Supplementary Sessions

AT SCHOOL SESSIONS

Whilst KAA has remained open throughout the lockdown to vulnerable students and children of keyworkers, on 15 June we were delighted to welcome back our Year 10 and Year 12 students for supplementary sessions with their teachers.

For Year 12 students, this involved seminars for all of their subjects in the COVID-secure teaching spaces created in the theatre and sports hall (top right). For Year 10, students were grouped into COVID-secure “bubbles” and visited school once or twice a week for a series of Maths, English and Science supplementary sessions in social distanced classrooms (pictured bottom right).

KAA@Home lessons continued alongside these sessions, but they provided us with an important opportunity for teachers to assess learning completed at home and adapt the remaining KAA@Home lessons to our students’ needs. In the final weeks of term, all year groups completed their usual End of Year assessments via KAA@Home and parents will receive their usual End of Year parent report shortly.

By Miss Cockell

On Wednesday 6 th May students attending the Contingency School were treated to a virtual music workshop by

member of the BBC Singers, Ed Price.

This workshop, part of BBC's Connecting the Dots scheme, took place via Zoom, with students forming a socially-distanced audience in the KS3 library. Ed delivered a 20-minute workshop focusing on ‘rhythm’.

Students participated in interactive clapping activities to become familiar with rhythm and pulse before learning a piece of music based on body percussion. Ed then told students about his career in choral music and we were able to ask questions, including ‘did you know that you always wanted to be a singer?’ (Levi), ‘what is your favourite piece to perform?’ (Miss Cockell) and ‘have you met the Queen?’ (Tristan).

Overall, the workshop gave students the opportunity to meet a professional musician in a novel setting and start their morning with some active music-making.