Academic Life
Emanuel caters for pupils from age ten to eighteen, providing education from its mini-prep group, the Hill Form, right through to Sixth Form. The Hill Form acts as a halfway house between primary and secondary education, with around 20 pupils in any one year, who leave primary education a year early (at the end of Year 5) to continue into Year Six in the Lower School at Emanuel. Pupils then follow through to Year Seven as usual.
The Sixth Form caters for around 170 pupils across both the Lower and Upper Sixth, who work together as a year group. Entry to the Sixth Form is dependent on gaining good grades at GCSE (though external entry is based on performance in entrance exams at 11+, 13+ and 16+) and entry to the Upper Sixth is conditional on good AS grades.
Students continue onto university, drama, music or art college upon departing the school. Pupils take GCSE, AS and A-Level exams. The full list of subjects is:
Art, Biology, Business Studies (from GCSE), Chemistry, Classical Civilisation (from Year 9), Design & Technology, Drama (to GCSE), Economics (from AS-Level), English, French, Geography, German, Government & Politics (from AS-Level), History, Latin, Mathematics, Further Mathematics (at A-Level), Music, Physical Education (to GCSE), Physics, Psychology (from AS-Level), Religious Studies, Spanish, Sports Science (from AS-Level), Theatre Studies (from AS-Level)
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