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Inspiring creativity
Students at the AKA Maputo engage in a variety of expression activities allowing them to explore their creativity.
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Expression 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 knowledge about the activity.

Whilst activities take place according to demand, availability or student initiatives, in recent years students have been able to try:

  • Sewing club
  • Taekwondo
  • Environmental club
  • Recycling club
  • Football club.

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Students talking with each other in the courtyard of the residences at AKA Maputo.

Since 2019, the residential programme at AKA Maputo has been a second home for students from all over the world.

A residential student doing their laundry at AKA Maputo.

As part of the residential programme at AKA Maputo, students learn important life skills like doing their laundry and ironing their clothes.

Two students spending time together in their residential room at AKA Maputo.

Residential students share a room with up to three students and have separate study and storage spaces.

Students playing a game with each other in the main courtyard at AKA Maputo.

Different activities are offered for residential students to participate in on the weekends, allowing them chances to bond with each.

Students playing a game with each other inside the residential common room at AKA Maputo.

Residential students have plenty of free time to play sports, study or be with friends on the weekends at AKA Maputo.

Students studying and working on homework in the AKA Maputo library.

Residential students have an allocated time and space where they study and do their homework during the evenings while being supervised by a residential parent.

Students and teachers on an excursion outside of the Academy.

Excursions and off-campus service learning activities are done on the weekends for AKA Maputo residential students.

A residential parent hugging a residential student at AKA Maputo.

Equipped with various art supplies, students at AKA Maputo explore their creativity in their art classrooms.

AKA Maputo students eating lunch together

A variety of nutritious meals and snacks are provided for AKA Maputo residential students throughout the day.

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Rhythm, movement and Marrabenta

AKA Maputo JS students dancing outside and dressed in cultural outfits.
AKA Maputo JS students dancing.
Junior School students at the Aga Khan Academy Maputo celebrated the traditional Mozambican dance music of Marrabenta on Friday, 26 March with a day filled with dancing, music and much more. Marrabenta is a well-known style of Mozambican dance music, which combines traditional Mozambican rhythms with Portuguese folk music. The music was developed in Maputo during the 1930s and 1940s while Mozambique was still under Portuguese colonial rule and is still seen today. At the Academy, JS students and staff could be seen wearing capulana outfits, a traditional Mozambican attire, and learning about Marrabenta throughout the day. During their assembly, the JS students learned some traditional dance moves and the history of Marrabenta, whilst the afternoon was filled with traditional Mozambican games, songs and more dance. “It was wonderful to see the Academy in a wonderful celebration of a local tradition,” said JS Principal Maike Silver.

Virtual observational drawing lessons across Academies

A close-up of an AKA Maputo student painting inside a classroom.
AKA Maputo student painting.
During September and October 2020, the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa and the Aga Khan Academy Maputo hosted joint online classes to teach Year 10 students observational drawing. The classes, which are being led by Art teachers Antoinette Blaine from AKA Mombasa and Sumeya Taquidir from AKA Maputo, not only enhance the students’ art skills, but help boost their artistic confidence as well. Throughout the virtual sessions, students undertook various short drawing exercises by means of observation, which is said to develop the qualities of perception and understanding of whatever is drawn. “Although virtual learning has posed some challenges, it has also presented interesting and positive opportunities,” Antoinette said. “One of these is the possibility of collaborating with other classes and teachers across time zones and distance.” Sumeya also said this new era of teaching has invited various opportunities of teamwork, while ensuring the continuity of creativity. “I have been planning some lessons with Antoinette and she participated in the Zoom class with me to help facilitate some drawing activities which have been successful. With all of the students online, the extra help has been welcomed. It was interesting to see the continuity of promoting creativity even though being online. I see this as an opportunity for students to embrace new ideas by interacting with teachers from other academies and use technology as a tool to not only communicate, but to also create art.”