During the Photography visit to Barcelona three students were lucky enough to attend the Champions League football match between Barcelona and PSV Eindhoven at Camp Nou. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch a game at Barcelona's home stadium, which is the third biggest football stadium in the world.

Jamie Margolin, a freelance film producer and cinematographer from Los Angeles has recently visited King James. He participated in a Q&A session with Sixth Form Media students as part of their Level 3 BTEC Creative Media course.

King James has raised a grand total of £394.33 for Macmillan Cancer Support at our annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning fundraising event.

A very warm welcome to one and all!

Inside: Exam Results, Transition Summer School, New Nurture Centre, STEM Initiatives, Sports Day, Academy Election, Emmerdale Studio Tour, Dance Show, Sixth Form News and much more

Well done to our fantastic GCSE students who managed to achieve another excellent set of results this year.

Well done to our Sixth Form students for achieving another fantastic set of results in Summer 2018.

Over 70 of our new starters joined us at our Transition Summer School this year, spending two days in school before heading off for a free, three-day adventure holiday to Weardale Adventure Centre in Ireshopeburn.

Year 11s have returned from a three-week trip of a lifetime to America. The group attended a week-long summer camp in Iowa where they took part in many outdoor activities from canoeing to camping and slept in log cabins with eight American young people.

A team of six girls have won the EDT (Engineering Development Trust) "My Healthy School' competition, which was held at Teesside University last term.

Our annual Academy Sports Day took place on the last day of term and our young athletes competed with great determination and sportsmanship in a number of track events from 100m sprints to relay races.