Conditions Have Rarely Been Better For OC Day
Carthusians v Old CarthusiansDate: Saturday 23 September 2017On: Big GroundScore: Lost 0 - 5As the strains of Ramin Djawadi's magnificent 'Game of Thrones Main Title Theme' wafted over a Big Ground...
View ArticleFantastic Result and a Great Performance
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} 1st XI v King’s Chester, ISFA Cup Round One On: Wednesday 27 September...
View ArticleWe Played with Discipline and Verve
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} 1st XI v BradfieldOn: Friday 29 SeptemberVenue: BradfieldScore: Lost 0 -...
View ArticleFull coeducation at Charterhouse
We are delighted to announce that we will be welcoming girls into Year 9 from September 2021.Full coeducation at Charterhouse is an important decision that the Governing Body has taken as part of its...
View ArticleExtinct Birds Fly Again
Neil MacGregor’s History of the World in 100 Objects, based on artefacts in the British Museum and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a series of 15 minute talks, captured the imagination of many people. The...
View Article‘El boom literario latinoamericano’
The Spanish lecture, ‘El boom literario latinoamericano’ by Mr SPM Allen (Teacher of Spanish), was held on Tuesday 26 September. Review by Jonathan Stocks (Year 13):Sixth form pupils of Spanish were...
View Article‘The Science of Boredom’
The Perception Lecture ‘The Science of Boredom’ by Caroline Williams (Feature Editor for the New Scientist, TEDx speaker and author of ‘Override’) was held on Thursday 28 September. Review by Cosima...
View ArticleA Win for U16 Hockey
Review by Peter Wallace (Year 12):A X1 v Sir William Borlaise Grammar School On: Thursday 28 SeptemberVenue: Bisham AbbeyScore: Won 2 - 1This was a tight match in which the U16A Charterhouse team won...
View ArticleA Fantastic Display of Marksmanship
The Cadet Skill at Arms Meeting (CADSAM) for 2017 was held from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 September 2017 at Pirbright Ranges, Alexander Barracks; the home of British Army Phase one recruit...
View ArticlePupil Impresses Foundation
Cosima Graef (Year 13) entered her project on an autonomous robot car to this year’s Mark Evison Foundation Challenge. Cosima has been very interested in robots and this project gave her the...
View ArticleFirst XI Deliver Strong Statement of Intent
Charterhouse 1st XI v Winchester CollegeOn: Tuesday 3 October 2017Venue: Away Score: 7 - 0Oh Charterhouse. How you play with our emotions. The last four games have seen the former FA Cup winners...
View ArticleFirst XI Team Debuts Made
Charterhouse Ist XI v Highgate SchoolOn: Saturday, 7 October 2017Venue: at HomeScore: 5 - 1 The last time there was such a mass movement of pupils coming to Godalming from North London was with William...
View ArticleRequiem Mass for All Souls’
This year, the Requiem Mass for All Souls’ is on Thursday 2 November at 8pm in Memorial Chapel, and sung by The Burczyk Singers. Please come along and join us. The Burczyk Singers is an elite group of...
View ArticleOutstanding Commitment and Teamwork
The Pringle Trophy is the annual competition between all Royal Marine CCF Detachments from schools throughout the UK. Held at the Commando Training Centre in Devon, it is a gruelling 48-hour event that...
View ArticleShakespeare Pastiches to replace Coriolanus
Due to unforeseen and unexpected circumstances, it is not going to be possible to stage Coriolanus on 22, 23 and 24 November. In its place we will perform two comedy Shakespeare pastiches, namely All’s...
View ArticleNetworking Event for Pupils
Friday 15 September saw the first Old Carthusian (OC) and Pupil Networking event. The purpose of these events is for OCs that have left in the last 5 to 10 years to come and talk to Carthusians about...
View ArticleDofE in the Brecon Beacons
Over the Activities Weekend (7 to 8 October), 45 Silver and 5 direct entrant Gold Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) participants completed their practice and training expeditions respectively in the Brecon...
View ArticleFootball Masterclass for Boys from India
At the start of October Charterhouse was delighted to assist Aldro School in hosting 14 boys, aged 10 to14, from the Oscar Foundation in India. The Oscar Foundation (Organization for Social Change,...
View Article‘Language Policy’
The Italian lecture ‘Language Policy’ by Dr Federico Faloppa (University of Reading) was held in October for all IBDP, Italian A pupils. Review by Emma Belletti, Maria Buzzi-Ferraris and Asia Cesa...
View ArticlePupils Visit Brussels
The Economic Specialists (Years 12 and 13) visited Brussels during the first week in the October half term. There was a busy programme of activities which included briefings from senior figures of...
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