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....want to go to CH when you found out you'd be going?
I can remember when I was around 8 years old (the same age as my daughter is now) & I was reading Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers & The Twins at St Claire's I begged my parents to send me to boarding school only to be told I wouldn't be going. However, when I was told I'd be going for the entrance exam for CH I cried as I didn't want to go away to school
My daughter has told me she DEFINITELY doesn't want to go to CH - she's reading the same Enid Blyton books I read at the moment & loves them though I don't know if I should pursue the CH thing or not. I'd love her to go but I just don't know. She's very intelligent & is in the top groups for everything at school and her teacher told me a few weeks back that her literacy is at the level of Year 6. She's in Year 3. I guess I have a few years to think about it but I know it will soon come around.
I couldn't wait to get there. I was kept completely in the dark, as I had not taken a separate CH exam. Iknew I had a place at the local grammar school, and was worried that my mother was showing no interest in getting the uniform. Then one day my father said "Would you like to go to boarding school?" and I jumped at the chance (I too was reared on school stories) I expect I would still have been sent to Hertford if I had said NO.
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I grew up almost expecting to go, my OB father was very keen on our going. My brother, Peter, had stated in Prep A when I was just 5. When the younger of my two brothers (a year older than me) failed to get in there was gloom and dismay all around.
Peter had a BSB Presentation, John and I took Almoner's exams. I think my parents tried to find presentations for all of us but ....
Katharine wrote:I grew up almost expecting to go, my OB father was very keen on our going. My brother, Peter, had stated in Prep A when I was just 5. When the younger of my two brothers (a year older than me) failed to get in there was gloom and dismay all around.
Peter had a BSB Presentation, John and I took Almoner's exams. I think my parents tried to find presentations for all of us but ....
I think Peter would have got in at age 9 - certainly not before if he is remotely close to your age.
Going back in history there were cases of 5 year olds or younger. Theuy used to be sent to Hertford until they were older. There was the case of one girl who was found a domstic job and, for some reason lost it. From what is written I think that in today's parlance she was simple. , She was taken back into CH at the age of from memory 23 (but coiuld have been older).
Interestingly, CH was at Hertford because of the fire of 1666, returned to London and then went back to Hertford many years later to found the school there.
Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars
but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million.
(Arnold Schwarzenegger!)
Applied for 6 schools.
Accepted for 3 of them.
Turned down local lame one and London Nautical (which tbh i cheated on the entrance exam for (slightly) hehe).
Cherish pity; lest you drive an angel from your door
ben ashton wrote:Applied for 6 schools.
Accepted for 3 of them.
Turned down local lame one and London Nautical (which tbh i cheated on the entrance exam for (slightly) hehe).
Is that the one in Stamford Street, near Waterloo ?
When I used to get the train up to London, I used to see these little lads in their sort of naval uniforms carrying loads of books.
Katharine wrote:I grew up almost expecting to go, my OB father was very keen on our going. My brother, Peter, had stated in Prep A when I was just 5. When the younger of my two brothers (a year older than me) failed to get in there was gloom and dismay all around.
Peter had a BSB Presentation, John and I took Almoner's exams. I think my parents tried to find presentations for all of us but ....
I think Peter would have got in at age 9 - certainly not before if he is remotely close to your age.
Katharine wrote:I grew up almost expecting to go, my OB father was very keen on our going. My brother, Peter, had stated in Prep A when I was just 5. When the younger of my two brothers (a year older than me) failed to get in there was gloom and dismay all around.
Peter had a BSB Presentation, John and I took Almoner's exams. I think my parents tried to find presentations for all of us but ....
I think Peter would have got in at age 9 - certainly not before if he is remotely close to your age.
hehe).
