Emmett
Emmett delivers all tutoring at The Newsroom.
His classes weave together current events, Politics, Economics, History, Religion, and Media Literacy.
Emmett teaches these classes in a school near Brighton, UK. The idea of The Newsroom is to bring his classes online and make them available to young people wherever they are.
Before teaching, Emmett worked in refugee camps and other humanitarian crisis settings for the United Nations and charities, including years living and working in Haiti, DR Congo, Jordan, and Nepal.
For the last four years, Emmett has been a teacher at the only Montessori secondary school in the UK.
For more on this work and the Montessori approach to education, see below.
Emmett's first career
How Emmett tutors and mentors is a function of his entire working life.
He started his career at Deloitte Consulting in London. At 26, he scandalised his parents by quitting that job in the City and becoming a humanitarian aid worker. He spent years supporting survivors of natural disasters and conflict, working for charities and the United Nations in refugee camps and health care settings in Haiti, DR Congo, Nepal and Jordan.
Emmett worked for the Gates Foundation, after which, for three years he was the Executive Director of a charity in New York focused on mental health, burnout and wellbeing for humanitarian aid workers around the world.
Then, after moving to Brighton to start a family, he studied the Montessori approach to education and started working with young people at The Montessori Place.
Emmett now works in a non-traditional school setting and loves it. However, he also loved his time in traditional education. He has a degree in Theology from Oxford University and a Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He learned Economics first at the LSE Summer School, then went on to be a teaching assistant in the Economics department at Columbia University.
Emmett is DBS certified.
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The Montessori Approach
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Since 2020, Emmett has been teaching Economics A-Level as well as news, political history, and humanities classes at The Montessori Place in Brighton, the only school in the UK that enables young people to stay in a Montessori environment all the way from nursery to finishing A-Levels at 18.
In 2025, the school received an Ofsted report and was rated as Outstanding in every category of assessment. The full report is available here.
Montessori education prioritises cradling and supporting an intellectual curiosity that lasts well beyond school into adult life.
For those who have heard of Montessori education, it is almost always associated with nursery and very young children. So it might be surprising that there are schools, guides, and tutors who use this philosophy and pedagogical approach all the way through to when students take A-Levels, move on to university, or enter the working world.
The Montessori approach to education means re-imagining the rigid standardisation of many traditional schools. Working with teenagers using Montessori principles involves observing the unique characteristics, tendencies, natural talents, and abilities of each young person, then adjusting a program of work to suit that one unique person.
Teenagers have innate curiosity, and working with a Montessori guide, they can be supported to pursue an active interest in world events, economics, history, politics... anything.
Offering you, the student, a range of options for what to explore, and being guided by your choices and preferences, we plot a path through subjects in ways that are co-created specifically by and for you. This way of learning sparks a different level of curiosity, debate, and deeper learning.
To hear it in their own words, read testimonials from graduates of The Newsroom.
The Newsroom Team
Emmett provides all tutoring sessions at The Newsroom.
Behind him, there is a team of people who help make Emmett's tutoring successful. These young adults have been collaborative partners in creating The Newsroom.
The team of young people contributed to the design and built the website, working in collaboration with Emmett and a professional website designer.
The young people also advised in depth on what courses will be of most interest and most use to teenagers. They also have a continuing role to feed into creating the agenda for The Newsroom's Weekly News class. Part of their role is to keep Emmett informed about the news stories that are not on main stream media, and stories or issues that simply do not show up in the online feed and TV News diet of a middle-aged man. There are some news stories the team sees and understands first, and that keeps the subjects we discuss in our Weekly News class relevant for young people's lives.
Their role also includes helping with the logistics of managing group discussions online, ensuring we get the tech and the student experience right. So if, as a student, you can't find the link to the class or you are having tech issues, even if Emmett has already started teaching a class with others and can't answer a distress email, there is someone in the team available to help you get access.
Valuing the contribution and insight of young people is key to how we work as a team, and to how Emmett approaches tutoring and business.
Rudy
Rudy studied economics and politics with Emmett for three years and has helped create The Newsroom business and website. Set to study economics at university in 2026, he has a strong interest in the hows and whys of the political, economic, and philosophical world. Currently in his gap year, he works on The Newsroom from somewhere across the world each week.
Clara
Clara recently graduated from The Montessori Place school and is studying her Foundation Year at Art School in Brighton.
During her time at the school, Clara succeeded in getting excellent grades in A-Level Art, English Literature and History, and earning a qualification in film-making by making a documentary about the school, while simultaneously growing into a rock at the centre of the school community.
Clara was twice Producer and Director of the annual school musical, which the young people organise, produce, and deliver alone without the teaching staff. This involves coordinating a team of over 50 young people through rehearsals, setting up music and microphones, designing and building their own sets, and paying for it themselves through fundraising.
Clara is the person friends come to for solace, and adults go to for advice.