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Students Diagnose the Health Profession

Year 8 students interested in healthcare careers went to the University of Sunderland to meet with lots of different NHS staff. They learned about everything from occupational therapy to radiology. Everyone had a very interesting day and students represented our school excellently.
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Year 9 Discover York

To end this half term, with Year’s 7 and 8 both having enjoyed year group trips to Bambrough and Beamish respectively, it was Year 9’s turn to have fun out and about learning more about our region’s heritage in York. The entire year group had a fantastic time visiting such...
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Scholars Explore Newcastle University

The Southmoor Scholars visited Newcastle University last week. We traveled by the metro, and the students amazed to find out how easy the travel was – the university is right on the doorstep of Haymarket! We took part in a range of activities, including a budgeting game, a...
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STEM Projects with ESH

We were delighted to host representatives from Esh Group this week in school to deliver STEM workshops to some of our Year 10 Maths and Science classes. The workshops focused on Construction in the Curriculum and gave students the opportunity to see how Maths and Science can...
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Smart About Sugar

As part of our ASPIRE programme, our school nursing team visited today to deliver sessions to Year 7 pupils on adopting a healthy lifestyle. The students considered what makes a healthy, balanced diet, as well as the importance of exercise and sleep. The team were impressed by...
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Green Guardians at Durham Wildlife Trust

As part of our ongoing enrichment project with Durham Wildlife Trust, a group of our Green Guardians were invited to visit the nature reserve at Rainton Meadows. During the visit students had the opportunity to take part in some bird watching and pond dipping, and to learn more...
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Southmoor’s Successful Sponsorship

Over the course of January, Years 7 and 8 were encouraged to participate in Read for Good’s charity Readathon whereby pupils set themselves a target to read as many books as possible and gain sponsorship in a bid to raise money for local hospitals. Every penny raised will...
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Apprenticeship Explorer Careers Fair

On Wednesday 12 February, as part of National Apprenticeship Week, we once again hosted our annual Apprenticeship Explorer Careers Fair. This took place in the Sixth Form Cafe, and we welcomed over 15 different organisations into school to speak to parents and students about the...
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Poetry Live!

Last week we took a group of Year 11 who travelled to Harrogate Convention centre where we were amongst 1400 pupils from other schools to listen to poets discuss their work and give insight and tips into the poetry section of the GCSE literature exam. Our pupils listened to talks...
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Children’s Mental Health Week

Last week’s Aspire Theme of the Week is ‘Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week‘. During assemblies, Mrs Mellefont welcomed a representative from Kooth into school to speak to students about the online platform that all students have access to if they...
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