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- Tue Feb 02, 2016 6:27 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Ward/House changes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4712
Re: Ward/House changes
I got moved from 2's to 7's as an alternative to expulsion!!
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:56 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Gravel Crunching
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12862
Re: Gravel Crunching
Definitely taught us science and engraved on my mind for ever that because metal expanded when hot if you were changing the height of shelves in the oven it should be done before you heated the oven up!
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Punishment
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11104
Re: Punishment
I think I probably have some authority to speak about punishments at CH , having received rather a lot of them... Sitting at the top of the table next to the mons (a total nightmare if you were a vegetarian and could not pass your food to anyone ) Silent meals Being made to stand out on the landing ...
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:01 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Fiona Toplis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6761
Re: Fiona Toplis
I absolutely adored having history with Mrs Toplis and am still amazed at how she managed to enthrall eleven year old girls with the detailed battle strategies of Roman and Carthaginian leaders. Moreover she was just a lovely person- one of my nicest outings at CH was when I went home with Fiona one...
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 9:55 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Hertford - proscribed reading
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12318
Re: Hertford - proscribed reading
If I had the £300.00 I would go for it!
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:51 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Hertford - proscribed reading
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12318
Re: Hertford - proscribed reading
I am devastated that somebody else has a copy of Bran the Bronzesmith. I have tried to find it for years. How could anyone say it did not have a plot.... it involved rivalry, friendship, adoption and narrowly averted human sacrifice if I remember rightly. I totally loved the book and as I was forced...
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Charitable status of independent schools
- Replies: 70
- Views: 16610
Re: Charitable status of independent schools
I would definitely support the idea of streaming but I think it has to be manged carefully and there needs to be a clear recognition that things can change for children so there is no requirement for children to remain fixed in a particular intellectual, social or emotional box. I agree with your co...
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Charitable status of independent schools
- Replies: 70
- Views: 16610
Re: Charitable status of independent schools
I am slightly perturbed about the general tone of this thread. Possibly because I have a fairly strong left wing perspective. I don't think that would automatically exclude me from supporting the idea of CH. I think in selecting for CH the balance between intelligence, financial need and emotional/s...
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: (No longer proposed) Gathering, Hertford 5/4/08
- Replies: 46
- Views: 10357
Re: (No longer proposed) Gathering, Hertford 5/4/08
Like most others on the day I had a brilliant time and would like to add my thanks to those who had the inspiration and the sticking power to organise it. My only regret was not being able to be in ten different places round the dinner table. I do, however, have a very public apology that I have to ...
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Proposed gathering at Hertford Museum - 4/5 April 08
- Replies: 263
- Views: 42548
Re: Proposed gathering at Hertford Museum - 4/5 April 08
Surely deliberate- we were confronting authority en masse for perhaps the first time at Hertford and authority made it quite clear that our victory was going to have a sting in the tail. It at least showed a dry - in the case of the pastry very dry- sense of humour.
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:35 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Proposed gathering at Hertford Museum - 4/5 April 08
- Replies: 263
- Views: 42548
Re: Proposed gathering at Hertford Museum - 4/5 April 08
However, Judy, I'm leaping to the defence of Miss Morrison here. I don't like to hear her called by that nickname! :x She was an admirable woman of a certain size, enormously capable, vastly organised, and with a hugely dry Scottish sense of humour. Quite agree with you and can only request forgive...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:45 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Proposed gathering at Hertford Museum - 4/5 April 08
- Replies: 263
- Views: 42548
Re: Proposed gathering at Hertford Museum - 4/5 April 08
I never realised you got blamed for the bomb scare Alex. It happened in our Senior VI year when you and I had stayed on to take Oxbridge exams.We were all herded into the school hall while the school was searched. The mistresses didn't really know what to do with us in a situation that did not fit i...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:38 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: 'Away from the Bombs and the Boys' - available to order
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9993
Re: 'Away from the Bombs and the Boys' - available to order
I am fascinated by the collective amnesia in this thread. There certainly were those dreadful ( normal) infestations when we were there and in deed the tooth combs got used. Interestingly as I remember it the creatures did not seem able to jump the hierarchical gap between the more junior and senior...
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:15 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: A Question of Queenie
- Replies: 80
- Views: 19666
Re: A Question of Queenie
I think after about 1970 there was no Senior Vith, as Oxbridge exams were taken in Upper Sixth. Judy or Mary can probably answer that one. We definitely still had a senior VI in 1972 as Alex and I were both in it. We almost weren't allowed to stay on however as we were considered too wicked to help...
- Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:44 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Sports standards
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5214
Re: Sports standards
Overall I quite enjoyed sport at CH and am probably glad we were required to do half an hours exercise a day- it laid down a reasonable physiogical basis even if I have since squandered it. I do, however, remember having a major fallout with Nellie one year when I ended up as the sports rep for 7s a...