Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Have an update on this - the local grammar is out. I spoke to admissions and they will only accept accelerated pupils whose B'day is pre dec 31st (his is January) and if he goes into year 7 at any other school they will also not accept him. Apparently this is their published policy agreed with the l...

When I started in 81 there were just the couple of call boxes on back avenue and we would ring shout hello and get called back, remember queues of people standing in the rain tapping their watches if you were over about 3 minutes When they introdu=ced the block system and did the "minor" r...

I have o say this does all make me rather remember the old BBB campaign when Baker was shuffled out. As for time out of house. I seem to remember that basically lock up was beginning of first prep for juniors and end of prep breae for all others (grecians knew how to get out anyway) As for TV in jun...

Can't just leave him be as he is at junior school and will have to move somewhere, the question is whether we engineer him ending up back in the correct age/academic year if so how so or whether we just leave him accelerated and go for the local grammar. The local comp is a definate no go as it is a...

Thanks all (and the PM's) I will PM Great Plum to pass my details to his father. By the way I know it is based on how the exam social side goes. For several years I used to be one of the helpers as I lived do close to school and Bob Sillett used to ask ours opinions on who we thought would and would...

Bit of a tricky question. By the way i am an old blue LHB/A 81-9 My son is 8 but has been accelerated a year at primary level (he jumped yr 1 went from reception straight to yr 2. This leaves us with a dilemma, he is obviously academic enough for CV exams (doing extra special maths on top of the ext...

I remeber a lad called Perman ? who was expelled for stealing from Horsham, when he was being confronted he jumped up from his desk in the quiet room of LHB (he was on UF as jnr house monitor) and jumped out of the windown into the big holly bush below. We used to always smoke on the roof of the qui...

A senior single drill was 4 laps of the loop from the old swimming pool down to the station and up the hill again, a double was 6 laps, triple got you a detention. I think they were straight after lunch on Thursdays as I had hobbies afternoon woodwork after and I remember a Northern teacher who woul...

I was on my UF merger year and was one of the few who went on a coach trip th Hertford the preceeding Summer and I know very little about it. It is only because I know you only filled 4 house that I can guess it was <200 girls. My only memory of it was that it was like a miniturised horsham folded i...

And then there were those wild garlic/cow parsley smells which will always be so closely associated with wandering around the countryside on Sundays. Whenever I catch a nostrilful of 'em, I'm suddenly 13 years old again and hanging around the stream that ran along just inside the ring fence at the ...

Definately am on the database as i just got the please give a donation to pay for.......... pamphlet

And I know wendy as I went to primary school with her son - which is also where bob sillett's wife was deputy head and hence how I came to enter the exam

Might have helped if they actually informed people. I actually found this thread while trying to find the date of OB day thinking it must be soon. My brother OB 2001 also knew nothing about the date. Both of us have correct details with the school. I wanted to go as my son (age 8 but accelerated an ...

This is on the West Sussex County Times website

http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/Sec ... 4174623.jp

Craig, Definately pre 89 I got a pair of DM shoes when still in LHB so pre girls (I went up to LHA for UF), I remember the changeover from school issued DB shoes to "black lace up 4 holes" as my DM shoes didn't actually comply being 3 holes. Sadly I still have 2 stripey CH towels that i us...

In the 80's LHB was Maroon & Gold, LHA was plain light Blue, they then swapped with Peele B when the block system was introduced (83 ?) then the jnr house kept Maroon/gold until becoming a girls house and LHA was green white hoops. We all had 3 rugby shirts plain blue, plain white and house, 2 c...