The chalet school and ofsted?

[thebody]

Aibu to wonder what Ofsted would have made of the Chalet school.? Any fellow chaletians around?

[DizzyHoneyBee]

They would fail spectacularly when it came to safe guarding I expect!

MissAnnersley really needs to contribute to this thread :)

[OOAOML]

MissAnnersley is probably helping Miss Dene forge permission slips going back 5 years, whilst Gaudenz incinerates the accident reports and Matey hides all the castor oil.

[ApplesinmyPocket]

Was never really happy with the 'Show a leg' thing. The image of a dorm with one bare leg sticking out through each bed-curtain always sounded a bit pervy to me. I think Ofsted would see my point.

[thebody]

What I always liked was the fact that as soon as they married all chalet girls immediately have up work to become stepford wives.

Daisy was a top paediatrician but gave it all up for Laurie. All the working women were spinsters but I suppose life was like that once, well for well off women.

Also Eleanor bless her always described any troublesome child as having a silly mother, fathers were always perfect.

[babybythesea]

I would have thought they'd do quite well for provision of extra-curricula activities - Guides and the like.
But yes to insufficient risk assessments, and I also would query ratios of staff to adults - they seemed to manage a lot without the staff really noticing.
Also the practice of punishing one child (Joey) to get at another (Robin) seems dodgy. I'm sure they could have come up with something even for such a fragile wisp of a child.

[Picturesinthefirelight]

They wouldn't cone under ofsted though it would be ISIC

[MissAnnersley]

Ofsted you say?



And for goodness sake, someone keep Jo out of the school until it's over!

[NellyBluth]

God, now I want to read the Chalet School again Anyone read them recently?

I think I used to fancy Jo's doctor bloke. But was he really that much older than her?

[thebody]

You can't keep jo away!!! She's a foundation stone.

Matey mustn't be seen to be holding the noses of juniors though and force feeding them obnoxious medicine.

[kennyp]

didnt pat and isobel o sullivan have a real fire in their study. no mention of a fire guard.

[thebody]

Nelly, I have lots of them and my sister has the whole bloody set.

They are a good read and screamingly dated and not PC.

[purplewithred]

Not available on Kindle

[daisymaybe]

They might have found it alarming that every troublesome girl has a life-changing incident, only learning humility once in a wheelchair/ in the san with pneumonia/ kidnapped by fictional European crown states.

I'm fairly sure that even if they had got a special measures the school could have been kept going by the breeding program. How many chn did Madge have in the end?

[Jingleflobba]

The Chalet School would have been shut down within months of opening if OFSTED had been around!
Can you imagine the amount of CRB checks they would have had to do? People wandering in and out of the school all the time, Joey's Huuuge family all over the place, children running away, students having to escape Nazi's and spies infiltrating the school?
Not to mention the amount of pastoral staff needed to deal with all the children affected by home environments and various orphans.

[Jingleflobba]

Madge had a few children but Joey and Jack had about 12 I think?

[thebody]

Madge had 6 in total as she had twins while in Canada.

Jo had 11 of her own and I think 2 wards/adopted ones. Including the 3 richardsons.

[PurpleTinsel]

The ridiculous number of near fatal accidents would set alarm bells ringing with Ofstead.

And what was all that business with having to have cold baths every morning? I never understood how that was compatible with the bit about how they keep a close eye on the girls health as lots of them have relatives with TB.

[OhYouMerryLittleKitten]

I've got about 3 missing from my set. Would love to ge them but they cost a fortune!

[PurpleTinsel]

Would having the school 'adopt' a penniless Irish orphan be counted as having a social inclusion policy?

[Oodthunkit]

I've got them all in either hardback or GGB. Was aiming for set of unabridged ones.

[PurpleTinsel]

OhYouMerryLittleKitten - Girls Gone By Publishers have been reprinting some of the Chalet School books - they only have a few titles in print at any one time, but it may be worthwhile looking there to see if your missing ones are currently in print? Prices currently around £13 to £16 per book.

[Oodthunkit]

You have to buy them pretty quick from GGB as there is a long wait between publishing runs!