"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth"
Ecclesiastes
ch12 verse 1
Emmaus School, Staverton near Trowbridge in Wiltshire is a school run on Christian principles. It caters for children from 5 to 16 years of age in what has always been akin to a family atmosphere where love and respect are evident to all who visit the school.
Latest News
Latest Fundraising News
The
school has now begun work fundraising for phase 2 of the building project.
The next phase is far more ambitious and in a way far more important as it will not only provide more accommodation for the growing school roll, but will improve the quality of existing facilities and provide new ones. Ken Pearson will be heading up the fundraising and using his many years of experience to help the school.
School Trip
to Noah's Ark
On
June 18th, the whole school visited Noah's Ark Zoo Farm near Bristol. Noah's Ark
Zoo Farm is a 125,000 visitor/year tourist attraction, just 6 miles out from
Bristol, started in 1998.Noah's Ark Zoo Farm is a spectacular hands-on zoo with
huge indoor adventure playgrounds and the world's longest hedge maze, all on a
genuine working farm! Click
here
to find out more about the day and see some pictures of the animals.
Namibia Ultra Marathon Success
Stuart
Moore, one of the parents at Emmaus, has successfully completed the race to
end all races on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia - one of the most arid and
desolate places on the planet. The aim was to
run 120km in 24 hours.
It makes last year's Three Peaks venture look like a walk in the park, but he did it for the same reason - to raise money to help the school extend and redevelop its premises.
Click here to see more pictures read more about the extraordinary adventure
He raised over £2000 for the school. Stuart's 'MyCharityPage' has now closed, but if you would still like to donate to the Building Fund, send a cheque made payable to 'Emmaus School' to the address at the bottom of the page.
Watch Blue Peter on May 6th as one of the presenters was also taking part.
Back
in the autumn, Class 2 visited Peter Atwill on his boat the Gospel Belle.
Peter - a former Pastor of Union Chapel in Bath - founded Canal Ministries 9 years ago and there are now 7 Canal boats that are used to take the gospel to those who live, work and relax on the waterways of England and Wales. After the visit, the children had the chance to write about their visit - click here to see pictures of the visit and the children's own work for yourself.
On Saturday Jan 24th, Tabi Burgess ran in the Wiltshire County Cross Country finals at Grittleton House School. Despite not feeling well, Tabi ran very fast and came joint second in the county for
Year 7 girls.
There are something like 43 secondary schools in the county so this was a great
achievement.
Tabi has now been selected to represent Wiltshire in the South West of England
Finals on
28th February at Taunton in Somerset. Tabi will run for Wiltshire against
Cornwall, Devon,
Somerset, Avon, Dorset and Gloucester. If she gets in the top 15 she will be
considered
to be national standard (In future years - year 8 upwards - the top 15 run in
the National Finals).
Tabi has recently won two cross-country races representing Emmaus.
On November 20th, she beat 72 other runners to win the West Wiltshire Championships.
Then on November 26th, she came first out of 20 in a race to find the top 10 runners to compete in the County Championships in January. Click here to find out more
Bristol Disabled Christian Fellowship
On December 13th, pupils from the school sang to the DCF meeting at Philip St Church in Bristol. Click here to read one pupil's account of the day.
School Prayer Meetings (always on a Monday)
The new classroom is officially opened.
The building work on the new classroom is now complete and it was officially opened on Monday 24th November.
It was a wonderfully memorable occasion. Click here to read about what went on and see pictures of some of those who were involved.
Three
Peaks Challenge
Many prayers were answered in the wonderful way that the Lord blessed the Three Peaks challenge undertaken by 6 climbers and 1 driver between the 19th and 21st of June. All those involved were kept safe and there wasn't a blister between them; there were no traffic hold ups and the team all got on really well. Best of all, around £6000 was raised towards the building project.
Ben Nevis looked nothing like the picture on the left. The top was shrouded in cloud and the climbers had to contend with snow and a strong wind when they reached the summit. To read more about their adventures and to see some pictures, click here
Building Project
With the first phase of the redevelopment now complete, the next challenge involves the remodelling of the hall with an extension to the west side, where the mobile resides at the moment. Read more...
Contact Information
- Telephone - during school hours
- 01225 782684
- Postal address
- School Lane, Staverton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 6NZ
- Click here for a map of where we are
- General Information:
info@emmaus-school.org.uk
Webmaster: andrewstone@tiscali.co.uk