Immanuel College News Archive - 2008-2009
Immanuel College Pupils Rise to the Challenge of IGCSE
Thursday, 27th August 2009
131 of the 721 GCSE examinations sat at Immanuel College this summer were awarded an A* grade and 206 an A grade, a total of 47% of all entries. The percentage of passes at Grades C to A* was 89%. Amongst the strongest performances were those of Joel Fisher,... more
Immanuel College Students Set New Record
Thursday, 20th August 2009
67% of all Advanced Level examinations sat by Immanuel College sixth-form students this summer were passed at Grade A, the highest proportion in the school’s history. The proportion of A Level examinations passed at grades A or B, required in order to secure admission to sought-after courses at the most... more
Immanuel College Students Set New A Level Record
Thursday, 20th August 2009
67% of all Advanced Level examinations sat by Immanuel College sixth-form students this summer were passed at Grade A, the highest proportion in the school’s history. The proportion of A Level examinations passed at grades A or B, required in order to secure admission to sought-after courses at the most... more
Art and Photography Award Winners 2009
Thursday, 9th July 2009
Olivia Baker, aged 18, was awarded the Eli and Sonia Gottlieb Trophy, which celebrates excellence in Art at the school's annual Art Department Exhibition. Olivia takes up a place on the Foundation Course at the London College of Fashion this autumn. For the first time, the Gottlieb Foundation included... more
Year 10 Lady Jakobovits Visit
Wednesday, 8th July 2009
Year 10 Immanuel College pupils, were today privileged to have Lady Jakobovits, the widow of the late Chief Rabbi Lord Jakobovits, the founder of the College, come and speak about her experiences in World War II. The account of her family’s escape from Paris before the German bombing assault began... more
GCSE, AS and A Level Art and AS Level Photography Exhibition
Tuesday, 7th July 2009
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Maccabi Boys Tennis Tournament results
Tuesday, 7th July 2009
Immanuel College dominated the Year 8 Maccabi Tennis Final when Oliver Donne and Sam Lipton faced Jack Reece (who played up a year group) and Joshua Foley-Comer. Jack and Joshua took the title of Boys Tennis Maccabi Champions. The year 10s also registered a victory with Sam Rosenberg... more
ECDL Successes
Friday, 3rd July 2009
The following Upper School pupils have completed the 7-module ECDL programme: Amos Wittenberg Yr 11 Harry Levene Yr 10 Joshua Silverblatt Yr 10 Eitan Lovat... more
Immanuel College Book Award - Winner
Wednesday, 1st July 2009
We are pleased to announce the results of the Immanuel Collge Book Award 2009: In first place, "The Book Thief", nominated by Jonatan Benarroch and Roey Erez of 9NGA, which received twice as many votes as the runner up. Second Place - "Alone on a Wide Wide Sea" Third Place... more
Year 7 Cricket Team Win Watford District B League
Wednesday, 17th June 2009
The Immanuel College Year 7 Cricket team showed outstanding form throughout the season wining all four of their league matches and one friendly to win the Watford District B league. They won all their matches in convincing fashion beating the larger comprehensive schools of Bushey Meads, Bushey Hall, Westfield... more
Immanuel College - A 'Good Schools Guide' Winner
Thursday, 11th June 2009
Immanuel College has won the 2009 Good Schools Guide ‘A’ Level Award for Boys taking Modern Hebrew at ‘A’ level at an English School. The Good Schools Guide makes these awards on the basis of the data underlying schools’ post-16 performance table results for the three years 2006, 2007... more
Time to 'Crack the Code'
Tuesday, 9th June 2009
The Immanuel College Science department hosted Year 5 of the Independent Jewish Day School to a ‘crack the code’ Science morning. In the Biology lab, the pupils used our powerful microscopes to look at tiny pond life and discover the difference between hair colour types and in the Chemistry lab,... more
Sports Day Successes
Thursday, 4th June 2009
Sports Day this year took place on Thursday 4th June at Barnet Copthall Stadium. All pupils in Years 7-10 had the chance to compete in various sports, including: relay, high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin and 100m, 200m, 400m, and 800m races. Final individual scores from... more
Immanuel Beit Midrash Programme - New for September 2009
Tuesday, 19th May 2009
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Announcement of 2009/10 Head Prefect Team
Thursday, 14th May 2009
We are delighted to announce this years Head Prefect Team: Head Boy: David Gee Deputy Head Boys: Alexander Seftel and Samuel Kennard Head Girl: Joanna Tamman Deputy Head Girls: Natasha Rosenfeld and Hannah Skolnick We wish them an excellent term of office. ... more
Announcement of 2009/10 Head Prefect Team
Thursday, 14th May 2009
We are delighted to announce this years Head Prefect Team: Head Boy: David Gee Deputy Head Boys: Alexander Seftel and Samuel Kennard Head Girl: Joanna Tamman Deputy Head Girls: Natasha Rosenfeld and Hannah Skolnick We wish them an excellent term of office. ... more
Rounders Success for Year 7 & 8 Girls
Wednesday, 13th May 2009
The Immanuel College Girls’ Rounders Club has thrived this year, with as many as 45 girls attending lunchtime practices. Earlier this week, girls from Years 7 and 8 participated in the annual Maccabi Rounders Tournament, held at the JFS School. Immanuel’s Year 8 team, captained by Katy David, took third... more
Rounders Success for Year 7 & 8 Girls
Wednesday, 13th May 2009
The Immanuel College Girls’ Rounders Club has thrived this year, with as many as 45 girls attending lunchtime practices. Earlier this week, girls from Years 7 and 8 participated in the annual Maccabi Rounders Tournament, held at the JFS School. Immanuel’s Year 8 team, captained by Katy David,... more
Immanuel College Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
Thursday, 7th May 2009
On Thurday 7th May, Immanuel College celebrated its 18th Birthday with a Gala Dinner at St. John’s Wood Synagogue. The guest speakers were The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, Lady Amile Jakobovits, and Dr. Rafael Beyar, Director of the Rambam Hospital, Haifa. The Dinner celebrated the achievements of Immanuel College... more
Immanuel College Celebrates its 18th Birthday
Thursday, 7th May 2009
On Thurday 7th May, Immanuel College celebrated its 18th Birthday with a Gala Dinner at St. John’s Wood Synagogue. The guest speakers were The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, Lady Amile Jakobovits, and Dr. Rafael Beyar, Director of the Rambam Hospital, Haifa. The Dinner celebrated the achievements of Immanuel College... more
Immanuel College Book Award - Short List
Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Is there a book on the shortlist that you could not put down? If so, recommend it to a friend. Here is a reminder of the shortlist: 1.Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo Nominated by Nina Lipman and Rosie Collins 7CS and Darryl Bernstein 10LR 2.H.I.V.E: Higher... more
Yom Hazikaron
Tuesday, 28th April 2009
This week, on Tuesday, we commemorated the lives of Israel’s soldiers who died defending the State of Israel over the past 61 years. Immanuel College pupils commemorated their bravery in a moving assembly with guest speakers from Our Soldiers: Sgt Benjamin Anthony, aged 29, who served in the Israel Defence... more
Year 7 & 8 Entertain members at Jewish Care's Sam Beckman Centre
Tuesday, 28th April 2009
Eleven students from years 7 and 8 entertained members of the Sam Beckman Day Centre run by Jewish Care in Hendon with a varied programme of song, guitar, piano, saxophone and poetry recitals. It was delightful to see the rapport between young and old as members joined in the... more
Musical Successes
Thursday, 23rd April 2009
Raz Benson a Year 9 pupil at Immanuel College has been selected to play in the Rotary “Youth Makes Music” Concert at the Royal Festival Hall this week. “Youth Makes Music” is the biennial concert, organised by Rotary District 1130, for talented young musicians across London. All of... more
Yom Hashoah Ceremony
Tuesday, 21st April 2009
On Tuesday, it was Yom HaShoah, a day of remembering and commemorating the lives of those who were murdered in the Holocaust. Usually, one tries to focus on the huge number of victims (6 million); however, realising that such a figure is far too large for anyone to comprehend easily,... more
A clean Sweep for Immanuel College in the Maccabi Badminton Tournaments
Wednesday, 25th March 2009
There was a clean sweep of medals for the Immanuel College Badminton team at the Maccabi Tournament this week, when every member of the team received at least one medal. All of our doubles teams achieved one of the top three positions, and four out of the six pairs... more
A Siyyum at Immanuel College
Wednesday, 25th March 2009
Year 10 boys from Immanuel College this week celebrated the completion of their learning of the Halachot of Aveilut at a Siyyum at school. As part of their GCSE Jewish Studies Syllabus, Immanuel College Year 10 boys have been studying Ikkrei Emunah, learning about Briyat Ha’olam, the Neshama and Olam... more
Victory for Year 10 Basketball Team
Tuesday, 17th March 2009
Under Adam Schwartz’s able captaincy, Immanuel College’s Year 10 basketball team won all five of the matches it played in the first division of the local Watford and District Schools’ ‘B’ League and won the championship. Matches were played against Bushey Meads, Bushey Hall, St. Joan of Arc, Rickmansworth and... more
Graeme Robertson Opens Immanuel’s New Photography Suite
Tuesday, 17th March 2009
Immanuel College marked the opening of its new photography suite on 17th March by inviting Graeme Robertson, a senior photographer on “The Guardian” newspaper, to share his passion for photography with the Sixth Form. Mr Robertson, the winner of ten major photographic awards in the past ten years, spoke of... more
Purim Fun at Immanuel
Tuesday, 10th March 2009
Purim 2009, which fell on a school day for the first time for several years, was celebrated with great energy and style. Pupils and teachers indulged their freedom to adopt a new identity for the day in varied ways. Two Year 9 pupils, Aaron Lester and Sammy Hakimian, carried... more
Science Museum's Israel Day of Science
Thursday, 5th March 2009
Mr Denby, Head of Science at Immanuel, reports that our students were excited by the outstandingly high standard of the lectures, particularly those given by Professor Eilam Gross of the Weizmann Institute on “The Large Hadron Collider – In Search of the Good Particle” and Dr Amir Amedi of the... more
Snow Disrupts School Week
Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Snow blizzards caused havoc last week for Immanuel College. With many pupils unable to get to school and icy conditions on the campus, the school was forced to shut for several days. The snow, however, was no barrier to having fun and many pupils took advantage of the thick blanket... more
Pupils Discuss Community Issues
Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Dozens of students from four local schools came together last week to discuss and debate important community issues. Fourteen and 15 year-old year ten pupils from Immanuel College, Nower Hill and Guru Nanak school met with contemporaries at Watford Grammar School for Boys on Thursday. During a series... more
Holocaust Memorial Day
Friday, 23rd January 2009
Holocaust Memorial Day was commemorated at Immanuel College with sessions led by the school’s sixth form. The lower sixth, who have recently returned from an 8-day visit to Poland, shared their thoughts, feelings and emotions with pupils in the first five years of the school. They used the aims of... more
Year 8 Independent Learning Projects
Thursday, 22nd January 2009
‘Are iPods ruining the world?’ and ‘How would the world be different if 9/11 hadn’t happened?’ are just two of the many questions chosen for exploration by Year 8 pupils taking part in the Independent Learning Project at Immanuel College. Head of PSHE, Ms Laurel Endelman told me... more
Year 8 Girls’ Drumming Workshop
Monday, 19th January 2009
Year 8 girls had a rare treat on Monday when they took part in a drumming workshop. In the course of the day, the girls played a great number of percussion instruments. The classes were split into groups of four or five and each group was asked to compose its... more
Immanuel Alumni volunteer on IDF bases
Thursday, 15th January 2009
British teenagers are working on eight army bases across Israel after being asked to help by the IDF in light of the current situation in Gaza. Last year’s Head Girl of Immanuel College, Dodie Levene, who is currently on her gap year at Midreshet Lindenbaum (Brovender's), volunteered for the Israel... more
'Mishna and Milk' and Daily Daf Yomi
Tuesday, 13th January 2009
The Torah Mitzion Kollel, based at Immanuel College, held a celebratory siyum on completion of Masechet Sukah. “Mishnah and Milk” is held every morning break when pupils come to the Kollel to learn a Mishna or two whilst enjoying a bowl of cereal. The next Masechet that will be learnt... more
Chanukah Concert
Tuesday, 16th December 2008
This year’s Chanukah Concert was memorable for its diversity and quality. Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” rubbed shoulders with Thomas Morley’s “Now is the month of Maying”, and ACDC’s “Highway to Hell” with Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. Among the many accomplished performances of the evening were Omer Shneider’s... more
Zedakah Round-Up
Monday, 15th December 2008
In addition to raising funds for Sierra Leone Action Relief and local Jewish families in need, Shevet Achim, the pupils’ charity committee, launched its ‘Ten a Term’ project by which every form group chose a charity and decided how each of the pupils in the form would raise £10 for... more
Sports Round-Up
Thursday, 11th December 2008
Immanuel has gained its best set of football results by far in recent history this term. Teams in Years 7 to 11 have played 22 matches, winning 9, losing 9 and drawing 4. The Year 10 boys’ football XI won all but its final fixture, when a narrow defeat denied... more
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Monday, 8th December 2008
This term’s drama production, “The Happiest Days of Your Life”, banished the gloom of a damp and cold November. The play, set directly after the Second World War, tells of the efforts of the bewildered Head Master of Hilary Hall, (played imposingly after due research of the role by... more
Chanukah Art Workshops
Tuesday, 2nd December 2008
Today, year 6 pupils from Kerem School took part in a Chanukah Art Workshop at Immanuel College. The children were taught new art techniques such as paper cutting using a craft knife, polystyrene tile printing of Chanukah images onto various surfaces using a wide range of colours, and collage; ripping,... more
Dance Show Rocks Around the Clock!
Monday, 1st December 2008
Brightly coloured tutu’s and flowery pink tights were the order of the evening as girls in years 7, 8 and 9 took part in the Annual Dance Show, “Rock around the Clock”. The show, now in it’s eighth was successful in raising £800 for the ‘Little Friends’ Orphanage in... more
Senior Prize Day
Thursday, 27th November 2008
The guest at the Senior Prize Giving at Immanuel College this year was Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive of NESTA, The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. With assets under management of £400 million, NESTA is the largest single endowment in the UK exclusively dedicated to fostering innovation.... more
Harry Boyne 8SFR - Outstanding achievement in IT
Wednesday, 26th November 2008
Harry Boyne, at the age of 11 years and 10 months possesses the distinction of being the youngest Immanuel College pupil to pass all 7 modules that comprise the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) qualification. The qualification demands a minimum pass rate in each module of 75% and Harry... more
Year 7 Siyyum – Celebrating Hebrew Reading Progress
Tuesday, 18th November 2008
This week, a small group of year seven boys who arrived at Immanuel College in September unable to read Hebrew celebrated their progress in Hebrew reading at a siyyum with their teacher, Mrs Deborah Unsdorfer. Rabbi David Riffkin, Director of Judaism, and Rabbi Reuven Margrett from the JS department participated... more
Year 7 Chaggigat Siddur
Monday, 17th November 2008
Year 7 pupils received their school siddur yesterday from Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen at their Chaggigat Siddur - a celebratory ceremony. ... more
Junior Prize Day
Sunday, 9th November 2008
The guest of honour at this year’s Immanuel College’s Junior Prize Giving was Mel Cook, an acclaimed actress and director. Inspired at the age of seven to go into acting, Ms Cook has since established a successful career. She has just directed a sell-out run of William Saroyan’s The... more
Double Olympic gold medalist Steve Williams visits Immanuel College
Thursday, 6th November 2008
Double Olympic Gold Winner and four-times World Champion Steve Williams, visited Immanuel College today, Thursday 6th November, to present awards to pupils at the school’s annual sports assembly. On the day daubed ‘Super Saturday’ by the media, the 32-year-old, along with his crew mates in the men’s coxless four won... more
Launch of Social Action Projects
Wednesday, 5th November 2008
Immanuel College launched its social action projects for the coming year at a special assembly this week. Against the backdrop of a bold audio-visual presentation urging pupils to perfect the world, “SOCIAL ACTION: it’s your turn to change the world – SO ACT”, Rabbi David Riffkin, Director of Judaism, told... more
Succah Building Competition
Wednesday, 8th October 2008
The school Kollel recently held a Succah Building competition for Year 7 and 8 pupils. The winners, announced today are as follows: Year 7 first place are Zoe Isaac, Romi Listenberg, Hannah Mendall and Eve Navias with their three walled Succah. Year 8 had two groups who were... more
Speakers to the 6th Form - September 2008
Tuesday, 30th September 2008
James Clappison, MP Rather than giving a long speech on a particular topic, James Clappison MP immediately welcomed questions on any subject, whether political parties, worldwide conflicts or economic crises. This interesting session was a chance for 6th form students to hear the views of an informed politician on... more
Art and Design GCSE students amongst highest achievers in country
Thursday, 25th September 2008
Immanuel students Shoshana Layman, Shani Joel, David Gee, Gabriel Loftus, Emily Ross, Joanna Tamman, Zoe Budwig, Nicole Dousie and Natalie Basrawy, were amongst the highest achieving students in GCSE Art and Design according to Edexcel, the UK’s largest awarding body. The nine students sat the GCSE Art and Design... more
Walking to give support for One Family
Thursday, 18th September 2008
On September 18, more than 500 pupils and staff from Immanuel College in Bushey participated in a 10-mile (16-km) walk to raise funds for OneFamily. The walk, through park and woodland, which started and finished in Cassiobury Park, Watford, raised nearly £11,200 to support families whose lives have been shattered... more
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