Co-curricular Life

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Co-curricular life

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The overarching feel of Emanuel is understated excellence: this is not a school that shows off - but don’t underestimate it.

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Pupils at Emanuel benefit from a rich variety of activities beyond the classroom, led by enthusiastic and talented professional coaches and staff.

Friendships, passions and opportunities for leadership all come through being part of a team, a society, or a club. At Emanuel, every pupil is encouraged to take full advantage of the broad co-curricular opportunities. Pupils develop life-long skills and interests outside of their academic subjects.This balance not only broadens horizons, but also has important benefits for wellbeing and mental health.

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Pupils are enthusiastically engaged in a well-resourced programme.

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Sport thrives at Emanuel, offering the opportunity to improve personal fitness, boost mental wellbeing and develop specific skills. Being part of a team is central to our sporting ethos.

The quality of coaching is excellent at all levels. We run almost 1000 inter-school fixtures across a year and we compete very favourably against our co-educational rivals in London. Emanuel School is recognised as being one of the top performers in this sector among HMC schools.

Pupils benefit from the school’s excellent on-site and off-site sporting facilities. Emanuel School has one of the top boathouses on the Thames, located at Barnes Bridge. On the main site at Battersea Rise, there are 12 acres of playing fields for rugby, football and cricket, a 25m swimming pool, netball courts, a large sports hall with multi-lane cricket wickets, a strength and conditioning gym, an aerobic suite, a dance studio, a mini-astro, a climbing wall and tennis courts. Further offsite sports facilities are located 20 minutes away in Raynes Park. There we have a 14-acre site that will be developed for hockey, tennis, netball, cricket, football and rugby in the coming years. We expect this to be one of the best sporting facilities in the local area.

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Sport at Emanuel

Cross Country

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Swimming

Water Polo

Football (girls)

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Our aim is to provide opportunities for our talented sports players to excel and to aspire representative honours where possible; for all pupils to have access to excellent coaching and facilities; to provide competitive inter-school fixtures which challenge our pupils, help them grow in their sport and PERF help them to understand the importance O and value of competitive sport.

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Athletics

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Our aim is to provide a range of supplementary sports and activities which are delivered within the co-curricular clubs and games programme which help to support the athletic development of our pupils. Pupils in sports participate in inter-school competitions.

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Cricket

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Hockey (girls)

Rugby (boys)

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A range of additional sports which ensure all pupils participate in some sporting activity, learning the value of regular exercise for health, friendship and challenge.

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Co-curricular clubs:

Senior Games Programme:

Climbing, dance and tennis.

Includes over 20 activities, including co-ed yoga, squash, pilates, spinning, croquet and racketball.

Rowing

(boys & girls)

Netball

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Football

(boys)

Sport

Number of Teams

Number of Fixtures

Rugby

21

150

Netball

28

225

Football

20

120

Hockey

21

110

Cricket (girls)

16

120

Cricket (boys)

17

119

Rowing (girls)

12

15

Rowing (boys)

12

15

Swimming

6

8

Water Polo

6

12

Athletics and Cross Country

8

11

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Three-pronged approach to sport here: performance for the competitive elite; development where pupils are encouraged to find a sport they love and can play beyond school; engagement to promote wellbeing.

GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE

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Meet the team

sport

Mr Hanson, Director of Sport

Miss Low, Deputy Director of Sport and Director of Hockey

Miss Bird, Director of Netball

Mr Ross, Director of Rugby

Mr White, Director of Cricket

Mr Liversage, Director of Rowing

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Miss Fitzgibbon, Teacher of PE

Mr King, Director of Athletics and Cross Country

Ms Blaikie, Rowing Coach

Mr Leigh, Director of Football

Miss Murphy, Head of Athletic Development

Mr Jackson, Rowing Coach

Miss Luff, Sports Graduate Assistant

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Pupil Profile Prudie ( Year 10)

Prudie is one of our sport and music scholars and is keenly involved in many different areas of co-curricular life at Emanuel. This year, she has represented the school in the under 15 A hockey and netball teams, and performed in the school musical, School of Rock, as part of the orchestra. She is also a member of the symphony orchestra, the senior strings and ‘Roar!’, our contemporary choir. Prudie is currently working towards her Silver DofE. Outside of school, she plays football for AFC Wimbledon and is a member of the England Independent Schools Football training squad

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P u p i l P ro f i l e Adam ( Year 7)

Adam is in Year 7 and holds a sports exhibition.

In addition to playing for the U12 A football and cricket teams this year, he has run for the school cross country team and is a member of the mixed touch rugby club. Away from the sports field, Adam attends drama club and maths enrichment club. Outside of school he is part of the Great Britain taekwondo team.

“I have enjoyed everything about the sport at school this year. Both my cricket coach, Mr Leigh, and my football coach, Mr Harris, have been inspiring and supportive.”

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Drama Drama is at the heart of Emanuel’s vibrant co-curriculum; with eight productions a year covering all year groups, including a whole school musical and two companies that perform at the Edinburgh Fringe. Emanuel pupils have an extraordinary range of opportunities available to them. In total, this year, over 300 pupils have been involved in school productions.

There are 14 different clubs a week covering tech and costume as well as performance skills. Every week, we welcome pupils from local primaries who take part in five-week puppetry skills workshops led by our Lower Sixth pupils.

A number of pupils, past and present, act in commercial projects on stage and in film, including Vanity Fair, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Apple Tree House, Informer, Paw Patrol, Rosie Plays Julie, Matilda and many more productions.

The Drama department is housed in the Fiennes Theatre; a fully equipped, purpose-built performance space with an audience capacity of 120.We also have our own film studio and a larger performance space, the Hampden Hall, which has a capacity of 500 and is used for major productions.

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Shortlisted for the Independent School of the Year Awards 2022 in the Performing Arts category

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Pupils’ creative achievements, notably in art, drama and music, are exceptional.

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Pupil Profile Kit ( Year 7) Kit joined Emanuel in Hill form as a drama scholar and enjoys being a member of drama club. Outside of school, Kit has had a busy and exciting year! He did the campaign for Sky Glass TV, voiced a new character for Paw Patrol, filmed his first role in a period drama for ITV and got to play Helen Mirren’s grandson in the new movie, Golda. Kit has many other exciting projects in the pipeline!

Kit is also involved in a range of other clubs and societies at Emanuel, from house tug of war to Maths enrichment!

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Meet the team

drama

Miss Fearnley, Head of Drama

Miss Graves, Head of Co-curricular Drama

Mr Lancaster, Teacher of Drama

Miss Seaton, Teacher of Drama

Miss Kerstein, Theatre and Events Manager

Miss Gu, Theatre Technician

Mr Norton-Smith, Director in Residence

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Music at Emanuel is exciting, diverse, and unique.The school has an extraordinarily strong musical tradition with a thriving classical and contemporary provision.

Pupils have the opportunity to be involved in rock bands, chamber ensembles, jazz ensembles, guitar groups, percussion groups and DJing, and have the chance to perform regularly in school and outside too.We aim to stretch and challenge the elite musicians in the school but also support and provide lots of opportunities for those at different stages of their musical journey.

The first major concert of the year is ‘Showstoppers’ for all Year 6 and 7. We also take our musicians down the road to the Half Moon in Putney go perform a rock gig, the Ministry of Sound for a club night featuring our DJs, the Clapham Grand for “A Night at the Musicals” concert and St Luke’s Church for our annual carol service.

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It’s a real joy teaching pupils at Emanuel.Their willingness to input their own creative ideas to our sessions makes the learning experience a refreshingly collaborative one PHOEBE D’ABO, PROFESSIONAL DJ AND VISITING MUSIC TEACHER - DJING

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Performances

Showstoppers!

St Cecilia’s Concert A Night at the Movies A Night at the Musicals Ministry of Sound DJ Event Music Production Workshops House Music Competitions Rock Bands at Half Moon, Putney Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral Carol Services Classical Musician of the Year

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Ensembles

Guitar Ensemble Intermediate Strings Senior Strings Rock Bands Intermediate Jazz Senior Jazz Emanuel Singers Schola Cantorum Intermediate Concert Band Senior Concert Band Roar!

Composition Club Music Production Club Percussion Ensemble

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Pupil Profile Emilia ( Year 10)

Emilia joined Emanuel in Hill Form as a Music scholar and has thoroughly enjoyed all the opportunities for her to develop her passion in this subject. Emilia plays the harp and sings, and is involved in a number of different groups and choirs during the week. She is currently working towards her Grade 8 harp and Grade 6 singing exams. Outside of school, Emilia has entered many music festivals and is a member of the NYHO (National Youth Harp Orchestra) playing with lots of other harpists from around the country.

Emilia is also keenly involved in other cocurricular activities and enjoys playing sport at school.

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Meet the team

music

Mr Janz, Director of Music

Miss Cleobury, Assistant Director of Music

Miss Dee,Teacher of Music

Miss Cairns, Teacher of Music

Mr Stevens, Composer in Residence

We also have a team of 26 visiting music teachers who offer lessons in a wide range of instruments

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Clubs & Societies

Our pupils have a wealth of clubs and societies to explore during their free time with a wide range of activities taking place every lunchtime and after school.

Popular activities include media club, dissection club, costume-making club, junior equality club and chess club.

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Clubs & Societies Advanced French Breakfast Club Advanced German Breakfast Club

Hill Form/ Year 7 Enrichment

Ancient Greek Club

Judt Group

Animation Club

Junior Art Club

AQA Further Mathematics Athena Society Box Drum Club Chaplain’s Discussion Group Chess Club Chess Coaching Christian Cake Club Classic Cinema Club Community Service Computer Club Costume & Craft Club Creative Writing Club Cross Country Club Cultural Theory Seminar

Junior Book Club Ju n i o r D e b a t i n g S o c i e t y Junior History Society

Law Society Lower School Lit Quiz Club Lower School Lit Society Maths Enrichment Club Media Club Philosophy Club Physics Olympiad Politics ‘Car tel’ Psychotronic Book Club Robot Club Senior Book Club

Dance Club

Senior Debating Society

Drama Club

Swimming

Emanuel Equality Club Filmmaking Club Gardening Club GCSE Writing Workshop Geo Extension Hans Woyda Club 24 | Co-curricular Life

H a r r y Po t t e r C l u b

Ta b l e Te n n i s Talking Circle T h e a t r e Te c h C l u b

Touch Rugby UKMT Team Challenge

Water Polo World Film Club

Duke of Edinburgh

The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme is immensely popular at Emanuel with 95% of Year 9 pupils taking the Bronze award and 70% of Year 10 pupils going on to take the Silver award Pupils relish the opportunity to develop skills, volunteer in the local community and throw themselves into the expedition.

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