Mar 02
This week is the vote across the city for new members to join the Sunderland Youth Parliament. We are delighted that Faye Drinkald in Year 12 has applied and students have been casting their votes in school to support her. If elected, Faye will become part of the local advisory network of young people aged …
Mar 02
Durham University student Anha Jhuremalani delivered a ‘hands on’ session to our Year 12 students called the ‘rubber hand illusion’. Students got to carry out the experiment themselves which links into neuroplasticity and sensation synchrony. Students found that when they touched the real hand and the rubber hand synchronously, they felt as if the rubber …
Mar 02
Sixth Formers taking part in the Tyne & Wear Citizens Project recently shared their work gathering testimonies from their community with leaders from across Tyne and Wear. The project aims to build a broad alliance of civil society institutions for social justice and the common good. Students proved to be excellent representatives helping the wider …
Feb 19
OxNet Seminar 2 saw students exploring Physics with Brian Tanner, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University. He introduced them to the notion of collaborative reading by demonstrating an image-formation experiment. This involved students carefully observing a coin’s supposed change of position as water was poured into a vessel, demonstrating refraction at water-air interface. The …
Feb 19
Sixth Form pupils Ella Gallon, Megan Kelly and Jess Morrison attended the prestigious ‘Lit and Phil’ in Newcastle for a classics lecture entitled: ‘Violence & Vengeance: The Untold Story of Odysseus’ Return in Popular Culture’, by Dr. Sarah Miles from the University of Durham’s Classics and Ancient History Department. The experience enabled pupils to see …
Feb 19
We continue to work with David Lloyd Gym in Sunderland to provide fitness opportunities for our Sixth Form students, as part of this our students take time out of their studies every Wednesday to make use of the gym’s fantastic facilities for free.
