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Exploring Employability with Sun Belt Rentals & Wates

On Tuesday morning, as a follow up to the recent visit to the Wates/AESC Gigafactory construction project in Washington, we were delighted to welcome into school Jimmy from Sunbelt Rentals and Ashleigh, David and Jeff from Wates Group to deliver the second part of the exciting Sunbelt Rentals Beacons Schools programme with our Year 12 …

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Year 12 Take Part in a Radicalisation Workshop

We were delighted to welcome Peter Hyman, a former policy adviser to both Tony Blair and more recently Sir Keir Starmer, to Southmoor on Wednesday. He held a workshop on online radicalisation, and gathered views from our sixth form students that will feature in the research paper he is writing.

Charged Up at Sunbelt Rentals

We are very proud to be the official school in the Northeast that is part of the Sunbelt Rentals Beacon Schools Project. On Tuesday, our Year 12 Engineering students took part in the first part of this project with a visit to the AESC Gigafactory being built by Wates in Washington. During the visit, our …

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Sports Leaders Get Geared Up

Team Southmoor Student Volunteer programme is up and running and students across the school are already enjoying the opportunities that having a dedicated team of sixth formers is providing. Taking on Coaching, Managing, Journalism and Photography roles the volunteers are gaining valuable, real world industry experience that will not only benefit the students that they …

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Mapping Regeneration

Our Year 12 Geographers visited East Boldon and Hendon as part of their A Level topic on regeneration – comparing contrasting local places. After completing extensive secondary research, they collected primary data which will allow them to compare the character of these contrasting places.

Sixth Form Sports Leaders

We have put together a group of 6th formers who are Team Southmoor Student Leaders. Some of these are volunteering as photographers and journalists to cover our lower school sporting events whilst others will be managing their younger peers. This week our sixth formers who were successfully appointed to be part of Team Southmoors Student …

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