Hill View Junior Academy
Academy converter primary school in Sunderland (Sunderland).
Location
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iWritten by WhatSchool from official school data (Get Information about Schools, DfE and Ofsted).Hill View Junior Academy is a primary school located in Sunderland. The school caters for boys and girls aged 7 to 11 and currently has 452 pupils on roll, with a capacity of 480. It is part of the VISION LEARNING TRUST LIMITED. The school is led by Mrs Hayley Sutton.
Enrichment
14 activitiesiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Athletics
- Basketball
- Choir
- Computing
- Dance
- Football
- Gardening
- Karate
- Lego
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Netball
- Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC)
- Numbots
Awards
1 awardiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Healthy SchoolsHealth and wellbeing
Key facts
- URN
- 144224
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 2017
Governing body (10 current, 1 former)
iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.1 governor is linked to a profile (all confirmed).
Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Doreen Lish | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2029 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miss Georgia Lambert | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Mrs Elizabeth Newby | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mrs Jaimee Emmerson | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mr Steven Little Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2029 |
| Mr Ryan James Dillon | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mrs Laura Jackson | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mr Lee Garrett | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mrs Doreen Lish | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2021 · until 2029 |
| Mrs Hayley Sutton | Local Governor | Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principal | since 2020 |
| Miss Kathrine Earnshaw Former | Local Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2021 · term ended 2025 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record