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KAStonbury 2025: “A glorious celebration of our community”
Who needs Worthy Farm? This year’s summer fair at The King Alfred School – or ‘KAStonbury’, as it’s known – was a great success, featuring fun, food and excellent entertainment! The KAS community pulled out all the stops to make this year’s event extra special. Activity stations included face painting, a nail station, a bookstall…
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…
Celebrating Art in Lower School
“We all worked hard and transformed it into something you’d never really have imagined that we could do.” Hugo, Year 4 Magical things often happen in the Lower School Hall, but this half term got off to a particularly strong start with an exhibition of artwork and ceramics by students from Years 2 to 6….
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…
KAS celebrates a successful ISI inspection
The whole KAS community is today celebrating our latest inspection report, which has just been published. Inspectors from the Independent School Inspectorate (ISI) praised the school for helping students become “confident, self-aware young people” who feel “empowered to express themselves freely”. As the report states: “Pupils gain the knowledge to thrive at school and beyond.”…
Spotlight on: Modern Foreign Languages
The vibrant Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) department at The King Alfred School allows students to learn French and Spanish. In the spirit of the school’s philosophy, our MFL provision also offers many opportunities for deeper learning and personal development. French is taught from Reception (ages 4-5), and language lessons continue to be core to the…
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…
