Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Note to self : never send emails late at night. Graham, I think you know me well enough to know that I tell it as I see it. I guess it is difficult to convince folk that terrible mistakes made in the past will not be repeated, but I do know the rigour and integrity that is now present at the school...

I have a lot of confidence in Simon Reid and the policies are very reassuring to read. Managing a school of that size and complexity can be no mean feat. I’m certain that if I visited the school now the difference in the welfare and safety of pupils would be indisputable, however I’m not sure that ...

The training is excellent... very thorough.

I really am very heartened by these policies. I couldn't give a fig about the odd spelling mistake or grammatical error. If those are your priorities then go back to your cave. I particularly like the policy on Standards of Pupil Behaviour which states that respect for others and their property mus...

For those who have not discovered the current CH policies online, here is the link:
https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/inf ... -policies/
Some have been updated quite recently.

Talking of sport, oldies among us will remember the athletics track, which was dug up some years ago and turned into a carpark. Now, under a revolutionary plan, the carpark is to be dug up and turned into - would you believe? - an athletics track. That's progress. No wonder the school has to keep a...

Note to self : never send emails late at night. Graham, I think you know me well enough to know that I tell it as I see it. I guess it is difficult to convince folk that terrible mistakes made in the past will not be repeated, but I do know the rigour and integrity that is now present at the school....

:wine: The houses are visited on a random basis by an SLT member on virtually every night of the week. Houseparents undergo appraisal on am annual basis. Grandmother ...eggs? I appreciate the clarification but the snarky comment is totally unnecessary. Harry, you left CH recently therefore you have ...

For heaven's sake. Bullying isn't like smallpox. It doesn't decline as medical science and progressivity increases. Bullying is a function of leadership; poor leadership lets bullying in. Bullying isn't being outmoded as practices change, it just changes itself. CH in the 80s (that I experienced) w...

DazedandConfused wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:56 am Different parenting and different house parenting I guess. No two pupils experiences would be exactly the same whether foundationers or non-foundationers.

How true.
Kind of makes my point clearly about TMF and his Gradgrind view of fact.
Perception? Now there's a thing!

I believe some people on here are referring solely to the children of staff when they use the term Non-Foundationer. To one poster in particular they appear to have been another focus for resentment and/or envy. I realise there is no pleasing some folk, but unless you can step into someone else's sh...

You may speculate, TMF, as is your right, but the "gilded cage" was not the case for all staff children I can assure you. Some of the most cruel verbal bullying was meted out to some children of staff.
You can do untold damage with some of your "speculation".

I knew Tim, but Jeremy better.

Thank you.

Thank you. I note that you were at CH for.just five years. May I ask if that was from 11-16 or from 13-18? It is a pity you found that there was a bullying tone to your years there under David Newsome. I found his first (and my last) three years there to have been thankfully free of that element. I ...