Category: Upper School – King Alfred School
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,…
Remote learning for Upper School students
Though our school buildings are closed, our students are busy studying from home. We know this new way of working can be challenging. Here are some tips for remote learning and reminders of how we will be delivering lessons to different year groups across the Upper School.
Bringing science to life – from species to space
This year the Science Department went all out to celebrate British Science Week. First they helped colleagues across the school integrate science into their subjects by sharing video clips on…
You CAN judge these books by their (brilliant) covers
In the Upper School World Book day doesn’t require last minute costume changes and face paint (though we know lots of the students would love that too) – instead we…
