The best schools and teachers across the country have been shortlisted in this year’s Tes Schools Awards. The Awards, which have been dubbed the ‘Oscars of education’, is a prestigious awards programme which celebrates the best of education across the UK. It has now been revealed that King James I Academy has been shortlisted in the category of Staff Wellbeing School of the year.

This academic year, we opened a lunchtime Reward Store where students in Key Stage 4 could spend their hard earned Class Charts points on rewards of their choice. The initiative has proved to be even more popular than expected.

Students are making excellent use of our newly-installed basketball hoop before school, at breaks and at lunchtime.

The Sixth Form Football Team at King James is celebrating an outstanding win against the previously unbeaten League Champions, Redcar and Cleveland College, to win the North East College's League.

A group of students in Years 8 and 9 have enjoyed a day of outdoor activities at Hamsterley Forest with Mr Blackburn and Mr Wheatley.

Three of our Year 10 students, and one of our Sixth Formers and her friends, have climbed Roseberry Topping in North Yorkshire to raise funds for Butterwick Hospice Care.

It's been another excellent term for PROUD work in all year groups and in all subjects.

Our Health & Safety Officer, and in-house First Aid Instructor, Jonathan Page has launched an exciting new Outreach opportunity for primary pupils called Mini Medics.

During the last week of term, we celebrated the achievements of our most dedicated Key Stage 3 students in three Hot Chocolate Rewards events with an Easter theme.

Year 12 students in Media Studies have been setting up creative photoshoots to gain images for their current magazine unit.