Emanuel School
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| Emanuel School | |
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| Established | 1594 |
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| School type | Coeducational Public Day School |
| Headmaster | M D Hanley-Browne |
| Location | Battersea, London, England |
| Website | www.emanuel.org.uk |
Emanuel School is a co-educational independent school in Battersea, South-West London, England. Emanuel prides itself on doing things just a little bit differently from the other top schools in the area, with the aim of encouraging applications from pupils with particular talents in art, music, drama and sport.
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[edit] History
Emanuel School is one of the three schools administered by the Westminster Schools’ Foundation. It came into being by the will of Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre, dated 1594. In it she wrote:
- "I will and devise that myne executors shall cause to be erected and builte a meete and convenient house with rooms of habitation for twentie poor folkes, and twentie other poor children...."
Emanuel School was founded in 1594. At the time, Lady Dacre wrote that one of the main aims of the Foundation was
- "for the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so that they might better live in time to come by their honest labour."
With Lady Dacre's benefaction in 1594, Emanuel Hospital, as it was first called, began. The children wore a long brown tunic, rather similar in cut to that still worn by Christ's Hospital. Thanks to the interest of Queen Elizabeth I, cousin to Lady Dacre, a charter was drawn up, buildings were erected on a site in Westminster, and the school and hospice continued their work.
In 1883, the school sought larger, newer buildings for the children, and the boy boarders, as they all then were, moved to the present buildings on the edge of Wandsworth Common. These buildings had been put up as an orphanage after the Crimean War by the Royal Victoria Patriotic Fund, and in a much adapted form still constitute the main teaching block of the school.
[edit] Present day
Emanuel is going from strength to strength, celebrating all aspects of school life, both academic, and in sport, music, art, drama and other areas of life.
Recent additions include a brand new sports centre complete with climbing walls, dance studios, teaching rooms and a multigym, plus the conversion of the old gymnasium into a brand new dining facility and refectory overlooking the school's own playing fields. Future changes include the multi-million pound refurbishment of the old Victorian building to comprise a brand new library and media resources centre, new ICT facilities, a theatre, exhibitions spaces, drama studios, refurbished classrooms and corridors.
The Headmaster, Mark Hanley-Browne, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). He was educated at the University of Oxford (biological sciences), and the University of Cambridge, where he did postgraduate teacher training. Previously he was Deputy Headmaster at Highgate and Head of Careers and Higher Education at Charterhouse.
[edit] Curriculum
Pupils undertake GCSE, AS and A-Level exams. Subjects range from the usual core English, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics through history, geography, economics, government and politics, business studies, music, art, theatre studies, design and technology, physical education, religious studies, classics and information technology to languages including French, German, Spanish, Latin and Greek.
In the Sixth Form pupils undertake four subjects at AS-Level and progress to three, or more commonly four, at full A-Level. Work experience is undertaken in the Lower Sixth with far-ranging options chosen by pupils themselves. Recent placements have included City banks, insurance companies, law firms, hospitals, television production, chemists and many more.
[edit] Sport & Activities
Sport is seen as a major part of school life, the main sports being rugby, rowing, cricket, netball, athletics and swimming. Many other sports are also available, with matches held against other schools. These include tennis, football, water polo, squash, gymnastics, basketball, table tennis, climbing, fives, badminton, golf and fencing. Frequent opponents include Dulwich College, Latymer Upper, Westminster, and St Paul's.
Pupils are able to take the Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Other prominant activities include the Young Enterprise and Target 2.0 business schemes.
[edit] School Life
Uniform is worn throughout the school up to the Sixth Form, where a strict dress code of a formal suit is followed. Pupils are allocated to one of eight houses, each with a House Captain and House Prefects.
Senior Prefects and the Head Boy and Girl share the staff's authority in discipline and organisation of the school.
Each year sees 8–12 pa trips abroad; exchanges in French, German and Spanish schools, together with study tours to Catalonia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Krakow and other European cities; annual choir tours, which have included Malta and prominently New York; and sports tours to Canada, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Australia.
[edit] School Houses
There are four combined houses, split into senior and junior sections, creating a total of eight houses
- Marlborough
- Lyons
- Nelson
- Drake
- Rodney
- Wellington
- Howe
- Clyde
[edit] Departments
- Art (Head: Miss SE Macmillan)
- Biology & Biological Sciences (Dr BA Reynolds)
- Business Studies (Head: Mr RS Tong)
- Chemistry (Head: Mrs CM Maher)
- Classics (Head: Mr NM Mullen)
- Design & Technology (Head: Mr CJ Lynn)
- Drama & Theatre Studies (Head: Dr BW Last)
- Economics (Head: Mr RS Tong)
- English Language & Literature (Head: Miss JR Pattman)
- French (Head: Mrs SM Williams-Ryan)
- Geography (Head: Mr WJ Purkis)
- German (Head: Mr H Jackson)
- Government & Politics (Head: Mr RP Berlie)
- History (Head: Mr RP Berlie)
- Information & Communication Technology (Head: Mr BP Howard)
- Mathematics (Head: Mr NM Fazaluddin)
- Music (Head: Mr JS Holmes)
- Physical Education (Head: Mr SJ Bettinson)
- Physics (Head: Mrs JA Morrison-Bartlett)
- Religious Studies & Philosophy (Head: Miss LC Cleveland)
- Spanish (Head: Mrs A Zaratiegui)
- Study Skills (Head: Mrs RA Collins)
[edit] Notable Old Emanuels
- Michael Aldred - co-presenter of landmark 60's pop show Ready Steady Go!
- Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah of Brunei
- Naveen Andrews - television and film actor
- Michael Aspel - television presenter
- Air Vice-Marshal George Banting [1]
- Kenneth C. Barnes - educationalist and teacher at Bedales School, and headmaster and founder of Wennington School.[2]
- Simon Barnes - chief sports correspondent for The Times
- Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee KBE FRS - inventor of the World Wide Web, and professor at MIT.
- Dr Clive Bruton - neuropathologist [3]
- Colin Chambers - Royal Shakespeare Company literary advisor
- Dr Sumit Chanda - Group Leader, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.
- Dr Kevan Clemens - Director of Chelsea Therapeutics International Inc. previously Executive Vice President of Pharmaceutical Business at Hoffmann-La Roche. [4]
- Group Captain H.S. Darley DSO [5]
- Rupert Degas - actor
- Professor Michael Duff - Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics, and principal of the faculty of physical sciences, Imperial College, London
- Dr Gwilym 'Tubby' Evans FRCOG - consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and senior registrar, Guy's Hospital [6] [7]
- Professor Derek Fray - Professor of Materials Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- Sir Arthur Galsworthy KCMG, British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and formerly British Ambassador to Ireland.
- Sir John Galsworthy KCVO CMG - British Ambassador to Mexico
- Sir William Geraghty KCB - Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State (Admin) MOD.
- Professor Robert Gibson - Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science, Imperial College, London
- Professor A.C. Gimson - phonetician and head of the department of phonetics and linguistics, University College, London. [8]
- Ronald Gray - Life Fellow in German, Emmanuel College, Cambridge [9]
- Professor Peter Goddard FRS CBE - mathematical physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and formerly Master of St John's College, Cambridge.
- Steve Gooch - dramatist
- Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; formerly Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal.
- Leslie Henson - actor
- Douglas Hickox - film director
- Kevin Jackson - writer, works include Withnail and I [10]
- Professor Ivor James - professor of cello, Royal College of Music [11]
- Professor Tony Larkum - Professorial Fellow in Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
- George Lyward OBE - educationalist, teacher, (Emanuel School, Glenalmond College, and the Perse School under W. H. D. Rouse) and founder of Finchden Manor progressive community for young people. [12]
- Mark MacGregor - former Conservative Party chief executive
- Richard Marquand - film director
- Professor David Marquand - academic and formerly principal of Mansfield College, Oxford; ex-Labour Party MP and SDP co-founder.
- Professor Ed Nice - Principal Research Fellow, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
- Professor Denis Noble FRS CBE - Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford.
- Sir John Page Knt OBE [13] [14]
- Andi Peters - television presenter and producer
- J.B. Phillips - theologian and clergyman
- Vernon Richards - anarchist writer [15]
- Major-General David Roberts FRCP, FRCPE, RAMC, Director of Army Medicine and Honorary Physician to The Queen. [16] [17]
- Geoffrey Robinson MP, former Paymaster General
- Professor Sir Owen Saunders Kt FRS - Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Rector of Imperial College, London. [18]
- N.F. Simpson - dramatist
- Commander Chris Stanley - Assistant Director, Tactical Defence, Maritime Warfare Centre, MOD.
- Stuart Surridge - cricketer
- Matthew Taylor - politician [19]
- Brigadier David Warren MC DSO, OBE [20]
- Sir Ronald Wates Kt - Property developer, along with brothers Norman Wates and Alan Wates.[21] [22]
- Geoff Watts - broadcaster and journalist [23]
- Clive Wilmer - poet
- Dr Aasim Yusuf FRCP - gastroenterologist and Medical Director, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore.
[edit] Notable Masters
Former staff include:
- J. A. Cuddon - Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. [24] [25]
- Jeremy Edwards - Master of Westminster Under School.
- Tristram Jones-Parry - Formerly Headmaster of Emanuel School and Westminster School.
- The Rev. Jack McDonald - Theologian, and Fellow and Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
- Howard Roberts - Artist, and gallery proprieter.[26]
