well at this multi-school event.

World Book Day 2023

06 Mar 2023

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We love to celebrate World Book Day at Sandhill View as we recognise the importance of instilling a love of reading within our students. World Book Day is an important date on our school calendar as we relish the opportunity to share our love of books and our favourite stories...

Year 9 Progress Evening Incoming

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Our Year 9 Progress evening is this week on Wednesday 1st March, from 4pm – 6:30pm. We hope to have a similar fantastic turn out from parents and carers as we had at our recent Options Information Evening. This will be a chance to discuss with your child’s tutors about their...

Super Scientists Making Magic

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Year 4 pupils from Hastings Hill Academy came for their first visit to Sandhill View Science department, where they tried to recreate the magic of Harry Potter spells by burning different chemicals and observing what colour the flame changed to. They also enjoyed the...

World Book Day on the Way

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World Book Day is just around the corner, on Thursday 2nd March 2023. As always, this mission of WBD is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of...

Sandhill Scholars Discover New Subjects

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Sandhill View Scholars payed a visit to Southmoor to experience life in sixth form. They took part in a very exciting Biology lesson where they learnt about DNA and made models. They looked at the specification for A-level Biology and how it was building on their...

Outdoor Mindfulness

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For Children’s Mental Health Week, gardening and being in nature is a fantastic opportunity to reflect and help support our mental health. Around school the first sets of snowdrops have begun popping up, and goat willow has started developing male catkins which looks like...

Making Memories with Sandhill Scholars

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The Scholars students were greeted by Katie from Durham. Katie is a Phycologist and lectures at Durham University. In addition to this she carries out fascinating research on how to improve working memory. The students took part in an actual university lecture where they listened...

Primary Friends Enjoy a Music Workshop

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We invited in Year 3 pupils in from Hastings Hill Academy to take part in a special music workshop. Our primary friends had a great time learning about the basic concepts in music such as pitch, tone and volume before putting what they learned into practice on some of the musical...

National Apprenticeship Week