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Rugby in the Spotlight

The Year 9 rugby team played out another draw against St Aidans under the floodlights at Southmoor in the All Schools Tournament. Despite there being nothing to separate the two teams for the second game in a row the quality of the rugby on display was far greater than in the...
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Careers Fair 2024

On Thursday was our annual Careers Fair which took place, after two years at Sunderland University, back on site again in the Main Hall and Old Gym here in school. This year over 70 organisations came into school to engage with over 1000 students in Years 9 to 13 throughout the...
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Subverting the Narrative with Southmoor Scholars

We had a fantastic first lecture for Scholars 2024 this week from Elaine Effard from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.  Elaine shared her story of growing up in Horsley Hill in South Shields, and feeling like an ‘average‘ student in Year 10 when she was selected for a...
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Sweet Success

Last week, students who are raising money to fund their place on our Camps International trip to Kenya next year opened a school tuck shop on the main yard at break-time on Wednesday. This turned out to be an enormous success with students managing to raise an impressive £91.07...
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Students Voyage to Iceland

Some of our students recently got to go on a trip of a lifetime in the frigid north. Our school trip to Iceland was a huge success! Anya Clayton (Year 10 ) gives us a firsthand account of this amazing opportunity for our students.  ‘In Iceland, we had some amazing experiences!...
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Sixth Form Open Evening 2024

We saw a fantastic turnout for our latest Sixth Form Open Evening at Southmoor, this week, with students and their parents from schools from across the area joining us to find out more about the special level of support we give our students. This was a chance for potential sixth...
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Scouting for Kenya

Over the half term holiday, Mrs Zakaidze went out to Kenya for the Camps International teacher’s inspection visit in preparation for the student expedition next summer. It was a very busy week, during which she experienced some of the activities and projects that students...
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Remembrance at Southmoor

Last week’s Aspire Theme of the Week is ‘Remembrance’. During our special Remembrance assemblies throughout the week, students were welcomed into the assembly by members of our school orchestra accompanied by images to mark the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. Mrs Maw...
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Review of Marking (GCSE 2024)

Wishing our past Year 11 luck in your next steps.  If you have not heard from us about your Review of Marking then your grade will remain the same as issued on results day.
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Fun at the Fair

On the last day of half term we celebrated the end of term down in the Sixth Form with Year 11 who joined us for a special ‘Sixth Form Fair’. Pupils got the chance to try a variety of fun activities including a photo booth, exotic petting zoo, hook-a-duck, ring toss...
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