The Nottingham Emmanuel School

The Nottingham Emmanuel School is located near the banks of the river Trent in West Bridgford on Gresham Park Road. It is next to the former Great Central Main Line in the borough of Rushcliffe but is administered by Nottingham LEA.

Admissions

The Nottingham Emmanuel School is a Church of England Voluntary Aided school and seeks to deliver an education in a "stimulating, learning environment which recognises the central importance of each individual and his or her relationship with others."

As a community, Emmanuel seek to put Christian principles into practice by providing a supportive environment, working with parents, their partner schools and the wider community. The school aims to "recognise each individual's God-given talents and encourage students' aspirations and create opportunities for them to become confident, responsible adults." The school motto is "Together to learn, to grow, to serve."

The Nottingham Emmanuel School is a partnership between the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Board of Education and the City of Nottingham Children's Services.

History

The School began in September 2002 and has been using the old Wilford Meadows building until the arrival of its completed 'new build' in late 2008. The first 6th-form students began their A-Levels in September 2007.

In 2000 a project group was established to plan a programme of consultation, including a range of feasibility studies. There was very strong support from parents for the development of another Church school and this proposal was also supported nationally through the recommendations made in the Dearing Report for new Church Aided Schools to be established. In 2001 a temporary Governing body was convened to set up the School.^{[citation needed]}

The Nottingham Emmanuel School was so named because it reflects faith in God. The Governors realised that a specifically Christian spiritual ethos in which other faith traditions were hosted within an Anglican framework was crucial to the overall purpose. This is reflected in the School's Admission Policy.

The School celebrated its official opening in 2002 with 180 students and is now full in Years 7,8, 9, 10 and 11. In September 2006 the school welcomed their fifth year of intake and this meant students for the first time were entered for public examinations at Key Stage 4. The school has a planned full size of 1150 students, including the Sixth Form in 2008/9.

Previous schools

The true origins of the school, in a convoluted and chequered history, start with the Mundella Grammar School, on Colygate Road in the Meadows, which opened in 1899. The school's name came from Anthony John Mundella, a Liberal MP for Sheffield, and Sheffield Brightside. During the war, from September 1939-March 1940, the school was evacuated to Stamford, Lincolnshire. This became a comprehensive in the 1970s, keeping its former name. These school building s were demolished in 1985. The school transferred to the Rowland Green Comprehensive School, which became the Wilford Meadows School. Due to its low results, this school was closed, and has now re-opened as the Nottingham Emmanuel School.

Academic performance

The school gets average results for Nottingham, but well under the England average, at GCSE. Nottingham LEA gets the lowest results in the East Midlands.

Uniform

The uniform colour was purple with a purple and gold logo and consisted of a jumper and polo shirt, and a fleece, with black trousers and black shoes. Now the uniform is a white shirt, black blazer with the new 'NES' logo, and a tie which has two stripes to representative of the students' houses. Variations in uniform are not permitted.

A change in uniform is being enforced for the year sevens of 2008/9. However there will be a period of transition involving voluntary use of the new uniforms for the upper years.

Headteachers

• Mr. D. King (2002-2004)
• Mr. D. Hermitt (Acting head 2004 - End 2004)
• Mrs. C. Fearria (2005 - Present)

Administration

• Mrs. C.A. Fearria: Headteacher
• Mr. B. Westgate: Assistant Headteacher
• Mrs. B. Bracha: Assistant Headteacher
• Mr. M.E. Donnelly: Deputy Headteacher
• Mr. A. Smith: Deputy Headteacher
• Mrs. J. Green: Deputy Headteacher
• Mrs. M. Zipser: Headteacher's Personal Assistant

Alumni

Mundella Grammar School

• Edwin Brown CBE, President of the National Association of Nursery and Family Care from 1984-88
• Prof Jonathan Chambers, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Nottingham from 1958-64
• Peter Hackett OBE, Principal of the Camborne School of Mines from 1970-94, and President of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy from 1989-90
• Prof Raymond Kirk, Professor of Surgery at University College London Medical School since 2004, and President of the Hunterian Society from 1995-6, and of the Medical Society of London from 1988-9
• John Mackay, Chairman of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference from 1970-1
• Edward Middleditch, artist
• Cecil Roberts, novelist
• John Savage, Chairman and Managing Director of Boots from 1954-61
• Doug Scott, mountaineer
• Fred Simpson, Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne from 1935-9
• Peter Stephens, Editor of the News of the World from 1974-5
• David Pleat, football player, manager and commentator
• Stephen Lowe, playwright

External links

• EduBase
• Former Mundella School