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- Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
- Replies: 53
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Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Trying to digest the following (sample few paragraphs) from an article in today’s Telegraph: ‘Pupils at one of Britain’s oldest schools are to be taught about “white privilege”, as it says that no progress can be made from “within a comfort zone”. Students as well as teachers at Christ’s Hospital, a...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Nell Todd painting for sale
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7895
Re: Nell Todd painting for sale
‘Recollections may vary’
I am sorry others didn’t share my experience. I suppose I must have been fortunate (I actually won a couple of art prizes so she must have seen something in me). I had no idea that her attentions were so capriciously directed.[*]
I am sorry others didn’t share my experience. I suppose I must have been fortunate (I actually won a couple of art prizes so she must have seen something in me). I had no idea that her attentions were so capriciously directed.[*]
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:27 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Nell Todd painting for sale
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7895
Re: Nell Todd painting for sale
Nell Todd was a beacon of colour and originality in the drab, aesthetic wasteland that was the bachelor dominated Common Room of the 1960s. It is surprising that she appeared to flourish under Seaman’s rather joyless management, for she embodied a headstrong independence and Caledonian nonconformity...
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:39 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 16840
Re: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
It was David Mason. An impressive biog here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mason_(trumpeter) First heard in Barnes B dayroom I count my house mates’' musical tastes as perhaps the most influential of all the music I encountered at CH; they covered everything from Janacek, Dowland and Prokofi...
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 10:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 16840
Re: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
She’s done it, possibly thanks to a very generous individual who may just have responded from this site. There are some good people about.
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:22 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 16840
Re: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
She has reached her target, I believe. From her Go Fund Me page it looks like she’s about £250 short. For a final nudge just think of the sublime horn solo in Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony. I discovered that work in my house record library at CH. At about the same time I was into Sergeant Pepper - onl...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:03 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 16840
Re: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
Talented horn pupil needs her own instrument to take up a place at The Royal Academy of Music. Well worth supporting I think.
[url]www.gofundme.com/own-horn-for-royal-academy-of-music/
[url]www.gofundme.com/own-horn-for-royal-academy-of-music/
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:54 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Dobbie's departure
- Replies: 109
- Views: 37542
Re: Dobbie's departure
JR I will heed your note of censure and accept Tim's clarification. Dobbie's case incites a level of contempt in me that goes way beyond the disgust I feel for the other convicted paedophiles. His dog collar symbolised a level of trust that was available to no other member of staff and he used it wi...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:05 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Dobbie's departure
- Replies: 109
- Views: 37542
Re: Dobbie's departure
I actually thought it might alleviate the shock to some MidA OBs if it turned out that abuse did NOT occur in MidA during term time. This would not be inconsistent with the (admittedly incomplete) press reports of the trial. As been mentioned by others, Dobbie retained considerable loyalty from his...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:07 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: It's time for Sillett, Cairncross and Poulton to comment.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 28990
Re: It's time for Sillett, Cairncross and Poulton to comment.
Julian You are doing a brilliant job. I won't be alone in wanting to acknowledge what an important service this forum serves for those of us who have spent our lives privately trying to work out what a CH education was all about. That it is independent of the school and largely populated by independ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:50 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13117
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
But perhaps these results would be even more impressive if someone could give comparable results for comparable schools. Local schools A*/B: Brighton College 99% Christ’s Hospital 75% Collyers Horsham 59% Last year CH achieved 43% and came 93rd in the national table using this metric. So an improve...
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:21 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Roger Martin
- Replies: 199
- Views: 77821
Re: Roger Martin
My assessment is that there were at least 50 from World War 2 on Richard If your assessment of the possible total number of abuse victims is anywhere near correct (and I believe you are probably privy to information that supports this figure) then we have a scandal that completely dwarfs the Amplef...
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13117
Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
I hope other Old Blues will join me in congratulating this year’s Grecians on an impressive set of A level results. And of course to Simon Reid on a successful first year in the post as Headmaster. Christ’s Hospital pupils and their teachers are celebrating another year of excellent A level results....
- Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:17 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Ampleforth and Downside
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6673
Re: Ampleforth and Downside
And the Governor at Downside with special responsibility for safeguarding was: Lady Gillian Rees-Mogg, the MP’s mother, was the school governor with responsibility for child protection at Downside for some of this period. Her role, mentioned in evidence at the IICSA inquiry, is recorded in a July 20...
- Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:17 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Ampleforth and Downside
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6673
Re: Ampleforth and Downside
You are joking.don’t mind being taunted