Imagine taking part in a nationwide, team-based, real-life Engineering challenge, the brief of which is not revealed to you until the morning of the competition! This is exactly what faced a group of 36 students from Year 8 during a visit from the IET (Institute of...
On the last week of the Spring Term, six Year 8 students travelled south to Cranfield University – the only university in Europe with its own airport and runway. We were to be the first school students in the country to visit the National Flying Laboratory centre!...
A team of four enthusiastic sixth-form engineers from Emmanuel College blew the judges away and soared to victory in the Aviation Challenge 2022. Held at Hartlepool’s College of Further Education, the Aviation Challenge brings together teams from across the region...
Eleven intrepid explorers from Years 8 and 9 headed to the Yorkshire Dales in February for an underground adventure through the Long Churn cave system. After donning wetsuits and caving suits, the group made their way past Alum Pot and entered the limestone system...
Some nerves were jangling as a dozen Year 7 students arrived in Weardale to explore Jacob’s Pot on a wintry Friday evening. With suits, helmets and torches donned, the group were able to navigate by Mars in the night sky through the fields to the edge of Harehope...
GCSE and A level Economics students are no strangers to the economic analysis produced by David Smith, Economics Editor of The Sunday Times. Reading David’s weekly analysis is firmly embedded into the Economics curriculum. On 17 December, David published his annual...
