Each year we celebrate the successes of our Sixth Form students as they achieve excellent results and progress onto university, apprenticeship programmes or into the workforce. Despite the many challenges of 2020-21, this year is no exception.

Three of our Sixth Form Media students have been collaborating on a range of projects featuring Year 13 student, Sam H transformed into a modern interpretation of iconic comic book villain, The Joker!

Sixth Form teachers have arranged a timetable of Easter holiday sessions to help students in Years 12 and 13 revise for forthcoming exams, catch up on coursework and gather quality evidence which will be used for teacher assessed grades.

Sixth Form students have received their third lateral flow test today in school and will now move onto home testing kits, which will be provided by us. Other year groups will follow shortly.

Later this month The Northern Echo will be publishing an ‘Education Matters’ supplement and part of this will include a special photographic feature of pupils and teachers home schooling.

Sixth Form student, Victoria M and her younger brother have created this fantastic board game to learn about the industrial revolution.

Students and staff at King James I Academy raised £70 for the North East charity, ‘If U Care Share’, which offers a full range of services to help prevent suicide and support families who have been affected by suicide.

As part of the school’s annual Christmas fundraising programme, students and staff at King James I Academy have been collecting food donations to support the North East based charity, Feeding Families. The charity provides food hampers to families in need across the region.

As part of their coursework, Year 13 Media Production students have been creating a series of short documentary films on a variety of topics to appeal to young people.

Students have been working hard on exam pieces in our Drama & Performing Arts Department throughout the last term.