Category: Upper School – King Alfred School
Drawing between the lines – Y9
In Art, Year 9 students have been doing a project on ‘Blackout poetry’. They’ve taken pre-existing pages from books and isolated words and phrases from the page to make a…
Upper School Virtual Open Morning
Despite the school buildings being closed – our Open Morning for the Upper School went ahead virtually. This is a recording of the webinar which featured Head, Robert, Sixth Former,…
Year 7 students are
on a Crusade
Students in 7A have been studying the Crusades from their KASConnected classrooms at home. They discussed why some people would choose to go on a Crusade and the students designed…
Crafting Creative Costumes
Our Y12 Theatre Studies students have been busy re-imaging and creating their own costume designs for Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.
Monumental designs
make History
Y8 students have been looking at the slave trade in their History lessons and designing monuments to remember those who suffered. They were challenged to use materials from around their…
Personal Space (with Y7 scientists)
In the Science Department, Laura designed an amazing project for our Year 7s to complete. They had to choose one starter, one main and one dessert from their ‘Nandos Space…
Game on for Year 9 Biologists
In Year 9 the students were given a two week project around Ecology and the resulting games they created are brain-boosting-boredom-busters.
Positive posters for the NHS
Posters by our Y11 students have been sent to The Royal Free Hospital to help decorate a corridor and give a boost to frontline healthcare workers.
Moving pictures
Year 11 photography students were working towards exam projects when GCSEs were cancelled due to Covid-19. See two of their beautiful films here.
Last exhibition before lockdown
In mid March – before the school buildings closed, our Sixth Form Critical and Contextual Studies students curated an exhibition in response to the artist Anselm Kiefer. Kiefer creates dystopian,…
