Category: Upper School – King Alfred School
High School Musical Is Magic
Last week students from Years 7-9 presented the all American ‘High School Musical’ full of cheerleaders, jocks, brainiacs and some fabulous musical numbers including ‘We’re all in this together’ performed…
Growing For The Future With Year 7
Year 7 students have become farmers as part of their Interdisciplinary Enquiry (IE) topic this term. They have been tasked with answering the question: How do we feed an overpopulated…
Creativity On Display In The Year 13 Final Show
The combined forces of the visual arts were on display across both KAS sites in a recent exhibition of work by Y13 students. The staff and students were proud to…
Talking Shakespeare With Year 7
Our Year 7 students aced the ISA Shakespeare Monologue competition! There were two categories – Learnt Monologue and Original Monologue where students were tasked with writing their own speech based…
Music, Music, Everywhere!
Students from Y6 upwards took part in one of the regular informal concerts in the Music Department earlier this month. The concerts, hosted by our fabulous team of music teachers,…
Sporting Success Near And Far
There is always a lot of sport going on around KAS, from after school clubs to Choice on Wednesdays and Fridays and competitive team matches against other schools. Last week…
It’s All Greek for Year 7
Year 7 took a step back in time for their Greek-themed creativity week. They stepped away from their normal lessons to take part in a variety of different activities which…
UAL Devised Drama Is A Cult Hit
In January mysterious posters started appearing around the school—we asked Y13 UAL student Talitha to explain what went down when delegates signed up to attend the Exe-one Conference. “Myself, along…
Y9 Boys Win ISA Football Tournament
Last week PE teacher Tom was up early in order to drive the Y9 boys football team to Nottingham to take part in the ISA Schools Tournament. It was a…
Y7 Exhibition: A New Way Of Learning
This year we have begun to introduce an innovative new curriculum for Years 6-8. Our Year 7 students have just completed their first full Term experiencing this innovative and balanced…
