Our Year 13 Oxbridge applicants took part in a small group workshop to find out more about the admissions process, including admissions tests and interviews. They then broke off into subject groups and interviewed each other with example questions.

Two Sunderland Councillors were invited into school to discuss the role of local government to our Year 12 Law students. The Councillors were both former Southmoor students! Martyn Herron and Lyall Reed talked to the students about topics ranging from dealing with antisocial behaviour in the area, to how Sunderland Council spends its £100m budget. It was …

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Fiona Larkin from Sunderland University visited the Art department to outline to our current Year 13 Art and Photography students the expectations for applying to University and how to create a portfolio to submit. The students received one-to-one advice from Fiona and are looking forward to attending workshops at Sunderland University on Wednesday 28th September.