Girl Button Grecians

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:41 pm

Great Plum wrote:
Jude wrote:I was wondering about buttons and male to female ratio - as when I left in 1980 we had already reduced our 350 girls and it had to go to 280 was it? with 800 boys that was a tad unfair! Plus the Horsham Band was teh best etc... and everyone knew about teh Blue coats, so we in Hertford were definately the poorer for not being there.

Can't they allocate both Head boy and Head Girl?? That's whats done in all the otehr schools I know of - Millfield had a system where you were a head boy or girl for one term only - this meant that you didn't loose out on any of the benefits, but also you didn't have the arduous task of a year being really good!!
I've always thought that the best boy or girl should get the top job, regardless of sex...

One wonders if this could not have been worded with more care, Matt !

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:39 pm

J.R. wrote:
Great Plum wrote:
Jude wrote:I was wondering about buttons and male to female ratio - as when I left in 1980 we had already reduced our 350 girls and it had to go to 280 was it? with 800 boys that was a tad unfair! Plus the Horsham Band was teh best etc... and everyone knew about teh Blue coats, so we in Hertford were definately the poorer for not being there.

Can't they allocate both Head boy and Head Girl?? That's whats done in all the otehr schools I know of - Millfield had a system where you were a head boy or girl for one term only - this meant that you didn't loose out on any of the benefits, but also you didn't have the arduous task of a year being really good!!
I've always thought that the best boy or girl should get the top job, regardless of sex...
One wonders if this could not have been worded with more care, Matt !

Hmm, perhaps...

BTaylor · Post by **BTaylor** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:39 pm

Great Plum wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Great Plum wrote: I've always thought that the best boy or girl should get the top job, regardless of sex...
One wonders if this could not have been worded with more care, Matt !
Hmm, perhaps...

One wonders if one is reading more into it that is strictly necessary...

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:05 pm

Please note that I refrained, with admirable restraint, from commenting on said post.... but it took an effort !

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:11 pm

Euterpe13 wrote:Please note that I refrained, with admirable restraint, from commenting on said post.... but it took an effort !

You took the words out of my mouth - or should that be off my keyboard?

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:29 am

Katharine wrote:
Jude wrote:I was wondering about buttons and male to female ratio - as when I left in 1980 we had already reduced our 350 girls and it had to go to 280 was it? with 800 boys that was a tad unfair! Plus the Horsham Band was teh best etc... and everyone knew about teh Blue coats, so we in Hertford were definately the poorer for not being there.

Can't they allocate both Head boy and Head Girl?? That's whats done in all the otehr schools I know of - Millfield had a system where you were a head boy or girl for one term only - this meant that you didn't loose out on any of the benefits, but also you didn't have the arduous task of a year being really good!!
Jude, we were never as many as 350. 8 houses with 36 in each gave 288, when the extra six places in the Flat came in that went to 294.

Katharine, we were up at 5.40 before I left , I think because of the move to Horsham, they took in a lot more younger girls as teh older ones were leaving and 5th formers were also leaving - I'm sure we were over 300, I stand to be corrected, but in 75, I was teh first 5.38, and was the last number for a while, then I got superceeded!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:31 pm

I am not sure where everyone slept then.

First floor dorm could hold 18, second floor cubies, 16 and two rooms 2nd floor front another 4, that makes 38 max.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:33 pm

we have already discussed the fact that each house seemed to have a difference in dorms - in 5's we seemed to have had more space than in 2's - perhaps this is because it used to be a junior house and had to hold more?

midget · Post by **midget** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:48 pm

Jude wrote:we have already discussed the fact that each house seemed to have a difference in dorms - in 5's we seemed to have had more space than in 2's - perhaps this is because it used to be a junior house and had to hold more?

36 in each house, regardless of whether junior or senior. There were 8 bed spaces each side in 2 dorms, plus one room for 3 and a single room. 1944 was a very long time ago(!), but I think the 2 fireplace spaces were also used in 1's and 5's (juniors) because I can't imagine them allowing 3/4 11 yr olds to share. One of the rooms on the top floor was used for the asistant house-mistress (and we had a couple of strange ones during my year in 1's)

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:17 am

midget wrote:
Jude wrote:we have already discussed the fact that each house seemed to have a difference in dorms - in 5's we seemed to have had more space than in 2's - perhaps this is because it used to be a junior house and had to hold more?
36 in each house, regardless of whether junior or senior. There were 8 bed spaces each side in 2 dorms, plus one room for 3 and a single room. 1944 was a very long time ago(!), but I think the 2 fireplace spaces were also used in 1's and 5's (juniors) because I can't imagine them allowing 3/4 11 yr olds to share. One of the rooms on the top floor was used for the asistant house-mistress (and we had a couple of strange ones during my year in 1's)

Sorry Midget things got changed - we had no dep house mistress who lived in.. we had 18 in lower dorm, then upstairs we had over teh housemistresses flat a dorm for 5, nexxt to that (near the glass paned loos) a dorm for 2, the head of house had a single over our linnen cupboard then the cubies took 2 each with 6 each side :
18+5+2+12+1 - 38 min - in 5's

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:06 pm

Jude wrote:the cubies took 2 each with 6 each side :

Are you sure there were 6 each side in 5's? We had 4 each side in 2's so 8 cubies in all holding 16 girls.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:17 am

Vonny wrote:
Jude wrote:the cubies took 2 each with 6 each side :
Are you sure there were 6 each side in 5's? We had 4 each side in 2's so 8 cubies in all holding 16 girls.

Vonny you are right - 8 cubies holding 2 girls each!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:14 pm

Jude wrote:
Vonny wrote:
Jude wrote:the cubies took 2 each with 6 each side :
Are you sure there were 6 each side in 5's? We had 4 each side in 2's so 8 cubies in all holding 16 girls.
Vonny you are right - 8 cubies holding 2 girls each!

Aren't they Nationals from Cuba, Jude ??????

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:46 pm

J.R. wrote:
Jude wrote:
Vonny wrote: Are you sure there were 6 each side in 5's? We had 4 each side in 2's so 8 cubies in all holding 16 girls.
Vonny you are right - 8 cubies holding 2 girls each!
Aren't they Nationals from Cuba, Jude ??????

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:42 am

why me? why is it JR that you always have a go at me? Can it be that we have similar initials? Mine being JRC?

no. they were girls like us.