A Glossary of some Charterhouse Terms

ADSUM	A roll-call, taken in House (see also JIBS).
BANCO	An evening period for academic work: First Banco: 6.30 - 7.30 pm; Second Banco: 8.00 - 9.00pm
BEAK	A member of the teaching staff.
BROOKE HALL	The teaching staff’s Common Room.
BTT	The Ben Travers Theatre on Queen's Drive, opened in 1983, and named after the playwright who was an Old Carthusian.
CALLING OVER	An assembly, usually three times a Quarter, of each form in the Under School, at which its performance in school is reported to the Master of the Under School by the Form Master.
CHAPEL	There are three chapels in the School: Memorial Chapel built as a memorial to Old Carthusians who were killed in the First World War, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and consecrated in 1927; Founder's Chapel (FC), constructed from part of the original chapel, which is approached from the east end of the South African Cloisters; The Millennium Chapel (MMC) is situated in the north-east corner of the Memorial Chapel and was consecrated in 2000.
CROWN	The School tuckshop. It is situated on the Long Walk facing under Green. It is also sometimes referred to as "Crack".
EXEAT	Half term break in the middle of each Quarter when all pupils go away from Charterhouse. Exeat in LQ is known as 'Queen's Exeat'.
FATHERS	Every new pupil is allotted a "father" (usually only slightly senior to him) to show him the ropes.
HASH	A lesson.
HOMEBILL	The pupils' evening meal.
JDTC	The John Derry Technical Centre, situated between Studio and Armoury and opened in 1980. John Derry (the first British pilot to fly faster than sound) was an Old Carthusian.
JIBS	Evening adsum in Houses.
PONTIFEX	The annual inter-House cross-country races held in LQ.
QUARTER	Terms are referred to as Quarters. There are three Quarters in the School year - Oration (September), Long (January) and Cricket (April). 'quarter' refers to the mid-morning break, which is normally after the first two school lessons (hashes).
RVW	Music School situated on the south side of Memorial Chapel and opened in 1984, in memory of Ralph Vaughan Williams who was an Old Carthusian.
SEND-UP	When a pupil in the Under School does a piece of work that a Beak considers distinguished he is sent with his work and a sending-up card to the Deputy Headmaster. For every third sent-up copy he/she is awarded a prize.
TICS	See TURNING-UP.
TURNING-UP	The general term for inter-House games which are organised on a league basis.
YEARLINGS	Boys in their first year in the School.