Creative Activities
Our students benefit from a variety of expression activities, where they can think creatively, work together, learn new skills, exercise their perseverance and express their identities and thoughts.
Creativity and Culture
Students try out a wide range of activities across fields such as art, music, dance and drama, using purpose-built facilities such as our music rooms, amphitheatres and exercise studios. They gain experience not only in their chosen activities, but in teamwork, perseverance, responsibility and leadership as they specialise during their senior years.
At AKA Maputo, various extracurricular clubs are offered after school twice a week for one hour. Students are given a choice to pick from numerous age-appropriate activities that are led by a teacher supervisor who has expertise in the activity.
Our activities take place according to demand, availability or student initiatives, and in recent years, students have been able to try:
- Sewing club
- Taekwondo
- Environmental club
- Journalism club
- Football club
Imaginations run wild as AKA Maputo students use the various art supplies available to them in their art classrooms.
AKA Maputo’s dance studio provides students with an open space they can use daily to freely express themselves.
Music classrooms at AKA Maputo are equipped with numerous musical instruments for students to use.
Musical and dance performances are performed by AKA Maputo students, celebrating their cultures as well as others.
Various expression-related extracurricular activities are available for AKA Maputo students to participate in after school.
AKA Maputo students have the opportunity to join the school choir, where they practice and perform their songs.
Rhythm, Movement and Marrabenta
Junior School students at AKA Maputo celebrated the traditional Mozambican dance music of Marrabenta on Friday, 26 March, with a day of dancing, music and activities.
Marrabenta, developed in Maputo during the 1930s and 1940s under Portuguese colonial rule, combines traditional Mozambican rhythms with Portuguese folk music and remains popular today.
Students and staff wore capulana outfits, a traditional Mozambican attire, and learnt about Marrabenta throughout the day. During assembly, they practised traditional dance moves and learnt the music’s history, while the afternoon featured Mozambican games, songs and more dancing.
"It was wonderful to see the Academy in a wonderful celebration of a local tradition," said Junior School Principal Maike Silver.
Virtual Observational Drawing Lessons
During September and October 2020, AKA Mombasa and AKA Maputo ran joint online classes to teach Grade 10 students observational drawing. Led by art teachers Antoinette Blaine and Sumeya Taquidir, the sessions aimed to improve students’ art skills and boost their confidence
Students completed short drawing exercises from observation to develop perception and understanding.
"Virtual learning has challenges, but it also offers opportunities," said Antoinette, highlighting collaboration across time zones. Sumeya added that online teaching encourages teamwork while maintaining creativity. She noted that co-teaching via Zoom helped facilitate activities and allowed students to interact with teachers from other academies, using technology to learn and create art.
