Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

peter2095 wrote: “The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is expected to look at boarding schools later this year.” Does anyone know whether this has happened yet? Also a thought has just occurred to me. If CH doesn't want to participate in an inquiry, might there be other options? It can't...

Re: How far did the rot spread? by Janey Jam-Jar » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:37 am Fair enough if you disagree. Don't tell me I'm naive and my opinion is ridiculous though. Sorry Janey Jam Jar. When my kids left enthusiastically each term for their happy and successful boarding school careers they didn’t...

Yamaha, my feelings are running fairly high at the moment. Being told my opinions are naive or ridiculous is how I was treated when I was younger and subsequently at a massively critical moment at school that ultimately went tits up. I don't appreciate it as an adult, but now I have the nerve to say...

Re: How far did the rot spread? Post by Janey Jam-Jar » Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:20 am Please read Nick Duffell on the subject of boarding ('The Making of Them' and 'Trauma, Abandonment & Privilege') and Joy Schaverien ('Boarding School Syndrome'). I thought there was something inherently wrong with ...

Please read Nick Duffell on the subject of boarding ('The Making of Them' and 'Trauma, Abandonment & Privilege') and Joy Schaverien ('Boarding School Syndrome'). I thought there was something inherently wrong with me, that I never truly adjusted into what was expected of me. There wasn't anythin...

Girls houses were Leigh-Hunt A & B (changed from a boys house in 88 I think - Julian will know) Barnes A & B Coleridge A & B Only one side of L-H changed first I seem to remember. My mate departed Col A to furrow the new ground there. 1988 sounds about right. The other side was still a ...

At the merger (1985) the girls houses, as outlined by marty above, continued as they had done at Hertford, with 2nd form through to Grecians in one house. Junior dorm (2nd form - LE) downstairs, seniors (UF - Grecians) upstairs in cubies. LE might have been junior dorm monitors but otherwise Grecian...

“The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is expected to look at boarding schools later this year.” Does anyone know whether this has happened yet? Also a thought has just occurred to me. If CH doesn't want to participate in an inquiry, there might be other options. It can't have functioned ...

I can't say that I was ever abused ... but it does leave me thinking that I was one of many who had a lucky escape. Someone messaged me the same thing, feeling lucky they came out of school not having been abused. It's a low standard. Ofsted fail. The very least my kids come out of (so-called 'bog-...

sejintenej wrote: ↑Sun Jul 15, 2018 2:47 pm b) remember the last government enquiry when it was found (AFAIR) that the suicide was not the fault of overenthusiasticand violent use of punishments by CH masters.

When was this, sejintenej?

I can’t imagining visiting the school again, although I have been dreaming of my CH days every night since the trial started. I visited only once a good few years ago now when you could just wander in outside term time. The sound, smell and sight of the place was very affecting. A massive, holiday-...

I didn't carry on the cello when I left mostly because I'd taken it up fairly late at school and wasn't terribly good at it. I'd played the oboe up to grade 8 but couldnt continue after leaving as it reminded me of being in the band with Rick Slater. I did continue singing though, and met my husband...

Thinking about this idea that children's welfare was different back in the 80s and 90s. 'Safeguarding' as a word wasn't used but the understanding of the damage that sexual abuse did was understood. Childline was set up in 1986, the Cleveland case of child removal was 1987, an updated Children's Act...

Surely a member of the clergy would have a highly developed sense of right and wrong and wouldn't need to be told what to do, irrespective of the cost to them personally? We might expect it but it doesn't necessarily happen. Clergy are only human. Besides, the Diocese of Chichester was well-known f...

bakunin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:21 pm Football is much better.

Football can be beautiful and a wondrous thing to behold.
I ❤ it. Which is just as well as The Boychild plays in a local team and the OH is the new coach
#footballmum #nolifeonasaturdayforme