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Jun 25
Last week, students in Year 12, who have been working toward their Silver Duke Edinburgh Awards throughout the year, have undertaken their final expedition. Navigating and walking through the lake district, the teams have had to make use of maps and compasses to travel roughly 10 Miles a day for three days, by foot. All …
Jun 25
Year 12 spent the day at the University of Sunderland to build and develop their academic skills and have a taster of learning at University level. We were welcomed into the newly updated Murrey Health building where students experienced a lecture on HE Skills, taking a deep dive into critical thinking, testing out the Harvard …
Jun 12
In preparation for the delivery of Year 13 content, our Year 12 Psychologists attended an exciting and thought-provoking webinar, live and direct from the Freud Museum in London! Curator Stefan Marianski delivered a session covering the famous Sigmund Freud and his theoretical approach to human behaviour. Students attentively listened to Freud’s work from the unconscious …
May 13
Our Year 11 Transition Programme is just around the corner. Students will be able to access a range of preparatory work on building knowledge and understanding about the wider world, skills they will need in order to study at A level and how to move on to some of the more detailed work set by our individual …
May 07
Did you know that we have our own vegetable plot? Back on the Map have kindly rented our school a raised bed in Barley Mow park as part of their community efforts, along with Sunderland Council, to help improve biodiversity and sustainability in the Hendon area. On Thursday, some of our Year 12s visited the …
May 07
Northumbria University joined us on Wednesday to deliver workshops in Critical thinking and Academic Writing Skills with our Year 13 students to build their skills and confidence in preparation for University. Students looked into the reliability of academic sources, learnt the importance of Peer review and the intricacies of referencing your reading. Thank you to …
