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Students from King Alfred Sixth Form Academy in Highbridge will have the opportunity to ask a diverse panel a range of questions concerning, local, national and international issues.
DANIEL Maydew, 17, of The King Alfred School Academy (TKASA), has finished first in the English Schools AA Virtual Cross Country Championships. The high-flying teenager has been running for Wells City Harriers since Year 8, spending most days of the week training. Now his hard work has paid off with the prestigious title of England’s best. Maydew’s sporting success is all the more impressive in light of his academic record, achieving straight A grades in his GCSE exams in 2020. He is also progressing very well in his A Levels in Maths, English Literature and History at the Sixth...
Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge students at King Alfred School Academy’s Sixth Form have been chosen ahead of sixth forms across the country for an important research programme at Exeter University. The A Level Psychology students will be acting as research assistants in a groundbreaking study involving younger students in the school, giving them unique experience in their careers. Graduates of The King Alfred School Academy are reading Psychology at some of the UK’s leading universities including Oxford, Bath, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Exeter, with the subject getting more popular every y...
Highbridge’s King Alfred School Academy has hosted a call from a global expert to mark International Darwin Day. The school’s Sixth Form Human Evolution Society hosted a talk with Dr Andrew Macrae, a Professor of Environmental Microbiology at the University of Rio de Janeiro. He discussed Darwin’s visit to Brazil in 1832 and his research into evolutionary biology. It was followed up with a quiz and a talk by Head of Sixth Form Jonathan Gaskell discussing the oldest human skeleton ever found, known as ‘Ardi’, dating back 4.4 million years. Student Grace Huggins hosted the event which...
Three students from The King Alfred School Academy have received firm offers to study at Cambridge and Oxford universities next year, with other students receiving offers from Cardiff, St Andrews, Queen’s in Belfast, King's College in London, Durham, and Sheffield.