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A Taste of Sixth Form

On Friday afternoon, students in Year 11 who would like to continue studying in the Sixth Form at Southmoor Academy next year, had the opportunity to take part in a range of different taster lessons in each of the subjects that will be available next year. These taster lessons...
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Christmas Card Competition Winners

Well done to: Elora Lowe (Year 8), who won our art competition to create this year’s official Academy Christmas card. She impressed our judges with a delightful rendition of a Southmoor student putting the finishing touches to a Christmas tree. Well done, the winning card will...
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Creative Careers with Channel 4

On Monday and Tuesday last week, we were delighted to welcome back into school, Michael Longhi from Channel 4, to deliver workshops with all of our Year 7 students about Creative Careers. Michael started with an introductory assembly on Monday morning where he talked about the...
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In the Lab at Thomas Swan

Some Year 8 students had the fantastic opportunity to take part in a STEM trip to Thomas Swan, a chemical manufacturing company based in Consett. Whilst at Thomas Swan students took part in various activities such as laboratory experiments, which investigated the viscosity of...
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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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