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Online Engineering Apprenticeships Open Evening

On Tuesday 2nd February students attended an online open evening for apprenticeships in engineering, hosted by SETA – a leading training provider in engineering excellence. At this event students could meet employers, view Seta’s training facilities and gain insight into the ‘learn and earn’ opportunities that an apprenticeship offers. Engineering is one of the key sectors for …

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Southmoor Staff Stars

The latest staff stars in Sixth Form are Mrs Maven and Mr Middleton who run the mentoring programme to support students in achieving the very best that they can! In doing so they provide one-to-one support to individual students to provide them with the tools to process feedback positively, revise affectively, organise their work and discover aspirations that …

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Sixth Form Walk & Talk

As the second month of lockdown comes upon us, we are engaging with Walk & Talk February – an initiative to get us all out for a walk each day (even in the rain!) either with a family member or socially distanced with a friend or to call someone while out walking. Getting outside, exercising, …

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Speak for Schools Q&As Continue

We saw Dorothy Byrne, Editor for Channel 4, and Tom Toumazis MBE, a leading investor in tech start-ups step into the spotlight to discuss their experiences and pathways to achieving their goals. Tom Toumazis discussed in depth ‘the art of nudging’ and how to get notice in a noisy world, while Dorothy also shared some …

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UCAS Applications Are In!

Year 13 have now finished their UCAS applications.  There have been 111 applications to a wide variety of university courses including study for Oxford and Cambridge and a wide range of subjects such as Medical School, Music Production, Social Work, Architecture as well as Urban Planning at Newcastle University, Accounting at Durham, Nursing, Law, History …

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Maths Masterclass

Well done to those Year 12 and 13 students who have been resitting their GCSE Maths Exams recently. A Massive 75% of them have successfully passed their resit, with 83.3% of those gaining a grade 4 or 5! 75% also gained a grade 4 or 5 for the first time as well as improving their …

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