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I know this is a slight deviation of the current topic but I don't know whether we have to pay for the exams taken because in some schools parents have to pay separately for exam costs. Is this the same at ch?


Note to Josh!. If you see this before you get on msn or before 6pm etc Please sort out your Facebook!. It seems to have gone missing.

gemmygemmerson wrote:I know this is a slight deviation of the current topic but I don't know whether we have to pay for the exams taken because in some schools parents have to pay separately for exam costs. Is this the same at ch?


Note to Josh!. If you see this before you get on msn or before 6pm etc Please sort out your Facebook!. It seems to have gone missing.

1 In my day the school paid if they thought you would pass (there were no grades in those days) but parents paid if the school thought you had no chance.

2. Facebook owner/boss is in court facing charges of having nicked the concepts from another company; it could have been closed down.

David

sejintenej wrote:1 In my day the school paid if they thought you would pass (there were no grades in those days) but parents paid if the school thought you had no chance.

Mainly true for Hertford - unless the school was making an experiment. I was one of the first group to try for Oxford from the second year in the VI form. We were definitely told that the school would pay, unless we got it, in which case our parents would be expected to pay.

Presumably that means my parents did pay the second time I tried - although it was very much the 'expected thing' for me to try.

Facebook closed down... there will be riots!

gemmygemmerson wrote:I know this is a slight deviation of the current topic but I don't know whether we have to pay for the exams taken because in some schools parents have to pay separately for exam costs. Is this the same at ch?


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You only pay for exams if you fail to turn up without valid reason, or if you`re re-sitting.

Don't panic, dear. My profile was under maintainance by Facebook - it's working now (AFAIK). And in response to your other question? Hmmm. I don't think so, no. Only retakes. Again, AFAIK. And re. sports: don't worry, we do loads of rock climbing in Sprouts.

EDIT: Mrs. C knows more than I do. Don't listen to me. *shuts up*

Eruresto wrote:Don't panic, dear. My profile was under maintainance by Facebook - it's working now (AFAIK). And in response to your other question? Hmmm. I don't think so, no. Only retakes. Again, AFAIK. And re. sports: don't worry, we do loads of rock climbing in Sprouts.

But only when it's windy ???

Hmmm....

I got more name labels!. I ran out


* goes back to sewing *

'S funny, but I'm desperately trying to recall sewing all those labels in my kit, but it just won't come back to me... must have been the elves!

Ajarn Philip wrote:'S funny, but I'm desperately trying to recall sewing all those labels in my kit, but it just won't come back to me... must have been the elves!

Did you have a Mum to do it? I did it when my two went off to boarding school - they were 8 at the time not full grown like Gemma!

Or, was it like Hertford where you had very little of your own property at school? Somewhere we have listed what we took but apart from indoor shoes, hockey boots etc the only things I can think off needing name tapes were swimming costumes and suspender belts (sorry to bring up the stokings again )

Mum...? No... surely not. She was the one that rubbed all that brycreem in my hair, dosed me with Milk of Magnesia and cod liver oil, shoved tissues up my nose and spanked my bottom. Don't remember her sewing...

BTW, is it just my overly vivid imagination, or were our long yellow socks not officially called stockings...?

I never sewed any labels on STOKINGS...HAHA. Nor did my mother.....though I think that all those years ago, yes, I was roped in to help label Bible, hymn book, prayer book, gymn shoes, slippers, suspender belt (and other more intimate items, I seem to recall?) - and of course the three books per term which we were allowed to take back provided they passed the House Mistress' scrutiny. I have so many books, still, bearing the pencil or biro marks of a large tick and then 'CW' (Cecilia Winstone). Which makes me wonder how others managed to smuggle back Lady Chatterley's Lover, in a plain brown wrapper, without their House Mistress knowing. I would never have DARED.. though I was happy to look at the book (and wonder what the words meant....) when it came my way!

I think it was "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" 6/7 years later, courtesy of Gill Barrett.

Now what was THAT all about?

When I got my BA I spent wet afternoons in the library reading robert Graves 'Greek Myths', far more sex in that book than anything banned.

(I have CMW in my copy of "The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe".)

You are right Mary.. It was C 'M' W - I knew I had got that wrong as soon as I pressed 'send'! Did the 'M' stand for 'Mary'?