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Channel 4 Returns!

Last Tuesday, Michael Longhi from Channel 4 returned to school to, once again, talk to all Year 7 students and deliver a virtual Q&A panel with other representatives from Channel 4. During the Q&A panel, students heard from 4 employees who work at Channel 4 about their...
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Southmoor Students Hit The Court In Newcastle

Last Wednesday saw our under 16 basketball team compete in the Northeast regional basketball finals. This was following a very successful Sunderland competition just before February half term. Our combined team of Year 10s and 11s attended the event at the Newcastle Eagles’...
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Great Success at National Careers Week 2024

We launched National Careers Week on Monday last week with a special virtual assembly with Year 11 in the Hall and the rest of the school watching on Teams. For the launch, we were delighted to hear from Leanne Cahill, CEO of Bravissimo and Chancellor of Sunderland University – a...
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Off To See The Wizard!

Our talented cast of students alongside a dedicated team of backstage, lighting and sound volunteers as well as live musicians brought the magic of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ to life with our very own stage production of this classic show. Across a spectacular three nights, including an...
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Southmoor Students Shine

On Wednesday, six members of our Student Council took part in a very exciting photoshoot at Penshaw Monument with the Shine Trust. It was a real privilege for our students to be the face of a press release by the Shine Trust about the launch of a £10million fund to support...
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Students Devour a Maths Feast

Two teams of Southmoor pupils took part in MATHS FEAST, a competition for Year 10 mathematicians. Rounds included TV quiz solutions , Calculator cross number solutions, Maths-Hatters and a Rhombic Dodecahedra building. Both teams used problem solving, team building, and aiming...
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Floating Ideas with Northern Gas Networks

Last week was Hydrogen Week! We welcomed Alex from Northern Gas Networks to deliver a session to our wonderful 10A2 science class. Alex spoke about “bond energies”, a topic which is also on the GCSE specification, and how this can be applied to the combustion of...
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National Careers Week

This week is the annual National Careers Week – a nationwide celebration of Careers education. Here at Southmoor, every week is a Careers Week! However, we do have some special activities taking place during the week to join the nation in celebrating Careers. On Monday, we have a...
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Come to see the Wizard!

Get ready to be transported to the merry old land of Oz! This week sees the debut of our latest school musical which our enthusiastic student cast have been hard at work on since the start of the school year. Pupils from the cast and crew have been frantically treading the boards...
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Make Your Mark Ballot

In form activities last week students had the opportunity to take part in a ballot as part of the annual ‘Make Your Mark‘ campaign organised by the UK Youth Parliament. In the ballot, students had the opportunity to vote for an issue that they felt is important to...
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