Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

In this age of email - i cannot remember the last time I wrote a letter by hand. I suspect that for many children, the only time they will ever write long hand is at school. Even that is dying out. I have a ten year old daughter and arguably, one key skill that is more important than most for her to...

I remember him conducting the school orchestra, in a one off concert at the Barbican. I think it was to celebrate the 450th celebrations. It was a great day although I have no idea what the orchestra performed. It would be good to do that sort of concert again one day, when money allows.

There is no bias. The school treats all applications equally and i suggest that the number of applications from the South is due to a number of factors. A key one is that many parents today are keen to see their children more! Boarding is hard on a parent at times and therefore many would be parents...

The Avenue has gone as in it was thought that these notes were dated, in an age where so many children keep up to date with Facebook. It dates from a time when the Blue was published termly and parents rarely saw their offspring. No leave weekends etc. Moreover, 90% of the Blue's readership are not ...

Contact me if no joy by the end of the weekend. They can be chased up with the Royal Mail.

They were ready in late December but for reasons that are a mystery it took the distribution house a long time to post. They were sent Mailshot 3 so they should arrive but do rely on the vagaries of each postal district. Sorry! I hope that you enjoy what you read in the end - as i posted on a differ...

As the editor of the Blue I was pleased to see that most think that the magazine portrays the school well. It remains what it has always been - a record of a year in the life of this busy school and Old Blue network. The quality of the artwork, design, poetry, prose, political writing, drama, music ...

Thank you for the info onewestguncopse. My 3rd form DD will apparently be the only one of her house group returning without a laptop, iPad, netbook or kindle/kindle fire. We cannot afford any of these items at this time. It is comforting to know that a laptop is not essential for school work until ...

No - all he needs to do is go to the IT department so that they can configure it to work via the school WIFI. I think that Laptops are very useful but not essential until the UF or above, where they will become increasingly important. At sixth form they are almost essential. In some ways they are mo...

I doubt they would go down well. Not certain but doubt that Matron would approve!!

DM style is fine. They must be black, polishable and robust!

The close member of my family would not want to be inundated with emails about getting autographs - so anon would be better.

He is not an old Blue. A member of my family works with him and can verify that!

I am the school editor of the Blue, so i thought I would add my thoughts. First, I hope that you like the magazine. It is a mammoth task putting it together. Second, it does cover the year 2010/11 but includes a few events that occur from September 2010. As a result we do not start to put it togethe...

Well spotted! I thought i would just throw another one in to see who was reading carefully. Old Blues' do have a sound grasp of grammar and punctuation!