Category: Upper School – King Alfred School
Two Sides to Every Poem – Blake-Inspired Verse by Y9
English students in Year 9 have been studying Wiliam Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’. Teacher Zoe explains: “These poems are influenced by Blake’s ‘The Lamb’ from ‘Songs of…
Well Versed In History – Y8 WW1 Poems
Students in Y8 have been looking at the poetry which came out of WW1 and writing their own verses, inspired by the war poets. Here are three of their moving…
Meet the teachers – The MFL Department
In order to really get to know our wonderful Modern Languages Department they asked their own students to interview them in their respective languages. Every day really is a…
Remembering the Holocaust
On 27 January our Upper School students watched this beautiful online Callover created by our Drama and Music Departments featuring moving readings and a piano recital. As a community we…
Cooking Historical Christmas Cakes
Before the Winter break Y10 students taking part in cooking as their Choice activity were cooking up a festive storm. In fact they were continuing a KAS tradition — they…
A level Photography Masterclasses
The photography department had the delight of welcoming Glen Erler to the school last month and had a chance to hear him speak about his work during a Q&A with Head…
Upper School Show – Coming Soon!
Nothing stops our Drama and Music Departments putting on a show. If a pandemic means no mass gatherings, so be it. Instead they’ve created a cavalcade of Hollywood classic clips…
Pizza and Physics Evening for Y11
On Friday 20th November the Science Department hosted a Physics Lecture and Pizza evening for the Year 11 triple scientists. Oxford University are broadcasting their public lectures virtually this year…
Posters with in-tense-ity!
Year 9 Spanish were tasked with a flipped learning homework to come up with a creative poster that explains the how the ‘Preterite tense’ in Spanish is formed. The pupils…
Let The Music Play
The KAS Music Department have been very busy this term with two amazing concerts. First up was Axemonsters which was live streamed on our YouTube Channel as we weren’t able…
