Tag: The King Alfred School
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…
It’s beginning to look a lot like (recycled) Christmas!
In the Lower School – the classrooms are decorated for the last week of term with festive snowflakes, paper-chains, popcorn garlands and twinkling trees. What all these decorations have in…
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…
Meet The Teachers – The English Department
What makes King Alfred School so special? Ask any of our students and they’ll say ‘the teachers’ – so we thought we’d peek behind the curtain and find out a…
Poetry inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement
In Y6 students have been looking at the Black Lives Matter movement. They’ve read poems by Benjamin Zephania and discussed racism and diversity. One student was inspired to write this…
Here be dragons
Sara’s Y4 class were excited to show off the work they’ve been doing on Dragons this term. The topic, which has encompassed all aspects of the curriculum, started with the…
Autumn team-building days
As students move into new year groups, the Autumn term is traditionally a time when we take Year groups off site. This year we’re not able to provide residential camps…
Fundraising fun
On the last day before half term our Lower School students turned up in a terrifying array of costumes to celebrate the holiday and raise funds for the Parent/ Staff…
