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INTRODUCTION
Since our foundation in 1990 as a City Technology College, Emmanuel has grown
into a College of 1250 students, aged between 11 and 19 and we have almost 100
staff working on our purpose-built site in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
Our boys and girls come from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds but
predominantly from the inner-city areas within Gateshead and Central and West
Newcastle Upon Tyne. In addition to this social mix, the College is legally obliged to
ensure that the Intake at age 11 is evenly-spread across the ability range. This is
done by students sitting a non-verbal Reasoning Test when they are 10 and the
Intake System selects a normally distributed range of students according to their
results. In simple terms, you cannot ’fail휊 this Test as students come into College
from all parts of the ability curve.
This approach to educational equality of opportunity is very much at one with the
College휊s Biblical Christian ethos, established through our Articles of Association
which states our aim
"To promote and provide for the advancement of education with a broadly based
Christian ethos by means of a City Technology College for the education of both
sexes providing (inter alia) a Christian Religious Education with a daily Christian
Assembly and the teaching of Biblical Values and Morality".
This desire to see the claims of the Bible taught as fundamental to a true
understanding of all that is important in life permeates our whole approach to
education, spiritual and moral development, discipline and high expectations in all
that we do. Nevertheless, it is not a requirement of either staff or students that they
are themselves 'committed practising Christians' but simply that they are happy to
work within such an environment. As a result of this approach, our students come
from a wide range of belief backgrounds including Christians, Muslims, Sikhs,
Agnostics and those who hold no specific beliefs at all. In terms of religion an