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Pizza Perfection

Well done to Mr. Bunn and Miss. Bainbrage’s Year 7 classes won the pizza party competition that was held over our recent school trip to Bamburgh just before Half Term. All students showed excellent behaviour, making this a difficult competition to judge but this group came...
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Bronze Attendance Bonanza

A huge well done to all of the students who received their Bronze Attendance badges to mark their consistently high attendance throughout the year so far. We had 780 students across the school collecting their bronze badges this week, a total we hope to increase over th...
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Careers Café Reopens

Last week marked the return of our weekly Careers Cafés, a popular event from last year. Every Wednesday, we are delighted to welcome organisations into school to speak to students in Years 9 to 13 during lunchtime (at 1pm) in Southmoor House. The event is very informal – no set...
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Shakespeare Schools Festival

Last week, in preparation for our performance in of Twelfth Night, a professional director visited Southmoor to work with cast members.  Rowena led students through character development activities, watched our work in progress and gave advice for improvements. She was amazed by...
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BAE Systems RAF & Royal Navy Roadshow

On Tuesday morning, we were delighted to welcome the BAE Systems, RAF and Royal Navy STEM Roadshow into school to deliver worshops to Years 7 and 8 students. The theme of the workshops this year was ‘From the depths of the oceans to outer space’. During the session,...
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Year 7 Discover Bamburgh

For the second year in a row, we took every single Year 7 student on a day trip to Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland on Friday. Our students enjoyed their trip north to the picturesque setting, exploring the 10th century building and its rich history, which is now fully open to...
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National Poetry Day 2023

Last week we celebrated National Poetry Day! On Thursday 6th October, the English department donned a quote from their favourite poem from the GCSE Power and Conflict cluster and treated KS3 to English lessons surrounding this year’s theme: Refuge. Pupils were then invited...
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Football Season Rolls On

Our football teams continue with the start to the season with games at Home this week for Year 7 & 8. Our Year 8 continued their dominance in the Sunderland School’s League, soundly defeating Seaham Academy 13-0 with honourable mentions to George Sly and Thomas Maughan who...
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Off to See the Wizard

This year our students are buzzing with excitement to take part in our always popular school musical productions. This year’s production is the classic ‘Wizard of Oz’. We last staged this show over five years ago in 2017 and, as our shows have grown in popularity with students...
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Amazing LAMDA Success

Congratulations to all our LAMDA students on their success in LAMDA exams. Students took exams in both Performance and Public Speaking. We are proud of all students who put in hard work and commitment to achieve fantastic results. Well done to all who participated. LAMDA...
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