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What if?
What if education was not just about what you know but who you are becoming?
What if education was not just focused on the destination but the adventure of the journey?
What if education was not just about individual achievement but my contribution to a community?
We invite you to find the answers to these questions at Emmanuel Christian School where you will discover a beautiful simplicity in our school life and profound depth in our learning. The more you question, the more you will discover that our convictions about learning are integrated and whole and so able to meet the needs of the whole child.
At Emmanuel we educate with thoughtful convictions about what it means to be human, what it means to be whole, and what it means to learn in a wholesome way. We hope you will come and taste and see what makes this school so special and become part of its story.
Mrs Nesbitt
Principal
“Children thrive academically at Emmanuel and develop in qualities we all want for our children: love, patience, kindness, faithfulness and forgiveness.”
Reflections from the Principal
From Acorn to Oak
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendour. Isaiah 61: 6 When we renamed our reception class last year, ‘Acorns’, there was an intended resonance with our school symbol of an oak tree. The process of...
Blackberry Picking
Over the next few weeks we will be beginning our last topic of term, 'Detectives for Goodness'. The children are reading one of my favourite books, Patricia St John's 'Treasures of the Snow' which tells the story of two proud children who discover treasure in a bleak...
How do we handle History? Part 2
In November 2018, I led a week of assemblies reflecting on each year of World War 1 as we prepared for the 100th Remembrance Day. I recalled different battles I had learnt in GCSE History but it was very sobering learning about them with younger children. Their...