Eight of our past and present students rubbed shoulders with royalty and celebrities in the gardens of Buckingham Palace for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Gold Award celebration event in mid-May. It was a beautiful, sunny day in the flower-laden gardens with the royal...
Last week saw over 30 of our Year 10 students head out to Hadrian’s Wall for their Silver DofE practice expedition. Recent rains meant that everyone was up to their knees in clarts within the first ten minutes, as groups climbed up on to Winshields Crags on Thursday...
On 3 May, a number of Emmanuel College students attended an event at Newcastle University to celebrate their success in the annual Newcastle University Maths Challenge. Rosie (Year 10) and Elliott (Year 9) received prizes for their outstanding solutions – both of them...
On Wednesday 3 May, we were the privileged hosts of David Smith, Economics Editor at The Sunday Times. This was a promised visit after our young economists inundated him with entries to his annual Christmas quiz and were declared the winners! (See background story...
Super-fast spelling skills have landed Year 7’s Harry a place in the National Finals of the Foreign Languages Spelling Bee at Cambridge University. In late April, we hosted the Regional Finals of the Foreign Languages Spelling Bee. Students are given a list of 200...
The Creative Arts Auditorium was the venue for our talented singers, instrumentalists, dancers and bands as the House Performing Arts Competition returned after a three-year break. The audience and judges were completely wowed by the talent of our students and, of...
