Year 12 students aspiring to become medical doctors attended a series of workshops with Newcastle University covering all aspects of the application process. The sessions were tailored to the students’ individual needs and provided them with the skills needed to make a competitive UCAS application.

Researchers from Sunderland University held a focus group with Sixth Form students to help their study into how young people access the alcohol and drugs service in Sunderland known as the Youth Drug & Alcohol Project (YDAP).  Participants offered feedback, ideas and opinions from the age group the project will be targeting.

Students from Year 12 and 13 spent five days in Iceland over half term making lifelong memories including a humpback whale sighting and visiting the many waterfalls, fissures, glaciers as well as spectacular Geysirs.  They spent time in the secret lagoon (a natural geothermal hot spring) plus a night looking at the stars and Aurora Borealis in the designated dark …

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