Title says it all really- I've just taken on 15 year old foster DD, her life's been fairly chaotic for the past year and she's just gone back to school after almost a year as a drop out. She's missed most of the summer term of year 10 and all but the last couple of weeks of year 11 and is sitting her GCSEs this summer. So basically she has a couple of months to try and remedy the situation and get at least half decent grades. Before she was excluded last year she was doing well at school, she's gone back to the same school now and the general feedback from her teachers is that she's always been capable of getting good grades but has always had to work for them. Ie she's not going to be able to remedy the situation completely, but might be able to get some decent grades with a hell of a lot of work.
So DD has two months to cover as much of what she's missed as possible and come out with half-decent grades. [insert stressed emotion] At the same time as getting used to living with someone new, being back in a school environment and generally settling down again after a pretty disruptive year or so.
Intensive studying over easter is going to be the way forward I think. I've ordered her the CGP revision books from amazon and her head of year is sorting out what she needs to catch up with coursework wise ASAP, I'm meeting with her tomorrow. Her subjects are all mostly exam based, with the exception of two heavy coursework subjects which she's dropped because they're just not going to be doable in the time she has.
Any advice/support would be much appreciated.
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Trying to get foster DD (year 11) decent GCSEs after a year out of school
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StephofArc · 25/03/2013 18:08
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