College Caters for Careers Choices

The inaugural Immanuel College Careers Fair took place on the evening of Wednesday 6th March, with over 250 people in attendance. The aims of the Fair were to inspire our Year 11 and Year 12 students in their career choices, ignite interest in particular fields of work and to introduce students to mentors and routes to obtaining work experience.

The students and their parents had the opportunity to receive advice from professionals from 35 organisations, representing more than 20 ...

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Distinguished Display of Dancing Diversity

The Immanuel College ‘Just Dance’ Show took place on Thursday 31st January. Students from the Sixth Form came together to help organise the evening and choreograph dances for the show whilst girls from Years 7 – 10 performed in a variety of class, group and individual dances. All the girls worked extremely hard leading up to the show and their commitment and dedication were demonstrated throughout this very successful evening, where pupils not only worked towards putting on a fantastic ...

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Enterprising Sixth Formers

Want to jam and relax? Then look out for Jamalax! The Immanuel College Young Enterprise team, Jamalax, took part on 12th March in the regional Young Enterprise Competition at St.Helen’s School.

They had to produce a report and also present in front of several other teams and a panel of judges including business leaders from companies such as General Electric and KPMG. Unfortunately, they narrowly missed getting into the final but, despite this, they are proving to be very ...

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Immanuel Pupils Make The Maccabi Games Grade

Seventeen Immanuel College pupils will take part in the JCC Maccabi Games in Orange County, U.S.A. this summer as part of the 80-strong Team GB delegation. This will be the first time for many of the athletes that they will have taken part in an international competition and it will be an opportunity for them to announce their talents to the Jewish sporting world as Maccabi stars of the future.

Playing in the U14 boys’ football team will ...

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Immanuel Targets Success In Area Finals

Following its win in the regional heat of the Bank of England and The Times Target 2.0 Interest Rate Challenge in November, where the team impressed the judges to triumph over competitor schools including Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys, Watford Grammar and St. Albans School, the Immanuel College team (Joshua Cainer, Theo Mandel, James Segal and Sammy Hakimian) recently competed in the Area Finals of this highly prestigious competition along with the other 43 winning teams from ...

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Jewniversity Challenge

850 questions, 36 rounds, 27 J-Soc teams and 4 regional heats to answer 1 question: Who will be the first ever Jewniversity Challenge champions? The Oxford team, featuring recent Immaunel alumnus Darren Vanning, was the competition favourites and highest scoring team from the heats.

With 20 questions to go of a keenly-fought final which saw the teams from City of London, Birmingham and Newcastle reel in the rampant Oxford team, the crown was anyone’s to take. But there was just ...

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Million Dollar Maths

Sixteen Year 10 pupils attended the “Maths in Action Conference” in London on 5th March. They had the opportunity to watch eminent mathematicians present interesting and intriguing ideas, whilst conveying their passion for Mathematics. The talks involved audience participation, with Oriel Shapira (Year 10) featuring on stage in a demonstration of musical harmonics (see photo). Subjects were diverse and included guitars, Facebook and postmen.  Dr Hugh Hunt from Cambridge University gave a fascinating presentation about bouncing and spinning objects. In ...

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Musical Michael Inspires Immanuel

Music pupils were thrilled to welcome one of the UK’s most sought-after composers, Michael Price, to the College on 6th March. Michael, an award-winning composer, is well-known for his music scores for BBC’s Sherlock drama and for films including Lord of the Rings and Horrid Henry: The Movie. Michael has recently won a Royal Television Society Award and BAFTA and two EMMY nominations for the Sherlock series.

Michael talked about how he got involved in the music business, who ...

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No Cross Words In Middle School Maths Team

On 12th March, Dexter Goodkind (Year 8), Alex Root (Year 8), Shane Melnick (Year 9) and Daniel Schindler (Year 9) represented Immanuel College in the Regional Final of the UKMT Team Mathematics Competition.  The event, held at Ashlyn’s School in Berkhamsted, was contested by 24 teams from schools across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and London.  The competition consisted of four 45 minute rounds, including general questions, a crossnumber and two relays.  Strategy was important throughout and effective teamwork was key. 

Immanuel ...

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On Yer Bike

Sky Sports Living for Sport programme, which the P.E. Department has signed up to this year, gives schools the opportunity to reward students who have shown a positive attitude or excellence in sport with the chance to try a new sport. This year the College was lucky enough to have Mike Mullen (former X games BMX half pipe winner) come in to give the pupils a chance to try out the skills needed to be a BMX champion. Year 7 ...

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Pit-Stops, Promenades And Parades In Paris

The annual Paris Trip, always a highlight of the academic year for Year 8, took place Monday 4th - Thursday 7th March. 65 pupils and 7 members of staff boarded the magnificent double-decker coach at 7 a.m. on departure day, only to alight on the hard shoulder of the M20 an hour-and-a-half later as the coach irreparably broke down. After an unscheduled 4-hour pit-stop at Maidstone Services, where on the grassy section outside the café the group davened morning tefillah, ...

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Splendid Girls Sing With Gusto

The annual Girls’ Singing Concert took place on Tuesday 26th February with a record number of girls taking part. The girls performed songs from musical theatre,  including ‘Good Morning Baltimore’ from Hairspray sung by Alan Bain (Year 8), ‘Electricity’ from Billy Elliot sung by Amber Marks (Year 7), ‘What did I love for’ from A Chorus Line sung by Shira Abkin (Year 12) and ‘Quiet’ from Matilda sung by Jessica Cooper (Year 8). Popular music also featured with Lauren Smith (Year ...

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Teacher's Ten

This edition’s Teacher’s Ten have been answered by Mr Alex Coope, Teacher of History, Politics and Ethics.

1. What is the best thing that has happened to you this week?

It's only Thursday: a very premature question. I have great hopes for the morrow.

2. If Hollywood were to make a film of your life, who would play you?

Yoda, I fear.

3. What do you like best about working at Immanuel College? The chance to be of service.

4. What ...

Year 10's Alan Senitt Senators

The Alan Senitt Community Leadership Programme is specifically aimed at Year 10 pupils of all faiths. Along with Immanuel College, the other schools involved in this project are Watford Grammar School for Boys, Yavneh College, Nower Hill and Guru Nanak (a Sikh school). This year, Danielle Shohet, Taryn Melnick, Gaby Bush, Rachel Katz, Louis Gertler, Bertie Green, Raphael Middleburgh, Daniel Hardoon, Ben Geller and Jacob Hirschovitz have represented the College in this important and prestigious event.

Those participating in the ...

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Immanuel Siddur is Good News

Immanuel College held a special assembly on Friday 1st March to present a new Immanuel College siddur to the Year 7-9 pupils. The siddur, which has been specifically designed for Immanuel College, includes specific coloured pages to highlight different aspects of davening, FAQ sections and explanations of the tefillot. The creation of the siddur is the result of a highly successful series of tefilla enrichment lessons given last academic year by the Immanuel College Beit HaMidrash and has been generously ...

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