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Connecting with our Friends in Africa

Sandhill had a visit from our friends Grace and Festo. They travelled all of the way from our charity link school, St John’s School in Tanzania, to meet our staff and students and to see the vast changes Sandhill has gone through since their previous visit.  Although their...
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Entering The Litter Lab

Our students were invited to enter the ‘Litter Lab’ in assemblies presented by the national ‘Bin It!’ campaign.  The campaign has been running since 2006 and has grown to support schools and teachers in a multitude of ways.  Each year the Bin It! roadshow...
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Sandhill View at The Sixth Form

On Thursday we invited a group of Year 11 students from our partner school, Sandhill View Academy, to visit Sixth Form and experience a taste of life after GCSEs. Our visitors experienced taster lessons in English, Law and Biology and chatted with current Sixth Formers (whom...
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Pupils in Paris

Over half term, a group of our ICT students visited paris to attend the ‘ICT Live!’ conference. The group had plenty of time to take in the sites and sounds of the city of lights, including a River Cruise on the beautiful Seine where our pupils we learnt about the...
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Olympic Visitor

On Thursday, we were proud to host Olympic bronze medallist and local girl, Amy Tinkler – along with other local schools who came to visit and hear about her inspiring life. Amy dazzled our students with a short floor display before taking questions and answers from our...
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Rich Rocks SHV

Thank you to the the amazing Mr. Rich Cottell for joining us at the Academy yesterday to speak to our students about British Values, anti-bullying and staying safe online and how these important issues relate to young people. Rich is a talented musician and online personality...
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Heaps of Fun

Thank you to Craig Heap for visiting us and our students as part of the ‘Sky Living for Sports’ event, linking to our growth mindset programme. Craig is a retired Commonwealth Games Gold medal winning gymnast who has represented England over 100 times in various...
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Author Spooks Year 7

A huge thank you to world renowned author Joseph Delaney who came into school before half term to present to our Year 7’s about his life as an author and the influences behind his multimillion selling Wardstone Chronicles series. The highlight of this was hearing Joseph describe...
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Baltic Creative Careers Visit

  As a way to kick start a brand new GCSE course at SHV we took the entire photography cohort to the Baltic centre for contemporary art in Gateshead and to the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to take some exciting shots for their projects. Students attended various...
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