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All aboard for the YR6 Crews project
This year the YR6 classes have set themselves some goals for the year and to get there, they’re working in teams, called Crews. Teachers Adele and Sophie explained the idea…
Ada Lovelace Week: Workshops
Ada Lovelace was born in 1852 and, sadly, only lived to the age of 36. Despite living a short life at a time when women weren’t expected to be much…
Body positive: Lab visit for A-level students
A recent A-level Biology trip saw the students visiting the labs at Kings College and meeting leading Cancer researcher Dr Julie Wang. “To find out more about our bodies and…
Brilliant buskers raise £570 for local children's hospice
Back in October the Lower School were invited to take part in a fundraising concert for Noah’s Ark Hospice. Timings didn’t work out but the children were determined to get…
Story Studio helps children to tell tales
Story Studio helps children to tell tales In YR2 the children have been working on storytelling using trays of natural objects. Children love to tell stories and this teaching method…
Designing the future in Eindhoven
In the October Half Term a group of Yr12 and 13 students headed off to Eindhoven to immerse themselves in Dutch Design Week. Design Technology, Art and Photography students all…
Hispanic Theatre Festival success for students
On Tuesday 9th October five sixth form students performed a ten-minute extract from the Mexican play ‘Se Vende una mula’ by Alberto Rojas Ponce in Spanish at the 6th Hispanic…
Performance poet Adisa visits KAS
We were delighted to welcome Adisa, the Verbaliser, for a high energy interactive performance to students of Year 7, 8 and 9 during this year’s National Poetry Day. His artful…
Civil Rights activist inspires 6th form students
Mark Levy visited KAS in order to complement the A Level History course on Race Relations and Civil Rights. As an activist in the 1964 Freedom Summer, he shared the…
King Alfred School Celebrates outstanding GCSE Results
King Alfred School Year 11 students celebrated with outstanding GCSE results in 2018. Pupils had much to smile about with a huge 57% of all entries resulting in A* to…
