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.

A group of Year 10 students have attended the annual Christmas Maths lecture at Teesside University.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

Here at King James I Academy, we are celebrating our first term back with an award for 100% attendance success for the month of September.