Facilities & development

Our school is located on a beautiful, green 12-acre site in Battersea, on the edge of Wandsworth Common. Its fantastic position, only 10 minutes’ walk from Clapham Junction rail station, connects the school to central London, as well as north and south of the river.

The handsome Victorian building at the centre of the school site was originally designed by noted architect Henry Saxon Snell as an orphanage. We have cricket pitches, rugby grounds, a swimming pool, a mini astro, a climbing wall, netball, tennis and aerobics facilities on the Battersea site. Off site, we have 14 acres of privately owned playing fields for our major sports, 20 minutes away near Raynes Park. We also have our own boat house and specialist gym, next to Barnes Bridge.

We have always aimed to provide our pupils with the best educational environment. In 2022 we doubled the size of our Sixth Form Centre and are currently redeveloping our off-site sports ground. The new Sixth Form Centre provides a modern, multi-purpose study and congregating spaces for pupils, while the off-site sports plan has created a new all-weather hockey pitch, cricket nets and two new cricket squares, enabling further expansion of our sports provision, including tennis for all pupils.

We aim to further develop our specialist teaching spaces and other areas, following our critical build plan in the coming years.

Travelling to Emanuel

Thanks to the school’s fortunate position four miles from the centre of London, our pupils are able to travel to school using the area’s fantastic public transport links. Approximately 34% of our pupils walk or cycle to school, with the remaining 66% using public or personal transport.

Emanuel School is a ten-minute walk along well-lit roads from Clapham Junction, which is a ten-minute train journey from London Waterloo. Many pupils walk to and from the train station at the start and end of the school day. With 2,000 trains passing through the station on a daily basis, the area is well-connected to the city, the southeast and the southwest.

The public bus routes surrounding the school are plentiful, with direct services stopping near the school from a far-reaching radius including Hammersmith, Fulham, Wimbledon, Roehampton, Putney, Barnes, Richmond, Streatham, Kensington and the city.

For more information on local public transport links, please visit www.tfl.gov.uk.