Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I appreciate Howard H taking the time to post on this subject. Although I know it has been said that staff contributing to this forum can be frowned upon, I think it is great that someone has taken the initiative to make themselves available to anyone who feels they are not getting the information t...

My sympathy and understanding go out to you and your son, Donald. My experience with CH has been, I think, similar to yours. One difference is that my dd was put on the waiting list last year. After a little research I discovered only 6 girls received a waiting list place. And within a few weeks I l...

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site since April of last year when it finally became clear that my daughter, who was on the waiting list for Year 7 entry, was unfortunatley probably not going to get a place. Ofcourse I wished everyone all the best, but it was a little painful and we needed to mov...

ailurophile, thank you for your comments and for clarifying what you found insensitive. I realise that the reasons behind withdrawing children from CH are likely to be unhappy ones. But the children not accepting a place to go into the second form....I do not agree that the reasons behind that decis...

ailurophile, I sympathise with your situation as well. However, each of our situations is different and I wouldn't want to criticise anyone for what I might perceive as their view that their situation is worse than ours. I certainly didn't mean to say that yours was, of course, and I am aware there ...

I recently called the CH office to try to find out whether we had any chance left, as the date had just passed when parents become liable for the first term's fees. We had both been waiting as patiently as we could for this day, when I told my daughter we should know more. It seems everyone had paid...

Re Wandsworth -- My cousin went to Emmanuel, Which HE maintains is the best in the World (Not having been to CH !) His Father was a Prison Officer, at the Prison -- so it was local. State schools change alot over the years, and so the reputation of a school a few years or more ago is unlikely to ha...

It's true, what you say about Wandsworth borough anniexf. Well managed etc, Wandsworth, and quite a few good primary schools. However, secondary schools are not so good. Also of the six schools closest to me, only 3 of them were in Wandsworth. I wasn't very clear on that in my last post. The other s...

Anyone who considers they have no more to learn - at any stage in their life - has surely learnt (or understood)very little?

Yes, but in London very few indeed. We have one with an excellent reputation one not ten minutes walk from us. As it is generally thought of as the only decent one in Wandsworth it is vastly oversubscribed and we didn't get in. There just aren't enough good London state schools and only a tiny minor...

Barwen, I think you need to remember how fortunate you are that your son has got a place at a good independent school. And with a scholarship. I don't mean to sound churlish, but I can't tell you how happy I would be if my child had such a great alternative to her waiting list place at CH. He sounds...

ailurophile - so glad you said that, I was beginning to think I was missing something too as I just don't see how pupils can be found at this stage. Besides, the places for year 7 (is it called something different at CH?) have already been filled.

Has there been any hint of when they will be brought in? And would this affect the children on the waiting list for September '10 entry? My daughter is on the waiting list along with a friend she made at the residential. Her friend was offered a place yesterday, and I can really see the stress on my...

I see there are concerns that if CH are offering places to day pupils, that this will eradicate any chance for those on the pres ent waiting list. Can anyone clarify, are we talking about children being offered day places for this September? If so, then isn't that unlikely since this option hasn't b...

Hi, I'm new to this forum. My daughter has also been placed on the waiting list. I know how you feel, it never occured to me that this might still not be over by this weekend. Also consider myself pretty calm, but I really do feel sick. Apparently there are 12 children on the waiting list. The order...