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DS “ induction” week starts 1st, in Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. 🤷‍♀️after that. He has his bloody English resit stuff, tho, too.

@swampwitch0@SuperTrooper1111and many others! Do you know where @QueenMabbyhas set up camp, next?? 🙀! I just had the catch up scanning, deciding what to write, then the “Noooooo!!! It’s got to a 1000!!”!
How the hell did THAT happen?! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Oh, I’m so happy to hear that…….💕!

I’m trying to get DS18 to give me his list of stuff he needs for Edinburgh.. he is so annoyingly last minute. It’s a real shame he goes up on Friday 5th September, and DS first lesson on the 8th. At least his induction starts on the 1st, so there is that!

Good plan on the allowance. At the minute, it’s very “ drip feed” as he really doesn’t go out much. But, I do fear the “ Mum! Can I have £x for “Costa equivalent/ canteen”! Love you”!!! 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️😈😹…..

Dds friend is doing a PA btec at a different college and thats Monday- Thursday

Only 3 days a week...

Although the kids we met on the open day all said they go in 5 days a week because it's fun.

How many days are people in?
From a friend whose DS is on same course as my DS, it seems to be three days.
No timetable yet but think he starts Thursday next week.

Dd loves coffee shops, bakeries and noodles 🍜
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@TeenToTwenties
Dd works 1 day a week and would like to continue so she can use that for fripperies 😃

@Sisublondie
Thank you for asking...she's much more like her old self 💕
Getting a bit antsy wrt job searching, but she's agreed to hold off until next month/October after she sees the university careers person.
We will get dd an annual transport pass.
Then we are going to add a bit more to her monthly allowance for college canteen/going out for lunch.

We gave DD1 'college money' that would stop if she dropped out to cover meals and extras but she could save money by taking food from home. It was same monthly whether she was in college 5 weeks or 1 that month.

Dd2 (MH, ehcp) hasn't felt up to managing this herself so I just load onto her college account when it runs low, as per school.

You, or DD?! Or, both?! Guessing you must live in a bigger place than me, if your old DD went to a college in other direction! Mind you, DS’s college is not in our town, we only have a school with a Sixth Form, so I guess there are three nearest Colleges, two in towns, one in the nearest City.

How is older DD doing at the moment? 🤞🙏good, I hope z

I hadn’t thought of that!!! There is a bloody Gail’s within two minutes walk of his new Campus….. 🤔🙄🤦‍♀️….he’s never been there before… he is prone to a baked treat…
oh, where to start?! Go in with a weekly amount?! DH is very tight ( sorry! “ careful”! Of the “ why don’t you take a packed lunch to Alton Towers” type!! 🙀😹!).

How’s your “ negotiations” going?! 🤷‍♀️🤞🙏?!

😤… I’ve just written a long one to you! I came back inside to check I had WiFi to send, it’s been “ trying” to post for about half an hour and, nope! Not posted and just disappeared! ( I usually screen shot long ones in case that happens, so I can rem what I’ve said….but, guess what?!😹)

Anyway! It was predominantly about finding out how your sinus infection is ( 🤧.. I am wishing you all the luck 🍀 in the world… had it once at Uni… felt like my head was a cannonball that was so painful I would have begged someone to chop it off🙀).., so I’m hoping thst you feel way better for enrolment tomorrow.

Yes, I went to a rubbish school, too. Careers advice was with a disinterested Liverpool fan ( I’m originally from that neck of the woods) pissed off about crap game at the weekend, eating a sarnie out of his Tupperware box, squashed in a store cupboard near the gym. I didn’t particularly excel at anything, wanted to do Law, so the obvious choice was Maths, Chemistry and Biology 🧪. Obviously! I think I got a C in Maths, and the leap between GCSE and A Level was breathtaking. I had no idea from the get go. I simply cannot imagine what you went through, with undiagnosed dyscalcula! It’s shocking that that was missed throughout your schooling! Especially as your other subject results were amazing!!!

Ah yes, I echo you on what you have not used, Maths wise, Pythagorus?! Not once! I can add things quite quickly in my head, and by jotting down stuff if I need to work things out quickly at work and/ or WiFi is glitchy, the essentials basically! I am so thankful DS passed that horror show. But, the thought of redo English?! The Functional Skills sounds dream like, in comparison! It’s upsetting, too, as DS got a 3!! Which is good for him! And still a bloody pass ( although, obviously not recognised as such 🤯!)..

Anyhooo, I hope your sinuses are feeling a bit better! 🤞😻

We are currently "negotiating" with dd over her allowance 😬😅

My DD enrolls later this week. She can’t wait to get started and make some new friends but it’s nerve racking. I think I’ll feel like she’s in reception all over again until I know she’s had a good first day.

Hey! Sorry, I reread mine, that was my bad grammar! I meant ( in my head!), your DD to do as you said, the Level 2 for the first year, then onto the two year Level 3!, not leave after it.. 🙄! Wow, ok, it’s really interesting she’s thinking forward like that! How fantastic if she goes on to do that ..( but, also any other path she may wish to take)..
That would certainly fit in, as you say, with the recent chat about the “ three years behind”… 🤔😺

DS is much chirpier today, thanks. I’m outside with my fractured wrist attempting to sort one of my indoor plants out, and he popped out ( never does!) saying he was bored (again, very rare!) . Excellent, I thought. Rope him in, but before I knew it, DH had offered MCD so, funny old thing! Off they went!!!

How’s your DD today, still excited?!

@Sisublondie
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DD ditched the Javelin for Bright Lights, Big City?! 🤷‍♀️😈😻😹!! …… ( mine usually autocorrects to my usual chat! Hence, I asked my lovely Mum on Saturday night if she’d had a lovely “Shitty Shitty Bang Bang!”time with her friends!!)..

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@sunnywolfie
Only what I've been told.
Post 16 provision seems to be in free fall where I live 😔

Someone's pulling your leg...or they're doing Functional Skills within the course? Funding depends on students working towards a Level 2 (if they don't yet have one)

Hope your DD thrives @chunkybear my youngest also autistic fell out of school in year 8 and has been doing a creative imedia OCR games design course via distance learning and is really good at it so I’m hoping that if she can get her GCSE’s over the next 2 years the a BTEC in a similar subject would be amazing for her and give her the opportunity to integrate back into ms education.

Thank you @timesaretough, that's so encouraging to hear! I'm 100% certain my DD is going to thrive so much more doing a BTech than she ever would have doing A-Levels.

Very best wishes to your dd @chunkybear

So many more people on this thread than when DD1 started her BTEC 10 years ago!

My ND/ASD DD16 just got good enough grades for the BTEC in Games Art she wants to do, all very exciting. She’s actually not been learning g in school since year 8 due to ASD crisis and rebuilding her world, and is so looking forward to college, they have a quiet room for ND kids which is on the same floor as her study rooms and it’ll be 3 contact days a week so not too overwhelming for her … she’s even talking about university now which was a definite ‘not a
chqnce’ for the last few years as far as she was concerned - I can’t wait for her to dip a toe back into the world again as she’s been so hidden away, her choice, but can’t deal with lots of noise and busy places as she gets overwhelmed so easily - but she’s managed to understand herself a lot more over these past 3.5 years so thinks she can cope with the help of the EHCP and the quiet room - good luck all those with kids making the next step, and also let those kids who need re-sit know that they can still achieve, I did terribly in my GCSEs and now have a degree and PhD in science and have worked in research for
many years ❤️💕