History Literature / ChaletSchool

* ''Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}}'' has "The Story of Fidgety Philip", who swings on his chair at dinner time; and when his chair falls over, he catches at the table cloth, pulling the cloth and the entire contents of the table with him.

" ''Literature/MrMen'': While eating his supper, Mr. Clumsy leans back on his chair, and falls. Whoops!

* Downplayed in ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five on a Hike Together'', in that the chair falls, but not the person in it. Dick and Anne walk in on an old woman sitting in her home, who is completely deaf. She does not see them until Dick has walked right up to her; and then she leaps up in such a fright, that her chair falls over with a bang.

* NunsNRosaries: Several prominent characters, such as the Maynards (after Joey converts in order to marry Jack), Frieda, Marie and Miss Wilson, are Catholics, and Luigia di Ferrara, the Robin and [[spoiler: Margot]] all become nuns. [[spoiler:Jack's rosary is what enables Fiona to discover that he is alive in ''Highland Twins''.]] TruthInTelevision as the Tyrol was a very Catholic area at the time of writing. See RealLifeWritesThePlot too.
** NunTooHoly: [[spoiler: Margot]] in ''The Chalet Girls Grow Up'', to the point where the order basically kick her out because her outspokenness and political activism make her a risk.

* SchoolFestival: Although the Chalet School is based in Europe and not Japan, the Sale of Work is a school festival of sorts, as it's a chance for the girls to show off their talents and raise money for the Sanatorium. Different forms run different stalls, although sometimes the age groups are mixed up, and the sales always have a theme, from fairy tales in ''Lintons'' and ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' in ''Tom Tackles'' to a Spanish sale in ''Jane'' and a sale based around the seasons in ''Prefects''. As well as textiles, bric-a-brac, produce, baked goods and toys, the sales often have competitions, including one involving the pièce de resistance, a dolls' house created by Tom Gay (from ''Tom Tackles'' onwards), and other attractions such as games (clock golf is a popular one for the dads) or the Peri's Cave in the Fairy Tale Sale in ''Lintons''.

* SchoolFestival: Although the Chalet School is based in Europe and not Japan, the Sale of Work is a school festival of sorts, as it's a chance for the girls to show off their talents and raise money for the Sanatorium. Different forms run different stalls, although sometimes the age groups are mixed up, and the sales always have a theme, from fairy tales in ''Lintons'' and ''[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]'' in ''Tom Tackles'' to a Spanish sale in ''Jane'' and a sale based around the seasons in ''Prefects''. As well as textiles, bric-a-brac, produce, baked goods and toys, the sales often have competitions, including one involving the pièce de resistance, a dolls' house created by Tom Gay (from ''Tom Tackles'' onwards), and other attractions such as games (clock golf is a popular one for the dads) or the Peri's Cave in the Fairy Tale Sale in ''Lintons''.

A series of books by British novellist Elinor Brent-Dyer. Set in a {{boarding school}} for girls in Austria, Guernsey, Wales and finally Switzerland, as the Nazis spread across Europe.

* MessyHair: Ted Grantley has very thick black hair that keeps getting in her face, as well as BigOlEyebrows. {{Hypocrite Joey}} - who herself had very messy hair as a child - charmingly calls her a 'little freak' because of it, while Miss Annersley shows her a way of keeping her hair out of her face. She later gets it cut.

* MessyHair: Ted Grantley has very thick black hair that keeps getting in her face, as well as BigOlEyebrows. {{Hypocrite}}/Joey - who herself had very messy hair as a child - charmingly calls her a 'little freak' because of it, while Miss Annersley shows her a way of keeping her hair out of her face. She later gets it cut.

* MessyHair: Ted Grantley has very thick black hair that keeps getting in her face, as well as BigOlEyebrows. {{Hypocrite/Joey}} - who herself had very messy hair as a child - charmingly calls her a 'little freak' because of it, while Miss Annersley shows her a way of keeping her hair out of her face. She later gets it cut.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: There's plenty of it throughout the series, from Joey falling down a pit in ''Camp'' to the blindfold race in ''Coming of Age'' and Len getting covered in paint in ''Althea''.

* BrattyHalfPint, multiple characters start off as this before growing up, such as Sybil Russell. One of the worst examples in the series is Win Everett in ''Wins the Trick'', who gets lost *three times* in one book after wandering away from either her sisters or Rösli when she's babysitting Win, and continuous to hate the Chalet School long after her big sister Audrey gets over her grudge.

Madge Bettany and her {{ill girl}} sister, Joey, are faced with poverty when their brother Dick takes a new job in India. Madge decides that a finishing school for girls, in Austria, will be the best cure for their money woes and for Joey's health. Starting with a small number of students in the eponymous Chalet, the school teaches in English, French and German. Could very well be a {{trope codifier}} for the {{boarding school}} series.

* IllGirl: Joey Bettany, often. The Robin is one - EBD likes to describe her as 'delicate' - and Stacie Benson becomes one after a nasty accident on an excursion, although she gets better. As the Chalet School has close links with the sanatorium, several of its IllGirl pupils are sent there.

** In ''Jo To The Rescue'', we meet Zephyr Burthill, a spoiled brat who covets IllGirl Phoebe Wychcote's cello, since Phoebe can't play it due to illness and Zephyr is a talented musician herself. She's so desperate to get her hands on it, her father sends some thugs to the house where Joey and co are staying to try and steal it. She's used to getting everything she wants and resorts to begging Simone on her knees to get it for her. Joey overhears and tells her where to get off. Of course, after she's introduced to [[MoralityPet the Robin]], she sees the error of her ways and [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]].

* NamesTheSame: There are two science teachers called Miss Armitage, one in the war/St Briavels years and one in the Swiss years. [=EBD=] explains at one point that the first Miss Armitage was called Cicely, and when she left to get married, her cousin Vida - who is also a science teacher - replaced her.

** Elma Conroy and her friends smoke while playing cards on a Sunday in ''The Chalet School in the Oberland''. Miss Norton, who catches them, is more upset about the cards than the smoking.