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Christ's Hospital
Secondary · Independent · Horsham
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Do NOT recommend
Absolutely awful. From the outside looks like the dream. In reality my daughter went from a confident outgoing character to a lost soul with no self esteem. I strongly recommend you look elsewhere.
Happy times.
I went from 1959- 1965 it had high and lows but overall positive. I am proud to tell people that I went and enjoyed the tradition it imbued in me.
Awesome school
Great school with great facilities. The experience was mind blowing, with the details of the pupils results and general wellbeing. CH offers complete education.
The sad truth about Christ's Hospital school
This review is for parents considering applying for a place at Christ's Hospital school, Horsham. Please, please, please be extremely mindful of registering your child/ren in that establishment. Make an informed decision. The buildings and facilities may dazzle you but, as an insider, you would be horrified how this institution functions. The staff will only offer lip service with very little or no action. They don't want to hear the truth. If you sincerely love your child/ren, you ought to try before you buy. Their taster day is misrepresentative. The daily bullying, due to hugely and unthinkably disadvantaged children attending CH, is rife. Sadly, the majority of these children lower the standards and are so detrimental to the minority who wants to learn. You only need to sit on the train at Christ's Hospital train station every 3 weeks from the start of the term or at the end of term to see, hear and feel what it's really like inside that school. You would be mortified. The children hit one another, swear at one another, are abusive to one another and much worse such as sexual abuse..... They're so loud, ill-mannered, uncivilised and inconsiderate - scary! That's when you'll understand that the inadequate population which frequents CH doesn't match your own values or expectations. You'd never dream that this happens at CH - but it does. If you think CH will change your child, 100% they will - but only for the worse - mark my words. In Horsham, it's local knowledge that it's a dreadfully bad school. If you're not a local,
you get caught out. Psychologically, they'll ruin your child/ren life. CH is not a place where they allow a child/ren to express themselves freely. They only do things their way. Beware of all the misleading publicity you see online about CH. They paint such a false picture of the place and people. Don't let marketing blind you. For the love of your child/ren, think very carefully before you commit yourself to sending them there. You'll get zero value for your money - only heartache.
This is a genuine review from an insider.
Best of luck to you & your child/ren.
you get caught out. Psychologically, they'll ruin your child/ren life. CH is not a place where they allow a child/ren to express themselves freely. They only do things their way. Beware of all the misleading publicity you see online about CH. They paint such a false picture of the place and people. Don't let marketing blind you. For the love of your child/ren, think very carefully before you commit yourself to sending them there. You'll get zero value for your money - only heartache.
This is a genuine review from an insider.
Best of luck to you & your child/ren.
Avoid at all cost
One of the worse school I have gone to. Far away from town, bad teaching quality sometimes the student know more than the teacher. Treating students like they are nine, so many regulations and minimum academic support, focus too much on equality and too little on careers planning or important things in life. Avoid this school at all cost. A big school though with beautiful scenary but will not be the school you would like to come.
Don’t go here.
My mental health was never so bad as when I was at this school. It is prison-like, and I know for a fact that a huge portion of my year group agreed, and have only bad things to say about the school now. I would discourage anyone from considering this school.
Total institutions screw you up
This is a "total institution". Stuck away in the countryside out of the way of parents and carers. Other "total institutions" include the monastery, the military barracks and the madhouse. All of these remove you from real life and give you a warped view of life when you emerge into the real world. No other country in developed Europe seems to need them. In our country they produce disastrous leaders like David Cameron, George Osborne, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Rishi Sunack and Jacob Rees-Mogg (and not forgetting Nigel Farage). Leftovers from the days when we had an empire. They screw you up intellectually, emotionally and sexually. Why are they not abolished ? Because too many senior politicians send their children to them. The British class system dies hard.
Choose wisely
I don’t think words can express my resentment towards my parents for sending me here and then making me stay for sixth form. Start basic: the food is barely edible, I often get food poisoning when I eat here, and an unhealthy relationship with food is heavily promoted, especially in girls houses, being forced to eat more at lunch and then being shamed for eating your own tuck - I often had this taken away from me (biscuits, crisps, granola bars etc.) despite my parents paying for it. As a day pupil here, if you do anything outside of lessons and minimum amount of sporting actives, you will find yourself being here a minimum of 12 hours a day. I find that I often have four double periods in a day, then a two hour active, followed by two music or drama commitments. At this point it’s 7-9pm and I got here at 7:30am, I have 3 pieces of A level prep for the next day and I’m incredibly tired because I haven’t stopped all day. I can’t sleep at night because of how stressed I am and all I’m ever told is that nothing I’m doing is enough. Staff bullying occurs more than you’d think, the only good teachers leave after a few years when they realise what the school is really like. This is indeed a school like no other, but in the worst way imaginable. If your only passion in life is wanting to go to medical school and you will do nothing but study in every available second, great. If you want to have a life, choose wisely. I don’t enjoy my life, I’m barely scraping through, and all the school cares about is the whether or not my grades will reflect well on them, because if they don’t, they can’t put them up on their precious little website. For a small number of people, this will be the best thing to happen to them, and I appreciate that. However, for most, this school will break them.
Amazing place
Music department is AMAZING! The band is iconic. The food is iffy, usually awful especially for veggies and vegans. Overall it’s a good school :D
Overrated
Nice community (sometimes), food is inconsistent (mostly bad) with certain catering staff often rude to students, teaching is decent, some departments close to being a shambles. Very little independence and freedom here, would definitely not recommend for sixth form at the very least. Classic boarding school bullying occasionally takes place.
The best school
Amazing place, beautiful grounds, great food, good teachers, would definitely recommend
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