Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The last time I had to think for a nanosecond about logs was a few years ago. A friend, also a former Maths teacher and very close to me in age, called out to me across a room of youngsters that the key code for a cupboard was log pi. I dialled 4971 and opened it, one of the youngsters did ask ...

It was 'crug', surely, not "crab"?!!

Definitely 'crab' in the late 1970s.

About 20 years ago the CH website mentioned 'croissants' as part of the breakfast. Ye Gods, that sounds like progress (well, until tested and tasted, perhaps not).


I think it was a bit house dependent. Traditionally ...

I feel that you making this more complicated than necessary. Regarding my family they suddenly became true green Irish...to avoid the queues.
That is what I feel is wrong.


It probably is wrong but it is exactly what I did. Yes - it helps avoid the queues and makes me much more popular abroad ...

VAT seems the fairest approach and long-overdue. I’ve no desire to bankroll the scions of MoD and Diplomatic Corps staff, nor the rash of Chinese (HK or otherwise) that take up a significant chunk of the private sector.

You are not bankrolling anybody; average per-pupil funding in the maintained ...

The VAT will only be levied on the fees actually paid so I would imagine would not be all that significant a figure for most parents in receipt of major bursaries, ie the majority. For the full fee payers, they are genuinely going to have the broadest shoulders, but I suspect we may see a reduction ...

I've never watched Star Wars, at least not a whole film. I've never played a computer game unless you count Tetrus.

It certainly does still exist and you can read about it here: https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/about-christs-hospital/information/curriculum/broader-curriculum/ccf/. It no longer meets on Friday afternoons though and membership is entirely voluntary, or at least that's what it says in the blurb ...

Baked beans and bacon and fried bread dripping with grease at 7 am
And then having to clean the trough afterwards
Just had to think of that😅


I am pleased to report that I have just enjoyed a proper fat boys' breakfast of sausage, bacon, fried bread (x2) and baked beans, also at 0700. Armed ...

Leo

The most chaotic lessons during my time there were Chemistry with a certain Mr Mathews. He had been on the staff for a very, very long time and was a highly ineffective teacher to be honest who only once bothered to mark our work. This was in the Lower Fourth, which equates to what is nowadays ...

I deeply regret to report that my brother Adrian Francis Sweeny , who was in Leigh Hunt B and Coleridge A between 1972 and 1978 and was generally known at CH as Ben, has been found dead at his home. He had been in poor health for many years.

He was a longstanding and at times controversial ...

In my time, late 1970s, the great three of the Manual School were Mr Wyncoll, who made a valiant effort at teaching me woodwork, I know I exasperated him with my abysmal lack of skill, but he hid it fairly well. Poor chap suffered from the stress of the job later IIRC, he was also a CCF Major.

Mr ...

4. When looking at both private health care, and private schools - they both take load and costs off the state, reducing the costs of education and the NHS. Whilst it absolutely creates a haves-and-have-nots divide in society, it does reduce costs to the state and thus (in a small way) increase ...

We are delighted to announce that for this academic year Christ’s Hospital is committing a record £24 million in means-tested bursary support. This means that of the 876 students at CH, 672 (77%) students will receive a bursary, averaging 85% remission of school fees.

I have seen this too. In my ...

Perhaps it's to reflect that rural Christ's Hospital Horsham was build to replace the inner city Christ's Hospital Newgate Street? The Horsham site is the is certainly the consequence of a change to the urban landscape.

Just a thought ...

I went from Aston Webb’s CH to Aston Webb’s BRNC and they were spookily similar, except that at the time BRNC (Hawke Division at least) was quite well looked after whereas I vividly remember how tired and jury-rigged the boarding houses at Horsham were. Now it’s Dartmouth hitting the news for ...