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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
How do we handle History? Part 1
This is part 1 of a two part series of how we study History at Emmanuel. In this post we look at our curriculum and in the second post we will consider the philosophy which underlies our approach. Each Friday at Emmanuel children from Years 1 to 6 study History...
Loving our schools back to normal
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cNd3FBlBWPQ I was asked to write this article for a charity who are working for parents so that schools are healthy and safe for children as they return full time in September 2020. It’s been a turbulent time for schools followed by...
Becoming: Towards a Christian Philosophy and Practice of Education
In January 2020, I spoke at a conference run by the Davenant Institute in Oxford entitled, ‘Becoming: Towards a Philosophy of Christian Education’. This talk sums up my journey as a teacher and our journey as a school in the last three years. You can listen below: The...