Ascension Day

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

I'm afraid (Very afraid ) that I don't remember Ascencion Day at all !
I don't want to suggest that CH in the 40s was all joy and delight (See Brian Magee !) but I seem to remember that there were Games --- Rugby, Cricket, Swimming, Shooting and "Farm" pretty well every Afternoon, and we seemed to be able to cycle a lot,
also there were "Runs" out into the surrounding Countryside eg: to Five Oaks.
All this was organised on a House basis, in addition to School Matches.
One wonders when there were Lessons --- but that is one (Only one ?) of the Advantages of a Boarding School .

Ah ! Nostalgia !

[michael scuffil]

One wonders when there were Lessons --- but that is one (Only one ?) of the Advantages of a Boarding School .

Ah ! Nostalgia !

Bryan Magee spent a term in France and worked out that at their boarding school there, where there was no sport, they had precisely twice as much time devoted to "academic" activity. (Can't say it's got them very far. What can you say of a nation that takes Sartre seriously?)

I hated school sport, but loved being in the countryside, which at home I had never experienced. I think I would put house runs in the latter category, they really weren't serious sport.

[sejintenej]

Sejintenej wrote:

One Catholic school even moved to England because it's existence in France is not allowed

??? I'm pretty sure that the school in Rennes with which an exchange is arranged every year for LE pupils is an independent Catholic school. The state education system in France is certainly secular though (but I can't see how a state-funded school could have moved to England!).

ISTR that the school I was thinking about is called Douai or something like that. I cannot imagine that it was / is state funded - I suspect it operates financially like a UK public school. There is one large edifice near Revel (close to here) which was a Catholic boarding school before the pupils were evicted; not too sure what it is officially now but I have been to a couple of concerts there. Even the original house of the Dominican Order below Fanjeux is a pretty tiny place - one of only two openly religious communities in this area that I know of.

[Foureyes]

Councerning Douai, I beleieve that you will find that the school moved from France to England in 1903 (for the reasons you give) but that it closed in 1999.

[CHAZ]

Douai is now a rather nice, exclusive estate of flats and houses....

[Eruresto]

Mrs. C is correct - there was a eucharist at 8.30, starting in the quad and processing into chapel with songs and stuff.

[J.R.]

Mrs. C is correct - there was a eucharist at 8.30, starting in the quad and processing into chapel with songs and stuff.

[Eruresto]

Violin performances, anthems, all that kind of jazz.

[J.R.]

Jazz anthems.

Now there's a thought !

[Fjgrogan]

Housey meets New Orleans?

[Jo]

Just catching up.....I remember Ascension Day quite fondly, mainly because it was a day off school! Also I remember the cleaners having a day off so we didn't have to put our chairs up on the tables in the dayroom for them to sweep (what a strange memory!).

I remember several outings, at least twice to Kenwood, once to the Tower of London, and some more local to Hertford. I just remember it being a different day in our rather boring calendar, and hence something to look forward to.

[Euterpe13]

Ascension Day will always mean pilchard sandwiches to me...

[Kim2s70-77]

I swear I spent the majority of my seven years in Hertford with my head in some kind of fog, blissfully unaware of what, or why, things were happenening. I do remember a trip to Blenheim palace in Oxfordshire at one point, but have no knowledge or awareness of why we went there or how - or whether it was an isolated random thing. I don't really remember any other field trips away from school.

[gma]

This forum is freaky, you just think that you've remembered everything then someone will post something on a tread or make a comment and you'll cry out loud "OMG I remember that, why did I forget?"

I forgot the gardens around the back of the science block but remembered the 'disco' in the basement; didn't remember the swings but did remember scaling the blue gates at the back of the kitchen; remembered Bun playing Finlandia by Sibelius while we opened chapel windows but forgot which comrade I went down there with; remembered quiz and ego (and still use it now when tired or squiffy) but not the word squizzing; remembered weighing and measures but not white stripes on swiming costumes - it's endless!