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Anybody who has been a pupil at Emanuel School is automatically a member of the Old Emanuel Association.

We hope you enjoy visiting the Old Emanuel (OE) pages for recent news from Emanuel, details of forthcoming events and maybe even spotting your name or picture in the Archives section.

We also have a OE search facility where you can search for and get in touch with old friends. To access the OE search you need to Login

If you would like any further information including how to organise a reunion for your yeargroup or details of how to donate to your School please contact Sarah Fisher, Director of Development on srf@emanuel.org.uk

History

Emanuel is a school with a long and distinguished history.

Emanuel School is one of three schools administered by the United Westminster Schools' Foundation. It came into being by the will of Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre, dated 1594. Unusually the school was coeducational from the very beginning. Lady Dacre wrote that one of the main aims of the Foundation should be for ‘the bringing up of children in virtue and good and laudable arts so that they might better live in time to come by their honest labour'. She initially made provision for twenty students: ten girls and ten boys.

With Lady Dacre's benefaction in 1594, Emanuel Hospital (almshouses and school), as it was first called, began. The children wore long brown tunics, rather similar in cut to those still worn by pupils at Christ's Hospital. Thanks to the interest of Queen Elizabeth I, cousin to Lady Dacre, a charter was drawn up, and the school and almshouses were established on a site at Tothill Fields, Westminster. picture_year_7_17th_sept_expedition_161_400

In 1883, the school sought larger, newer buildings for the children; and the boy boarders, as they all then were, moved to our present buildings on the edge of Wandsworth Common.

In 1994, the school celebrated its 400th anniversary with a visit from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Today the school is fully coeducational, but has grown in size to over 700 students.