December 2019
30 students in Year 7, who were all chosen for their outstanding effort and behaviour in lessons, have recently enjoyed a History rewards trip to Auckland Castle.
December 2019
A group of students in Years 8 and 9 have recently visited the School of Education at the University of Durham to take part in a Mathematical Magic Event along with students from a number of other schools in County Durham.
December 2019
A group of Year 10 students have attended the annual Christmas Maths lecture at Teesside University.
December 2019
A group of 25 Year 12 students have recently travelled to York where they visited York St John’s University as part of our Aim Higher programme.
December 2019
Two of our History teachers have been making quite an impression on students in Key Stage 3 with a range of exciting role-play lessons.
November 2019
Last month we launched our 1,000 Can Challenge with the intention of collecting 1,000 cans of food to donate to our local food bank and we are delighted to announce that we exceeded it with a total of 1,048 cans!
November 2019
On November 11th we held our annual Remembrance Service in school to pay tribute to the many thousands of people who have lost their lives in war.
November 2019
This year, despite taking delivery of our usual stock of Remembrance Day poppies, we are proud to say that we sold the entire supply in under an hour thanks to our amazing students who flocked to buy them!
November 2019
Year10 students have recently taken part in our annual Safety Carousel event, which was attended by representatives from Durham County Council and the Police Force.
October 2019
King James I Academy recently brought World War II history to life in an intergenerational event involving senior citizens from the local community, primary school pupils from Crook Primary and students in Years 8-13 from the Academy.