Science Teacher, Mrs Lumley-Imerson has launched a Virtual Science News Room in Google Classroom for students to develop their knowledge and skills by keeping up with all the latest industry news.

With international trips back on the agenda for UK schools, our PE department is pleased to announce that they are busy planning a return visit to Amsterdam for 2023.

A group of students in Year 8 have been taking part in The Bishop Big Dig, an exciting year-long project run by a team of archaeologists from Durham University and local volunteers from The Auckland Project.

Year 7 student, Alex A has won a competition to name the town’s new tapas restaurant located in the Spanish Art Gallery. The restaurant will be called El Castillo .

Year 10 students in GCSE Art have been studying different cultures and producing artwork inspired by their learning.

Our innovative Geography teachers work hard to find new ways to deliver GCSE curriculum content to students in all year groups and last term two activities really stood out.

This term we celebrated the achievements and effort of students in all year groups at our annual Prize Evening event. After two years of virtual celebrations due to covid restrictions, it was excellent to be able to welcome families into our Academy in person once again.

It has been proven that using a variety of techniques for study and revision is best for retention of key information. For this reason we have worked hard to develop a host of retention strategies, and organised specific drop-down days which allow students to try them.

Our teachers have many talents outside of their subject specialism and Maths Teacher, Mrs Rajesh is a very talented cook.

Last term, Ofsted inspectors visited King James for a two-day inspection and we have now received the official report. We are happy to confirm that we have retained the Good status awarded to us in our previous inspection in 2017.