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- gemmygemmerson
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Sweet Monopoly boards this is complicated. Almost as complicated as that whole button/cuff thing that I don't think I will ever come to truly understand. Monitors and House monitors and prefects and senior grecians etc.
Our system at school is ridiculously simple. For each form there is a form captain and a charity representative and a sports representative. In year 9 there are prefects and then senior prefects inside the prefects. In year 11 there are 'Year 11 Ambassadors' and then the school council, who consist of the prefects, the ambassadors and the form captains. In year 13 there is Head girl, head boy, sacristan and then a team of overall prefects including specific prefects for each form group and then each year group. Complicated, No?. Might be, but I think Ch has a far more difficult way, and its going to be hell telling who does what when there aren't badges.
Our system at school is ridiculously simple. For each form there is a form captain and a charity representative and a sports representative. In year 9 there are prefects and then senior prefects inside the prefects. In year 11 there are 'Year 11 Ambassadors' and then the school council, who consist of the prefects, the ambassadors and the form captains. In year 13 there is Head girl, head boy, sacristan and then a team of overall prefects including specific prefects for each form group and then each year group. Complicated, No?. Might be, but I think Ch has a far more difficult way, and its going to be hell telling who does what when there aren't badges.
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- DavebytheSea
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- blondie95
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Gemma, it is a tad confusing but in essence!
Senior Greican (like you head boy/girl)
Second Monitor (deputy to above and generally the other sex to what the seniour grecian is)
Monitors-like prefects, so many in the year
Button Grecians: those who are academically brilliant and are awarded for it on you Greicans (upper 6th) by getting to wear the velvet buttoned cuffs on your housey and longer line of buttons down your housey-which the montiors also have!
Think i have all things covered!
Senior Greican (like you head boy/girl)
Second Monitor (deputy to above and generally the other sex to what the seniour grecian is)
Monitors-like prefects, so many in the year
Button Grecians: those who are academically brilliant and are awarded for it on you Greicans (upper 6th) by getting to wear the velvet buttoned cuffs on your housey and longer line of buttons down your housey-which the montiors also have!
Think i have all things covered!
- DavebytheSea
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You can generally tell which houses are which by noting the sex of those entering and leaving. Usually (but not always), the majority of those going in and out is a good indication of whether it is a girls' house or a boys' house.gemmygemmerson wrote:I've seen that some houses are 'boys' houses and some are 'girls'. Which ones are which, just so I could get a clue of which of the houses I could be allocated?
Of course, this method does not work with the Grecians' residences ....
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- cj
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DBTS, without wishing to divert to the smut thread, did you really mean this? Surely it would be a method more applicable in telling junior and senior pupils apart? Anyway, apart from being expelled for breaking a school rule, you can be arrested for engaging in this sort of voyeuristic behaviour.DavebytheSea wrote:You can generally tell which houses are which by noting the sex of those entering and leaving.
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- DavebytheSea
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Perhaps the word "gender" would have been more appropriate, though for the life of me, I cannot see see how counting boys and girls gives any clear indication of seniority!
It just shows how unnatural it is to separate the .... er .... genders, anyway. At home we all muddle in together - like Grecians.
It just shows how unnatural it is to separate the .... er .... genders, anyway. At home we all muddle in together - like Grecians.
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- gemmygemmerson
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- cj
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Re: Still Angry.
Ditto. I am eternally grateful to David Elliott who saw fit to award me a prize for music in my last term.Vonny wrote:I used to hate prize giving ... - I never got a prize and had to sit through the ceremony listening to the same old names being called out year after year.![]()
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Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.

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Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
- Mrs C.
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Re: Still Angry.
The piskies have struck again!!cj wrote:Ditto. I am eternally grateful to David Elliott who saw fit to award me a prize for music in my last term.Vonny wrote:I used to hate prize giving ... - I never got a prize and had to sit through the ceremony listening to the same old names being called out year after year.![]()
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- Great Plum
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No,J.R. wrote:Not a Charterhouse boy by any chance, Matt ??Great Plum wrote:I think one thing that you will find Gemma is that when you are at uni, you will get those who say you went to a boarding school so you must be posh and those who did go to public schools know about CH and thing you are a 'pauper' - that's what someone from Cranleigh called me...
Cranleigh...
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- J.R.
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Sorry ! My mistake. I was getting Cranleigh and Godalming mixed for some reason.
There IS some posh boarding school on the wildest outskirts of Cranleigh. Prince Michaels ??: King Somebody-or Others ?
I know I've driven past it several times, but you never seem to hear much about it.
There IS some posh boarding school on the wildest outskirts of Cranleigh. Prince Michaels ??: King Somebody-or Others ?
I know I've driven past it several times, but you never seem to hear much about it.
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- J.R.
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Sounds like a certain hostelry garden on a summers afternoon at the end of the summer term, not a million miles from C.H. !!cstegerlewis wrote:The clue is in the name......Cranleigh School![]()
Well known for having several rude parents talking about one's percieved social standing as we thrashed them quite regularly (except the times they thrashed us)
I understand that certain newly married persons were not allowed to sit at certain tables as well.
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- Richard Ruck
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Same in my day - it was always a special pleasure to smash their rugby sides!cstegerlewis wrote:The clue is in the name......Cranleigh School![]()
Well known for having several rude parents talking about one's percieved social standing as we thrashed them quite regularly (except the times they thrashed us)
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Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?
Thee's got'n where thee cassn't back'n, hassn't?