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- Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: SPECIAL NEEDS AT CH
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8734
Re: SPECIAL NEEDS AT CH
I have to say I think that Sarah's story is quite appalling. It would be perhaps important, and certainly helpful, to hear the school's 'take', but that's hardly likely to happen on the Forum, I presume. Having been a successful pupil myself, it has been a salutary eye-opener to read some of the cri...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:21 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Smoking by CH pupils
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5729
Re: Smoking by CH pupils
Oh, and DJD used to smoke his cigarettes in a little cigarette-holder – a mild dandyism, I suppose. And he had a habit of pushing his fingers through his hair which for some reason sticks in my mind when I think of him smoking.
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:15 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Smoking by CH pupils
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5729
Re: Smoking by CH pupils
My Dad had smoked a pipe; we had a close family friend, a country doctor, who smoked a pipe pretty well continuously all day long; so it seemed obvious to me that as I grew up, I would smoke a pipe too. It was a disappointment to find that it is a messy, wet and fussy business; and after a teenage p...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Death of Pat Daunt (Horsham Staff 53-65)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4175
Re: Death of Pat Daunt (Horsham Staff 53-65)
May he rest in peace and rise in glory. I think he already had (and shared) a good dose of the light perpetual in his lifetime. Like Mike Scuffil, I remember him as one of my favourite teachers - unstuffy, enthusiastic, his time in Sydney having been pretty far on the left, a pro-comprehensive educa...
- Sun Dec 08, 2013 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: buttons - on the sleeve?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2759
buttons - on the sleeve?
On Friday 15 November, I was passing through London and so had the opportunity to attend the CH musicians' lunchtime concert in St Martin's in the Fields: a Shostakovich string quartet, and Britten's lovely piece 'Rejoice in the Lamb'. As it happened, with this being the 100th anniversary of Benjami...
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:54 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Saluting
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17461
Re: Saluting
My mother 'Ma Massen' loved being called Sir. I can't remember her being saluted in the school grounds, perhaps this was only outside the "ring fence". ... I don't remember ever saluting your mother or any other member of staff, and I certainly didn't call her 'sir' (although she never ta...
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:36 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Roger Martin
- Replies: 43
- Views: 24678
Re: Roger Martin
It's 7 (seven) years since anyone posted on this thread, which I hadn't noticed until relatively recently. And then a fellow Old Blue posted a link to the YouTube segments of the Remembrance Day Service 1988; and having myself for the first time led a Remembrance Sunday service just last weekend (10...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:41 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Edward Malins
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19112
Re: Edward Malins
It is curious that one of the few actual memories I have of Gad teaching concerns Keith the author of the previous post. We had had to write a story in the style of the 18th century (this was the UFA, i.e. third year), and Gad commented that he liked the authentic manner in which Keith combined the...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:16 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Edward Malins
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19112
Re: Edward Malins
I have a slightly different take on Edward Malins. I was in his English class for 2 years, I guess (LF & UF?), & thoroughly enjoyed our lessons. But then my mother, also an English teacher, intrigued by my enthuisasm, asked me to tell her more concretely about his teaching - & to my acut...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Walking the TransPennine Challenge for CR Mirfield
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3859
Re: Walking the TransPennine Challenge for CR Mirfield
by popular(?) demand, the photo is in place
- Tue May 28, 2013 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Walking the TransPennine Challenge for CR Mirfield
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3859
Walking the TransPennine Challenge for CR Mirfield
Dear fellow Old Blues, WALKING THE TRANSPENNINE CHALLENGE FOR CR MIRFIELD http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/keibat/Caminokiltmdm_zpseb521abf.jpg Across the last weekend in June, Saturday 22 – Sunday 23 June (Midsummer Weekend for the Nordics), I’ll be facing the toughest physical challenge I...
- Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: 6 page article in today's Telegraph magazine
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4033
Re: 6 page article in today's Telegraph magazine
Btw/ — forgive my ignorance — but yes, I've now spotted girl #2 lurking in the background. But when do the girls wear yellow and when grey stockings? Looking at other pictures, it doesn't for example simply go with best dress and everyday, as my wife has a photo she dug up from somewhere showing two...
- Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: 6 page article in today's Telegraph magazine
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4033
Re: 6 page article in today's Telegraph magazine
It was a pity that in all the pictures (which were fun), there seemed to be only 1 girl shown.
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:38 am
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: St Matthews Day Parade
- Replies: 63
- Views: 22361
Re: St Matthews Day Parade
Dear Michael – Well, I had certainly not expected a response from the Lead Drum Major in person! Thanks for your comment: Keibat; My deepest apologies! Unfortunately, we were limited in terms of time and space in the Guildhall Yard, and so it was not possible to perform a 'toss' at that particular p...
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:22 am
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: St Matthews Day Parade
- Replies: 63
- Views: 22361
Re: St Matthews Day Parade
The video clips I took in the Guildhall square – nothing to boast about, on a handheld iPhone – are now up on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/album/2085734
Please let me know if there are any problems with accessing them
Keith
https://vimeo.com/album/2085734
Please let me know if there are any problems with accessing them
Keith