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Christ's Hospital Horsham

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pinkhebe · 11/02/2011 14:15

I've just found out that my son has won a place here, we're very excited and I wondered if anyone elses child goes, I'm already panicing a bit about the boarding bit, so as positive as you can please!

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/02/2011 17:51

who said i " failed to take advantage"?

FluffyMummy123 · 15/02/2011 17:55

oh and welcome to mumsnet Wink

CointreauVersial · 15/02/2011 18:16

Waggytaggy - you may not realise, but the school has changed beyond all recognition since 1985; up until then the girls were at a separate location, and "activities beyond the classroom" were non-existent. All the money and opportunities went to the boys in Horsham, we were at a small city-centre site in Hertford. No theatre, no world-class sports grounds, no trips abroad, no clubs.....

Yes, it was a first class education, but as girls we were always Envy at the opportunities and facilities available in Horsham, and today's pupils benefit from all that.

So iCod's pov is totally valid; she's talking about a very different school than the one you've experienced over the last 10 years.

waggytaggy · 15/02/2011 19:05

CointreauVersial - thank you, I understand your points entirely.

But, iCod is then giving the impression that the school is today as she remembers and describes it >30 years ago. From what you've said, that is quite clearly not the case.

She is quite emphatic in the fact that nothing would make her "send a kid there" - today, not at all refering to the past.

Again, she disparages the marching into meals, which they still do - today. The link with the past, 1553 as iCod refers to it, remains a proud heritage for the school - today. These things she critisises about her time at CH still happen today - so, by implication, are criticisms of the school as it is today.

I suggest these are infact positives, not negatives about school - today, and that is why I contest her postings here.

lockets · 15/02/2011 19:10

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/02/2011 21:02

i do think its a school that dwells excessively on the past and tradition.
its my right to say so.
ONly after YOU have been there can you say. You are a parent - you have only sent your kids away to a kennel experienced it second hand

lockets · 15/02/2011 21:04

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FluffyMummy123 · 15/02/2011 21:09

and then parents say " my kid loves it - she says so"

you dont say.

justabouthappy · 15/02/2011 21:14

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Carikube · 15/02/2011 21:18

I went there too (both Hertford and Horsham) and although I recognise the fact that it gave me opportunities that I wouldn't have had if I had stayed in my home town, I don't think that I could send my children there, regardless of how much it has changed. My Dsis went too and even now umpteen years later, is still scarred by the experience...

NorkyButNice · 15/02/2011 21:21

Ooh Cod, when were you there? You might be classmates with my biological mother!

She left there 30 years ago when she got knocked up by a married man (her education worked well for her obviously).

NorkyButNice · 15/02/2011 21:23

Aaah just re-read, 10 years younger...

feetheart · 15/02/2011 21:33

This is getting a bit like a scary reunion.
God, the wardrobe room - I was the tall one that nothing ever fitted, some things don't change!
When I started I inherited the PE kit of the leaver who had my 'number' before - 2 of us could fit in the blue knickers (and did) Shock

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Anaxagora · 15/02/2011 22:10

I shared a house at university with someone who'd been to Hertford, and met several of her schoolfriends. I got the impression they'd all made the best of the opportunity, but did have the kind of bonding that comes from being thrown together in adversity rather than actual compatibility iyswim.

She had a slightly shuddery horror thing about socks that she used bang on about a lot -- apparently it came from inheriting somebody else's socks via the wardrobe room, and they'd be slightly crunchy. [yuk] They all used to go off on long nostaglic-horror reminiscence trips once they'd had a few drinks.

I wouldn't, tbh, not there or elsewhere. Unless home life was so dreadful that anything else would be an improvement.

Carikube · 15/02/2011 22:12

Ah yes, the yellow socks that went green after a while.... [reminisces wistfully]

CointreauVersial · 15/02/2011 22:27

We are all coming out of the woodwork now!! It's like Friends Reunited.

I have to say, I don't have a sock horror, but don't get me started on the nylon nighties.....

FluffyMummy123 · 16/02/2011 17:44

i was only lolling about susannah Holmes hysteria the other day.
that was funny - if slightly cruel.

having 10 and 11 year olds washing their own pants wasnt it.

Mind you my knowledge of the Bushmen of the Kalahari did me well in a pub quiz recently

justabouthappy · 16/02/2011 18:53

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feetheart · 16/02/2011 21:13

Oh yes, Susannah Holmes, that was me one year!

There was also the mad mid-summer's morning thing. All a bit pagan for such a Christian school.

feetheart · 16/02/2011 21:23

Oh yes, Susannah Holmes, that was me one year!

There was also the mad mid-summer's morning thing. All a bit pagan for such a 'Christian' school.

feetheart · 16/02/2011 21:24

Oops, obviously slightly disturbed by memories of ghosts!

CointreauVersial · 17/02/2011 12:55

Oh iCod. An image of Champo has sprung unbidden into my mind.....

I assume you have never forgotten how to spell MEDITERRANEAN either.

FloreatEtonia · 17/02/2011 15:55

In the nicest possible way I would be very wary putting my child into a school where there is a disproportionate number of children from broken, problem families. But I hope he does well and is very happy although all I ever hear is that bullying is a way of live at that school. :(

FluffyMummy123 · 17/02/2011 15:58

and the Boro of the Amazon basin

roar.
i dont remember thinking the other pupils were particularly damaged or abnormal tbh.

not just nuclear families thats all

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