Category: Upper School – King Alfred School
Adventures & life lessons at Year 9 camp
Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves” – Euripides, 5th century playwright Summer Term saw our Year 9s swap classrooms for coastlines, heading off on week-long adventures in Cornwall, Dorset and Devon. Hiking over rugged cliffs, cycling along winding lanes, paddle-boarding on the glistening sea – every day brought new challenges and adventures….
Walking through history, stepping into nature: Summer Explorations at KAS
This Summer Term, students in Years 7 and 8 tackled two very different – but equally important – questions in their termly Explorations projects: Year 7: “How should we commemorate events that we are not proud of?” Year 8: “Why are green spaces important in London?” Explorations are term-long, cross-curricular projects for Years 6–8, designed…
Year 7’s week of fun: learning beyond the classroom!
Students in Year 7 embraced a briefly suspended timetable during Summer Term to enjoy Activities Week – an eagerly anticipated highlight of the school calendar. With Years 11–13 on exam leave, Year 10 away on European language trips, Year 9 at camp, and Year 8 participating in The Village Project, Activities Week gives Year 7…
Year 7 find inspiration at Kew Gardens
Year 7 made the most of the summer sunshine on a recent trip to Kew Gardens. They were there, in part, to get inspiration for their current Exploration enquiry, ‘How can we redesign the Middle School Common Room?’ Students spent half of the day exploring Kew’s glorious grounds. Highlights included The Hive, a 17-metre installation…
TEDx Talk triumphs for students, staff & parents
“TEDx isn’t just an opportunity to speak, it’s an opportunity to make connections.” The fifth iteration of TEDxKingAlfredSchool saw 15 speakers take to the stage in the school’s Main Hall to share their thoughts and ideas. The event is an opportunity for participants to push themselves out of their comfort zones, giving five-minute talks from…
Students shine in “West End worthy” show
The KAS community was blown away by this term’s Middle School show, which was hailed as “sensational”, “sheer joy” and “magical from start to finish”. Over 60 students from Years 7 to 9 participated in a two-night run of Sister Act Jr. at the Arts Depot. It was staged with the help of our UAL…
An emotional farewell to our Year 11s
Happy tears were shed at our annual Year 11 Leavers’ Breakfast, as students, parents and staff gathered to mark the start of GCSE study leave. Form tutors shared words of praise for each of their students, whilst Head of Year 11 Lynne Sasson emotionally recounted their collective journey over the five years of Upper School….
Creativity brings cultures together
Displaced young people visited The King Alfred School over the course of eight weeks for a project that saw the sharing of cultures, cuisines and creativity. KAS students collaborated with the Babylon Migrants Project, an organisation that encourages personal development, teamwork, and self-expression in young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds. In four…
Parents marvel at end-of-term exhibition: “A clear love of learning”
Two fantastic student exhibitions took place at the end of Spring Term, with Years 7 & 8 proudly showing off the culmination of a term’s work. Year 7 Parents were invited into school to view Year 7’s final projects based on two enquiry questions: ‘Is space exploration ethical?’ in STEM and ‘Should we fear or…
Ski trip 2025: a student (and teacher’s) perspective!
This year’s annual ski trip saw a group of 40 KAS students travel to Val di Fiemme in the Dolomites, Italy, for five days of fun on the slopes, accompanied by five teachers. Below you can read two accounts – one by a student, the other by a teacher – of the trip, and also…
