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It's not very often that students have permission from Mr Grieveson to attack members of staff or to engage in a water fight but at the end of half term they were positively encouraged to both.

At only 15, Year 10 student, Paige Marshall, is showing all the traits of TV maths queen Carol Vorderman. After sitting her GCSE Maths almost two years early, Paige has already achieved an A*

Students from both King James and Staindrop School took part in the friendly competition, which was the first of its kind in the Bishop Auckland area.

While Olympic athletes are dreaming of winning just one gold medal in London, our students have returned from a regional athletics event with an array of them!

Three of our Sixth Form students transformed themselves into Punk Princesses recently to help raise funds for a new chemotherapy unit at Bishop Auckland Hospital.

We take bullying very seriously here at King James and so we were delighted with the results of this year's confidential student survey, which told us that incidents of bullying in our school are rare.

Staff at King James 1st Academy showed their true class as they convincingly beat a Sixth formers side consisting of current and past pupils, 14-0.

The Mayor of Bishop Auckland, Councillor John Lethbridge, has recently visited King James to plant a tree as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Students in Years 8, 9 and 10 recently enjoyed a "Sportsability' taster session courtesy of Durham County Leisure's Sportsability team, who provide fun activities for adults and young people with a disability.