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Aspiration Graduation

Students from Fulwell Juniors, Hasting Hill Academy and Valley Road Academy attended an Aspirations Graduation at Collingwood College, Durham University, to celebrate the completion of the first year of Southmoor’s primary aspirations programme. The Principal of College led the...
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A Summer of Reading Begins

Mrs. Foster launched our ‘Summer of Reading’ initiative encouraging students to read over the Summer break. Research shows that reading for pleasure improves literacy understanding, academic attainment and can also result in increased empathy, improved relationships with others,...
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Insight into Fulwell

We were joined by Year 5 pupils from Fulwell Junior School to participate in our most recent ‘Insight Day’. This is the first time students from Fulwell have joined us, with pupils from the school expressing their enjoyment of learning about advanced subjects, as well as...
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Exploring the Battlefields

History students embarked upon our annual Battlefields Trip.  Pupils visited the D-Day sectors of World War Two, visiting Omaha Gold beaches, Pont Du Hoc and Colleville American Cemetery.  They also got to visit the Bayeux Tapestry and Mulberry Harbours which hold...
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Leeds College of Music

Drama and music students visited Leeds College of Music for a workshop day to experience what a conservatoire has to offer at undergraduate level. Students attended workshops such as recital preparation, composition, physical theatre and musical theatre as well as making links...
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Behind the Scenes with Beyond the Band Pit

Students got the chance to perform their own original musical compositions at the Sunderland Empire as part of the ‘Beyond the Band Pit Project’.  The project, run by The Empire in association with Sunderland Music Hub, involves our students working alongside local musician...
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Students on Stage at The Sage

Our School Orchestra Project representing Sunderland Music Hub, performed a live set in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead.  They performed arrangements of ‘Africa’ by Toto, ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ by Grieg and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen.  Well...
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Southmoor Sweeps the Young Achievers’ Awards

We recently attended the annual Sunderland Young Achievers’ Awards at the Stadium of Light. It was an amazing evening, made even more amazing by students from Southmoor who swept the board with significantly more awards than any other school.   Congratulations to all...
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Fantastic Physics

Congratulations to Alice Ward (Year 10) who received the Ogden Trust ‘Schools’ Physicist of the Year’ award.  The awards were presented by Steph Bartle, a PGCE student who is a former pupil of Framwellgate School Durham and Professor Nigel Glover FRS, Head of...
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Eyes Down for Teach Meet 2019

We saw the return of our annual ‘Southsands Teach Meet’. This year’s event had a Bongo’s Bingo inspired theme that saw colleagues from Southmoor Academy and Sandhill View Academy getting into the spirit, going bonkers for bingo. This all added a fun edge to a fantastic...
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