Tag: Year 7
British Science Week 2024
Students have had a wonderful opportunity to celebrate British Science Week with a selection of workshops over the last week or so. We welcomed a Explorer Dome to the school…
Exploring Kew With Year 7
Students in Year 7 braved the cold snap for a trip to Kew Gardens to launch one of this Term’s Explorations. Explorations are extended projects which are led by teams…
Year 7 STEM Exploration
At The King Alfred School, Year 7 students partake in term long interdisciplinary enquiry projects (‘Explorations’). Explorations provide students with a deeper learning experience and the opportunity to develop their…
Sports On The Rise At KAS
It has been fantastic to see an increased uptake in sports so far this academic year at KAS. We have had some incredible numbers joining our clubs and the PE…
Year 7 Camp 2023
The beginning of the new academic year brought about another Year 7 camp for our latest cohort. This time, the students were taken to Somerset for a week of bonding…
Year 7 Exploration Takes Off
As part of the interdisciplinary curriculum followed by our Year 6-8 students, our new Year 7s were bringing together Science and Design as they built and tested paper rockets. This…
Poetry Pleases
Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 were inspired by visiting poet Adisa earlier this term. He came in on National Poetry Day to perform and run workshops. The students…
Camps Bringing Students Together
At the start of the Autumn Term students in Year 7 and Year 12 headed off on camp. As entry points, where students join from other schools, camps are a…
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…
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…
