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Southmoor Scholars Unravel Political Dilemmas

Dr Elizabeth Khan, Associate Professor in Political Theory, Durham University spoke to our scholars about political dilemmas on Monday. Scholars learnt about a range of political approaches and theories from the concept of utilitarianism: maximizing happiness by the greatest...
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National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Last week, we celebrated National Apprenticeship Week in school – an opportunity for students and parents to learn about the world of Apprenticeships as a possible future pathway. As part of this, for the second year, we held our Apprenticeship Explorer Careers Fair on...
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VEX Robotics Challenge

Throughout the year, some of our students have been working to design, build and code a robot to take part in the VEX Robotics Competition. Last Saturday, our team competed at the competition held at Whickham School. We were up against nine other teams, many of which were older...
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SCAG Still Going Strong in School

Sunderland Community Action Group, with whom we work closely in school, were once again an approved provider of the Sunderland Council and Together for Children HAF programme over the recent Christmas period. The Youth and Community based project saw record numbers of young...
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Coping with Exam Stress

Last week we were delighted to offer an extended assembly for our Year 11 students with a guest speaker joining us. Gemma Leach, our dedicated Emotional Resilience Nurse, presented to our Yr 11 pupils on the theme of coping with exam-related stress. As Year 11 start to undertake...
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Talking Tax

As part of our Personal Development curriculum, Year 10 have been looking this term at ‘Online Security and Fraud’ as part of the theme ‘Living in the Wider World’. We have a strong commitment to ensuring that our students are prepared to manage finances in the future. On Tuesday...
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Archaeological Investigations with Southmoor Scholars

Historian John Roxborough from Durham University joined Southmoor Scholars last week to talk about Archaeological Human Remains, and its uses as a as historical source. John shared his passion for history and his roles within The Museum of Archaeology, Oriental Museum and Botanic...
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Creative Careers with Channel 4

We were delighted to be involved again with the Channel 4 ‘4Schools’ programme about Creative Careers. There will be several events taking place during the next few months. The first event was on Tuesday and Wednesday last week where Michael Longhi came into school to deliver...
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Post 16 Options

It is really important that all Year 11 students have a suitable destination for September 2024. It is expected that all students are in some form of education, training or employment (with education). Here is the link to a letter to Year 11 parents giving more information about...
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Police in School

Last Thursday, we welcomed PC Alan Postings, our local community police officer, to spend the day with us in school. Alan delivered various talks to our students in Years 7 to 10 about the important topics of online safety, knife crime, child sexual exploitation and drugs misuse....
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