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- Tue Mar 08, 2016 1:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Open letter to Old Blues from CH Treasurer and Chairman
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4248
Re: Open letter to Old Blues from CH Treasurer and Chairman
In my view, the acceptance of pupils whose parents can afford to pay the full fee contravenes the Charter. However, the school has to keep going. My point was that sponsors should be urgently and actively sought. I don't know to what extent this is happening, but the presence of a cushion of those ...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 9:40 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: School scarf
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21686
Re: School scarf
My DS bought a school scarf during his first year at CH (2005--6). ISTR he bought it through the tuck shop and it cost £5. It's hand-knitted, and I think a member of staff was making them to order. Of course, that was in the good old days when the tuck shop wasn't run for profit by a faceless big bu...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:22 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Residential assessment?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 55293
Re: Residential assessment?
I'm quite sure there must also be A level students whose Oxbridge applications were unsuccessful! However, I would tend to agree that Oxbridge set the bar particularly high for IB students. I know that when my son was considering his University options Cambridge were asking for 42 points, a score wh...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:28 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Residential assessment?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 55293
Re: Residential assessment?
I can speak from experience on this one, as my eldest studied the IB at a local sixth form college after leaving CH. The IB was new to the college (my son was part of their second intake) and they did a great job of selling the advantages of the course, which they targeted at the brightest students....
- Mon Mar 09, 2015 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Claude Minot Newman
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4256
Re: Claude Minot Newman
My father in law was serving as a medical orderly onboard HMS Exeter when it was torpedoed in the Java Sea in 1942. After surviving for 26 hours in the water while many of his friends drowned around him, he was picked up by the Japanese and spent the rest of the war as a POW, latterly on an island o...
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:40 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Residential assessment?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 55293
Re: Residential assessment?
A very simple answer to the question about the majority at Yr 9 entry being either full-fee payers or from overseas is that this is not the case. Thank you for your reply Howard. Unfortunately it doesn’t answer the question I thought I’d asked (apologies for the garbled phrasing!), which was not &q...
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Residential assessment?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 55293
Re: Residential assessment?
For yr 7 entry for Sept 2015 there were approx. 430 candidate for 85 places. For Yr 9 entry for Sept 2015 there were approx. 120 candidates for 35 places. I’m interested to see that such a high proportion of the available places are now allocated to Year 9 entry. As I recollect, this option was int...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:10 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Residential assessment?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 55293
Re: Residential assessment?
Marcandbec wrote: I have read with interest the comments on this post, I am new to this site and was directed to it by someone who had done some investigations into CH on my behalf. My daughter has just been offered a place, which are delighted about BUT unfortunately we are one of the families who ...
- Thu Dec 04, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Bursary information
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20930
Re: Bursary information
Derryboy wrote: I'm rather concerned to find this post from Jo: And the HM says that it has been good for school morale to have pupils whose parents could have afforded to send them to more expensive schools, but who have positively chosen CH.. What does this mean? I suspect the HM means his own mor...
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:49 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Bursary information
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20930
Re: Bursary information
I was having a clear-out recently and came across the CH prospectus from when we first started to consider the school - about 2002/3 I suppose. At that stage ISTR that the published statistic was 40% of families paying no fees (I'll check this when I get home, if I didn't consign the document to th...
- Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:02 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Bursary information
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20930
Re: Bursary information
Oh, and something else; the school had been running substantially under capacity for some years, so the full fee payers have just taken up that slack and the school is now more or less at full capacity. Just a thought, but the fact that CH had been running under capacity was presumably a deliberate ...
- Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:43 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Bursary information
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20930
Re: Bursary information
Jo said: There are actually more people paying no fees and very low fees than ever before. Really? I was having a clear-out recently and came across the CH prospectus from when we first started to consider the school - about 2002/3 I suppose. At that stage ISTR that the published statistic was 40% o...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:24 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Bursary information
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20930
Re: Bursary information
Eowyn3099 wrote: Just checked the bursary table, this was the new version bursary, my DS is on the system before this. Having said that, as the have removed the table from any obvious location on the website I would be inclined to use it as a very very rough guide! Their own financial statement last...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Dr Martens 1461
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7542
Re: Dr Martens 1461
Jo - When did your lads start going to CH? So parents now have to buy their kid's shoes, and Dr Martens are the recommended style. Since when I wonder? 2005. And yes; as well as DMs we have to provide them with football boots, outdoor trainers, indoor (non-marking) trainers, and slippers... it all ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Dr Martens 1461
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7542
Re: Dr Martens 1461
DMs have certainly been the recommended style of shoe all the time my lads have been at CH, and they used to be stocked by Broadbridges in Horsham while they were the official school outfitters. However they're by no means compulsory, and lots of pupils seem to wear different shoes - with DMs now co...