Sandhill View Academy

Super Scientists Making Magic

27 Feb 2023

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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

27 Feb 2023

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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

27 Feb 2023

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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

15 Feb 2023

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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

15 Feb 2023

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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

15 Feb 2023

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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

15 Feb 2023

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To mark National Apprenticeships week we have been linking in information about apprenticeships into every subject lesson across all year groups. Pupils had the chance to learn more about the growing popularity of apprenticeships, what they are, how they work and how you can...

Options Evening Success!

14 Feb 2023

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Our Year 9 Options Information Evening was a massive success. We had a fantastic turn out of pupils and parents who joined us to learn more about the options subjects available to them for next year. The pathways students choose to take now are very important ones as they will...

Reading Leaders Ready!

14 Feb 2023

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We presented our Year 10 Reading Leaders with their certificates and SHV badges for successfully completing their Coram Beanstalk’s Reading Leaders Training Course. These students are going to work closely with some of our Year 8 students to help improve their confidence...

Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week

14 Feb 2023

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The theme of CMHW this year is ‘Let’s Connect’, and up and down the country children have been working together to forge stronger relationships with one another, improving wellbeing and mental health in the process. In conjunction with the mental health charity Place2Be, the...

Influential Art

08 Feb 2023

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Year 10 art students have been creating paintings inspired by influential people in our culture inspired by Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama presidential campaign artwork. Thank you to Grace, Micheal, Erin, Olivia H and Olivia B for your striking work!

Gentoo Drop into our Aspire Hub

07 Feb 2023

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We welcomed KS4 students to join a special representative from Gentoo in the Aspire Hub who spoke about some of the amazing careers available with the company. Gentoo are a local housing association responsible for housing over 60,000 people within the city. Each year the...

Tournament Action for our Year 8 Girls’ Footballers

07 Feb 2023

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The Year 8 girls travelled to Kepier School for a football tournament. They were placed in a group with Oxclose, Farringdon and our Trust rivals Southmoor. They thoroughly enjoyed their first tournament experience and had fun whilst braving the cold weather. Well done to our...

Options Evening Incoming!

06 Feb 2023

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Our wonderful Year 9 students embarked on their options journey, where they all experienced six taster sessions in subjects that are not taught on the KS3 curriculum but offered at KS4. Students had hands on taster sessions in Child Development, Engineering, Photography...

Year 10 Look to the Future at the Sixth Form

06 Feb 2023

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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, Health...

Eco Team Full of Flutter in Our School Garden

01 Feb 2023

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The Eco Team took part in the RSPB’s Big Bird Count. Students visited the new bird feeding station in the garden and spent an hour recording the species of bird that visited the garden. The information gathered is then submitted to the RSPB to help them monitor garden bird...

Sunderland Smart City

31 Jan 2023

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Colleagues from across the Trust met at Sandhill View to hear a special presentation from Naomi Hutchinson, who is Chief Innovation and Growth Officer at Sunderland City Council. Naomi presented to colleagues about the latest developments in the city as Sunderland develops into a...

Year 8 Consider NHS Careers

31 Jan 2023

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Our Year 8 students were given a live performance entitled ‘Why Care?’. The show was a high impact, exciting educational theatre performance that raises awareness of the rewarding world of healthcare in a fun 40-minute interactive experience. As well as, challenge misconceptions...

Sandhill Scholars Look to there Future

30 Jan 2023

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Scholars welcomed Steph from Durham University into school where they developed their ‘Go Further’ listening skills by taking part in a lecture about careers. They learnt about a wide range of careers and skills that they would need to access them. Steph spoke about...

Beating the January Blues

30 Jan 2023

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Year 10 took part in a mental health and wellbeing group workshop. Mental health is an important topic that our students know well, by recognising and understanding the mental health issues young people can face in their formative years, including – anxiety, stress, anger, and...

Star Seekers

30 Jan 2023

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We were delighted to host a special day for our primary friends alongside guests from Kielder Observatory. Nestled in the Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland, Kielder Observatory is part of a nearly 580 square mile dark sky zone, known at Northumberland and Kielder...

Go Smarter with The Riot Act

25 Jan 2023

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Year 7 took part in a live performance by The Riot Act called ‘Go Smarter’. This lively presentation was delivered in our theatre and gave students the opportunity to raise awareness of a range of benefits available to young people who choose to be independent and sustainable...

SHV Student Running Her Way Into The Top 10

24 Jan 2023

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Well done to Lexi Brown who has been selected to run for county Durham in the inter counties rounds of the school cross country championships. Lexi recently represented Sandhill View Academy and Wearside last Saturday and finished an amazing 7th out of 74 runners....

New Music Clubs Sound Out

23 Jan 2023

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We saw the introduction of some brand-new music clubs to our roster of performing arts activities that students can enjoy during and after school. This includes a drumming club, a beginners guitar club and a keyboard club, available to all students who wish to tune up their...

Polish Pencil Pals

17 Jan 2023

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Students in 7A and 7B had the exciting opportunity to share work with a Polish Pen Pal from Kaska Szkola School in Opolu. Students created portraits inspired by artist Julian Opie and shared their hobbies, pets and brief information about themselves. Students from both schools...

Autumn Term Activities Day 2022

16 Jan 2023

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Just before the Christmas break, students had the chance to take part in a roster of interesting and exciting activities both in and away from school as part of our Activities Award Day for the Autumn Term. Students had the chance to enjoy trips to the Christmas Markets in...

Careers in Geography Week

20 Dec 2022

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Careers in Geography saw pupils become part of the Immediate Response Team in Nepal in charge of making on the spot decisions of where and when to send relief and rescue teams during the disastrous earthquake there in 2015. Pupils worked in groups to decide which...

Sandhill Scholars Investigate Newcastle University

20 Dec 2022

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Scholars’ students have had a very busy week! They spent a day at Newcastle University where they experienced lectures in actual lecture theatres, looked around the campus to see what it would be like to study and live there and had a lovely lunch time in the city...

Cross Country Champs

19 Dec 2022

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Sandhill View students put their running trainers on to take part in the Sunderland Cross Country championships. It was a very cold wintery morning but that didn’t stop our student’s effort and determination. All the runners performed well, and we had students who...

It’s Christmas!

19 Dec 2022

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We get into the Christmas mood today by holding special Christmas assemblies for all year groups. The assemblies involved Christmas based carols and performances from our school choir and Performing Arts department. Keep an eye out for our first blog of the new year for more...

The Spirit of Giving

14 Dec 2022

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We will be supporting our local community food bank again this year for those families who would benefit from a little extra support this winter. Staff and students have already started to generously donate tinned items to go towards this cause. We are also working...

Freaky Forensics with Sandhill Scholars

13 Dec 2022

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Scholars were exposed to the life of a forensic scientist, looking at a crime scene, collecting evidence and analysing it. They had the luxury of taking their own fingerprints and designing a key ring souvenir. Lots of fun had by all!

Field to Fork

13 Dec 2022

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The Eco Team as we celebrated World Soil Day on the 5th December. We discussed the importance of soil and looked at how we can be more sustainable in our growing methods to build a healthier soil. Students have also picked Brussel Sprouts to be used in the Christmas dinner, which...

Year 7 Progress Evening Success

12 Dec 2022

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We welcomed in Year 7 parents and carers for an after school catch-up with tutors. This was their first chance to hear directly from the people that educate their children how they are performing in each subject as well as their strengths and areas for improvement. Face-to-face...

Celebrating Christmas Jumper Day

12 Dec 2022

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We took part in Save the Children’s annual Christmas Jumper Day. Pupils were asked to attend school wearing a suitably seasonal jumper alongside their usual school uniform as well as make a voluntary donation to the charity. Thank you to everyone that got into the festive spirit...

SETA on Engineering

07 Dec 2022

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We were joined in a special assembly by Seta. Seta is a long-established, not-for-profit engineering and business training provider based in Northeast England. They deliver accredited, industry recognised training, including apprenticeships, up to an advanced level particularly...

Riot Act on Road Safety

07 Dec 2022

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Year 8 took part in a live theatre-style performance by The Riot Act called ‘Josh Green’. This lively presentation gave students the opportunity to explore pedestrian safety, including on public transport, raising awareness of pedestrian dangers such as distractions (phones,...

Terrific Trampolining

06 Dec 2022

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Students in years 7, 8 and 9 competed in the Sunderland schools Trampoline competition. All of our students performed well and made Sandhill View proud. Our KS3 boys came first and KS3 girls second in the intermediate team category. All the students showed great sportsmanship and...

Sandhill Scholars

06 Dec 2022

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The scholars were greeted by Izzy from Newcastle University who spoke to them about what a degree in Politics would be like and the requirements to study at Newcastle. They also completed their very own debate at the end of the session.

SHV Girls Make Their Dodgeball Debut

05 Dec 2022

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Girls form Year 7 and 8 travelled to Monkwearmouth for the Sunderland School Games Dodgeball competition. They competed against several teams from Oxclose, St Anthony’s, Kepier and Argyle House. This was the first competition some of our students had attended. The girls did...

Wear Here for You

05 Dec 2022

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We were visited by one of the fleet of buses that have taken to the roads of our local area as part of an ambitious plan to transform mental health support for young people over the next five years. The programme, known as ‘Wear Here for You’ includes creating a safe space for...

The Power of Science

05 Dec 2022

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The Royal Institute descended on Sandhill View to inspire and entertain the students and community by telling a story of power. Multiple demonstrations of fire and loud bangs helped to engage and spark students’ imaginations. The experiments performed told the story of...

Keeping Children Safe Online with Northumbria Police

30 Nov 2022

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Exposure to online pornography and violent material from a young age can lead a child to seek out more extreme content, including images of children who are being sexually abused. Police nationally are seeing a rise in this activity. This year, Northumbria Police have...

New Displays Brighten Our Building

30 Nov 2022

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Our school building is looking much more colourful this term thanks to yet more displays along our corridors. Our design team have been hard at work creating bespoke educational displays that have just been installed by our site team in locations across the school. These wall to...

Art That’s On Point

30 Nov 2022

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In our artist workshop, Year 9 pupils learnt how to do drypoint etchings using tools to scratch into plastic to copy some of the patterns and pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels. Shiori Naruse brought a printing press into school and we printed our own etchings using different...

Enriching Drama

29 Nov 2022

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Following the huge success of Matilda The Musical last July we are ‘dramatically’ back at work here at Sandhill View. The Performing Arts Enrichment Group, led by Mr. Sanderson and our West End Superstar practitioner Katie Brace, have been working on a new...

Myths & Legends with Sandhill Scholars

29 Nov 2022

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Scholar students were delighted to hear from Hannah again, all the way from Oxford university. The students received a student taster session on Greek Mythology. It was very interesting and was fabulous to see the students look so excited about the interesting stories and...

Teach Meet 2022

29 Nov 2022

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We participated in our annual ‘Teach Meet’ event at Southmoor Academy during staff training, where Sandhill View staff joined their colleagues from Southmoor Academy to host insightful discussions on the teaching and education of pupils across the Academy Trust. This year’s event...

New Head Students Elected

28 Nov 2022

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We celebrated the democratic process by electing our new Head Students for the rest of the academic year. Every pupil was given their chance to cast their vote from a list of candidates and we are delighted to announce that this year’s representatives are Lara Dickson and Callum...

A Touch of Frost for the Eco Team

28 Nov 2022

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Temperatures have certainly dropped, the polytunnel thermometer reading -1.1 recently! The Eco Team have planted their first tree of the 2022-2023 tree planting season, around the forest classrooms. Students have also begun splitting the exiting rhubarb crown in the...

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