A smart idea from a team of young entrepreneurs has impressed judges in an annual enterprise challenge.Team Lumiere, from Emmanuel College, came a close second place with their smart watch that monitors exposure to ultraviolet light and alerts the wearer to dangerous...
A-Level literature students have been (happily!) inundated by Shakespeare over the course of the past week. This started with their attendance at the ETT’s production of ‘Othello’ at Northern Stage. Captivated by the plight of “one who loved not wisely but too well”,...
This week saw another outstanding House event where students delivered poems, prose and speeches in the House Poetry and Prose competition. The Year 7 audience was captivated by prose passages from Year 7, recitals of poems from Year 8, and powerful speeches from Year...
HIGH achievers at Emmanuel College in Gateshead have celebrated family firsts after securing places at prestigious Oxbridge universities. Ryan Cunningham and Faye Effard are the first generation from each of their families to go on to higher education. Faye, 18, of...
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions” (Oliver Wendell Holmes) Blue skies and glorious sunshine crowned this year’s Activities Week, as students at Emmanuel College embraced a week of learning beyond the classroom –...
Through a link recently set up by the College Music Department, A Level Music students from Years 12 and 13 were offered the rare opportunity to observe an orchestral rehearsal at the Sage on Friday 9 March. A Lithuanian-born violinist, violist and conductor, but...
