Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Sorry, Pibble! I really wasn't complaining about you (or anyone else), I was just having one of those "everybody but me can ....." moments - I get them when the newsletters arrive from school too with their tempting concerts and plays and suchlike. Childish, I know, and in fact I think you...

I feel a bit rotten reading all these posts as, much as I might want to, I just can't afford a birthday visit to my child, or treats for their friends or house. I remember, when they first started at CH and a matron cheerfully suggested that it was always fine if I wanted to come up to school at wee...

postwarblue wrote:Newsflash, Coleridge was at school in East Sussex.

In fact, if we're being really nit-picky the Coleridge referred to by the seller of the desk, Samuel Coleridge Taylor (composer), isn't an Old Blue at all .... unlike Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) ....

Antinous

Well sending him back at 5.30 might solve the feeding problem, as he could always nip over to Big School and gorge on the nice biscuits laid out for whichever parents' evening is on

Unbelievable, YadaYada! They missed out on a little star! Perhaps the child they chose was just a bit more "needy" in the CH sense? Yes, but luckily the school didn't miss out on Yada's son who has clearly already more than justified their decision to give him a place - perhaps the point ...

I wonder what constitutes expensive in Californian terms? That question got me mildly interested. A very casual bit of investigating suggests that the average fees for boarding schools in US might be around $42,000 a year (£26,500 roughly), which would make CH a little less than averagely expensiv...

Thankyou everyone, this has all been very helpful! Seing as we could never afford the fees, we have been considering changing everything (child benefits etc) so that my step daughter goes to live with her mother, who would probably qualify for a much larger bursary! Do you think this is worth doing...

I thought that any new parents who haven't got round to getting a calculator yet might like to know that Morrisons have the one the school specifies on special offer for £5 in their 'Back to School' stationery section at the moment. I'm not sure, but I think that's cheaper than the tuck shop sells ...

unless she takes lots of pairs and saves them up to wash herself at home on leave weekends and holidays. You cannot be serious!!! Well, I have heard of kids saving up fancier items of clothing to take home for washing rather than risk them going through the laundry, so I thought she might be desper...

The sock ties are to keep them together in the laundry process and save time for those sorting the laundry, so the answer is yes I guess, unless she takes lots of pairs and saves them up to wash herself at home on leave weekends and holidays. I definitely advocate folding the nametape in half and st...

I didn't know either, but I never wanted my ds to be 'the poor kid', I'm hoping that CH will have a huge variety when it comes to social background, and am taking out a loan! Well, provided that the following information taken from the school's website is still more or less correct, I think he's un...

I suspect that you have misunderstood: the number of places available depends on the number of pupils who leave in the previous July. This will depend on how many stay on to take A levels, perhaps even the number who stay even after that, and the number who leave after GCSE. In my final years there...

Last year's 2nd form was unusually small though, wasn't it? That was what always puzzled me so much about poor Bosty94 and her daughter, who didn't get a place from the waiting list. Surely the point about the waiting list is that you are saying 'if only we had room we would take your child. If you ...

merciless

We will now have to pay for music too, so DD will have to give up oboe and singing. Plus her little sister will have to wave goodbye to starting the violin....something we thought would be an asset should she apply for CH. This has me really anxious! We are in almost exactly the same position from ...