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Did you.....
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:38 pm
by Vonny
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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.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:15 pm
by midget
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:47 pm
by Katharine
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 ....
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:24 pm
by Vonny
Katharine wrote:I think my parents tried to find presentations for all of us but ....
My dad wrote loads and loads of letters trying to get me presented but nothing came of it
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:27 am
by sejintenej
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:58 pm
by J.R.
In a word.....................
NO !!!!
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:11 pm
by ben ashton
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).
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:21 pm
by J.R.
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:22 pm
by icomefromalanddownunder
sejintenej wrote: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.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:33 pm
by ben ashton
J.R. wrote:Is that the one in Stamford Street, near Waterloo ?
indeed
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:10 pm
by englishangel
I believe Peter is 4 years older than Katharine which would make him 9 when she was 5, and John would have been 6.
Also I think the school was spread through Hertfordshire, Ware and Hoddesdon ring bells, not just in Hertford.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:20 pm
by Katharine
englishangel wrote:I believe Peter is 4 years older than Katharine which would make him 9 when she was 5, and John would have been 6.
Also I think the school was spread through Hertfordshire, Ware and Hoddesdon ring bells, not just in Hertford.
I agree with everything you say, Mary!
Why is it when I make a typo that it gets picked up and quoted in large font and colour?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:11 pm
by Vonny
Katharine wrote:I agree with everything you say, Mary!
Don't - she'll get big headed!
Katharine wrote:Why is it when I make a typo that it gets picked up and quoted in large font and colour?
Sod's law?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:31 pm
by J.R.
Vonny wrote:Katharine wrote:I agree with everything you say, Mary!
Don't - she'll get big headed!
Katharine wrote:Why is it when I make a typo that it gets picked up and quoted in large font and colour?
Sod's law?
Handbags at the ready, Girls !!!!!!
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:39 pm
by sejintenej
icomefromalanddownunder wrote:sejintenej wrote: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.
Applegoose - misread that it was when YOU were 5
David