News

• Saturday 23 November 2024 Christmas Tree Festival 2024 The Academy at St James have outdone themselves this year, with a truly unique and colourful Christmas tree at St James Church, Thornton.
• Tuesday 16 July 2024 Whole school trip to the seaside... After months of planning and apprehension, tide watching and facility checking...
• Tuesday 9 July 2024 World of Work Day - 2024 Thank you to all our World of Work day visitors who have taken the time to come into school and tell us about some of the fascinating jobs in our local area. We've learnt about the different skills we need to be successful, why we need to work well as a team and why caring for our community is so important.
• Monday 1 July 2024 Bag2School 2024 Working hard to generate new ideas to re-cycle our lives, the eco-council have collaborated with Bag2School.
• Friday 28 June 2024 Youth Fest 2024 - Brass Band England Our brass band had the opportunity today to represent the whole of BDAT at Youth Fest. We travelled to Barnsley Civic Hall and had a blast, making us all very proud.
• Wednesday 26 June 2024 Sports Day - 2024 Wednesday 26th June was the most active day of our school calendar led by Mr. Wainman our PE lead.
• Tuesday 25 June 2024 Wellbeing Conference 2024 Our Well Being Ambassadors participated in a district wide conference at Immanual College, Bradford. They shared ideas, made new links and produced positive praise posters to be displayed within BDAT schools. We are extremely proud of them and the way they represented their school -The Academy at St James.
• Thursday 20 June 2024 Clean Air Event 2024
• Thursday 13 June 2024 Fathers Day Forest School 2024 Thank you to everyone who attended our Fathers Day Forest School morning. Dads, grandads, uncles, brothers and some mummies had the best time, den building, kite flying, s'more making, bug hunting and dream catcher making!
• Friday 17 May 2024 Safer Streets
• Thursday 18 April 2024 RHS Level 4 Gardening Award We are delighted to announce that we been awarded the Level 4 RHS School Gardening Award!We received a Level 4 certificate to display, some seeds and also a £100 garden gift voucher.The RHS Campaign for school gardening inspires and supports schools to provide children with gardening opportunities to enhance their skills and boost their development. This is a valuable part of our Wellbeing curriculum.A huge ASJ thank you to Mrs Barker who has led on each of our gardening awards.
• Monday 18 March 2024 Reception class visit Windsor Court Reception have had another wonderful visit to Windsor Court today for some Easter fun! We love spending time with their residents and contributing to our local community. Thank you so much for setting up a fabulous egg hunt and for the children’s Easter bags! We can’t wait to see you all again soon
• Tuesday 27 February 2024 Welcome to our new website
• Thursday 1 February 2024 Governors report Spring 2023-24
• Wednesday 31 January 2024 History Award - Silver 2024 We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Silver Quality Mark from the Historical Association.
• Thursday 18 May 2023 Venturists - The Business of Science Innovation Award On Thursday 18th May 2023 our Venturists went to Leeds for a national science awards presentation.
• Thursday 26 May 2022 Ascension Day
• Thursday 31 March 2022 Active Bradford Champions - 2022 During a ceremony which boasted 19 awards celebrating all things physical within activity and sport, our school - The Academy at St James were crowned the winners of the Bradford District Active School Award.
• Thursday 5 March 2020 Yorkshire PE & Sport Premium Awards 2020 - Winners Success for The Academy at St James.