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KAS Academic Lectures, Spring 2018

5th January 2018

The King Alfred School is pleased to announce the list of speakers for the Spring 2018 Academic Lectures.  This term’s talks will explore poetry, architecture, creative thought, art, film and…

Alfred's Room: A New Space For Year 7-9 Students

8th December 2017

There is a creative buzz in the school on Friday afternoons as we reach the final stages of construction on Alfred’s Room. The existing Green Building Common Room is being…

KAS Media Teacher Named Travel Photographer of the Year

27th November 2017

Nuray Jemil, KAS Head of Media and Film Department, has been named 2017 Travel Photographer of the Year by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW). The BGTW is a…

Year 11 Students Win Awards at UK National Quantum Tech Hub Competition

22nd November 2017

King Alfred Students pictured with Professor Bongs, Professor of Cold Atom Physics with the University of Birmingham, giving a demonstration of cooling down particles using lasers. King Alfred Year 11…

Lessons from Auschwitz: KAS Students Participate in Holocaust Education Trust Program

20th November 2017

How do you begin to comprehend the enormity of the murder of six million individuals at the hands of the Nazi party and their collaborators during the Second World War?…

KAS Graduate Awarded Savoy Educational Trust Scholarship

15th November 2017

Image: Edge Hotel School Ben Ward, KAS graduate 2016, has been awarded the Savoy Educattional Trust scholarship to study at the Edge Hotel School, University of Essex. His new university…

Reflections on KASS Annual Conference – “The Adolescent and the Phone”

15th November 2017

Speakers: John Carr, Sonia Livingstone, Robert Lobatto, Sandra Eaton Grey and Richard Graham “The IPhone has celebrated its 10th birthday.  Ten years ago we would not be discussing this topic”…

Girls Football Teams Revolutionise the Sport at KAS

13th October 2017

Girls Football is undergoing a renaissance at KAS. The popularity of the sport among Upper School girls has grown exponentially in the last few years. We now have teams across…

Community Action Program at KAS

11th October 2017

  We are exited to announce the launch of KAS’s new Community Action program for Year 12 students. As part of the new initiative, each student has chosen a school,…

Expeditionary Year – Iceland Trip Summer 2017

1st October 2017

During the summer holidays, three Year 11 KAS students traded in their familiar London life for three weeks in the remote Icelandic wilderness. They joined nine other students from Whole…

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