April 2021 archive

MyTutor Advanced Sessions

Year 12 students have begun one-to-one, online tutoring sessions online with the platform MyTutor. In this program students have been paired with university student tutors in specific subject areas to provide additional teaching and exam practice for Year 12s that have shown outstanding effort this year. These sessions have been a roaring success so far …

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Fantastic Feedback

We are delighted to share with you the following feedback we received  from a Sixth Form parent about the quality and dedication of our fantastic sixth form staff: ‘I would just like to say how supportive we have found the teaching and non-teaching staff in sixth form.   My son joined Southmoor sixth form later than other students due …

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Curtain Call for Year 13 Drama

Year 13 A level Drama students have completed their final performance.  They chose to consider issues of power in relationships and identified issues such a domestic violence, coercion and abuse.  They explored how these issues are not just connected to one age group, gender or ethnicity but how these hidden issues can be experienced by all people.  The thoughtful nature of their work was …

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Experiencing Careers

Congratulations to James Mapstone in Year 13 who has successfully secured himself a highly sought after work experience placement with The Biorenewables Development Centre, working as part of their program, ‘Imagining a World Without Waste – Careers That Can Save the Planet!’.  The company are partnered with The University of York and are a leading company in exciting advances in the conversion of …

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Launching the EduKit App

Students have been downloading and familiarising themselves with the EduKit mobile app to support their mental wellbeing and access any support they may need, both in or outside of school.  Students can track their feelings daily, access professional and ‘in-house’ resources to improve their mental health, create their own resources to share with one another …

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Well done to our Open Evening Winners! 

Well done to our Online Open Evening competition winners: Thea May Robertson Sloanes, Thomas Wilkinson and Abigail Howat. These students will receive an Amazon gift voucher as their prize for taking part in our online survey. Thanks for the feedback and we hope you enjoyed our virtual open evening. We look forward to seeing these students along with all this year’s applicants in …

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