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January 2019

Sixth Form Open Evening Success

28 Jan 2019
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Year 11 students from across the city attended our final Sixth Form Open Evening of this academic year for a chance to think about where they want to be in three years’ time and to chat with representatives from universities and higher apprenticeships. It was fantastic to see so...
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NCS Say Yes

28 Jan 2019
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Southmoor has received the Silver Award from the National Citizenship Service for recruiting over 50 Year 11 students to take part in the Summer 2018 campaign! As well as delivering information for this summer to our current Year 11 students, representatives Darren and Chloe...
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University Challenge

28 Jan 2019
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Year 11 students from Southmoor and Sandhill View visited Newcastle University to experience higher education and learn more about the transition from GCSE to A-level study. They tested their knowledge with an interactive university challenge quiz, learned new techniques to...
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Getting Revision Ready

28 Jan 2019
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  Year 11 took part in a revision workshop with Sunderland University where they learned about a variety of revision techniques including mnemonics, using post-it notes around the house and making mind-maps. They completed a quiz on their own personal learning style so they...
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ARTiculation Accolade

28 Jan 2019
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Articulation is a National Art Speaking Competition where approximately 4,000 young people a year take part in 10 regions in England, an equal balance of state maintained and independent schools take part throughout the competition.   Margot Stead of Year 12...
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Looking Onwards to Oxford

21 Jan 2019
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As part of their road trip around the North East, Oxford University visited high achieving Year 9 and 10 students with a focus around what makes Oxford different.  This included it’s collegiate system (where some colleges compete in a yearly turtle race) and one-to-one...
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Electrifying Competition in the Farday Challenge

21 Jan 2019
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Year 8 students took part in The Faraday Challenge where teams from 161 schools pitted against each other in an engineering-based competition to see who can design, create and promote the best solution to a given challenge.  All challenges are genuine, real-life engineering...
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Booked In

21 Jan 2019
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Scholars visited Palace Green Library at Durham to explore the question ‘What is a book?’.  They handled books from the archives (including a first edition of Emma by Jane Austen) then recreated a Scriptorium and attempted calligraphy with real goose quills to create...
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Stage Advice

21 Jan 2019
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A group of Year 9, 10 & 12 students worked with an actor and director exploring Donmar Warehouse’s critically acclaimed all female production of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’.  They explored the script and performed sections of the...
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Southmoor Scholars Get Creative

21 Jan 2019
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We welcomed Jarrow School to our Scholars lecture series. The session was delivered by Teesside University and focused on comic book illustration which is now seen as a serious form of artwork that can be studied at university. Students created cartoon characters of themselves...
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