GCSE Results?

Why is she sitting GCSEs? There are other courses available like BTEC with continuous assessment that might suit her better?

Not 'irreplaceable'. IRRELEVANT. Sodding Autocorrect.

They do it for ALL students, apparently it's the only way to fit it into their timetable to allow them to take 3 optional subjects in Y10/Y11.

If they didn't put her in for GCSE's where she is only expected to get a 'D/E/F' grade, then the next two years of her education would be utterly pointless.

The vocational training courses the school offers are irreplaceable to the occupation she wants to do - DD wants to go to catering college, and the vocational subjects on offer at her school are : Hair & Beauty, Childcare or Mechanics.

So she has no real option to get her onto the course she wants but to sit exams that she will get 'E/F/G' grades in (or even 'U' grades), simply because she will ace her Catering GCSE.

The change to linear exams for her year group has and will REALLY hurt her - she has been taught by the SEN Dept. for the last 3 years how to pass a modular GCSE course, with opportunities for resists to drag her grades up to a 'C/D' grade. The school have now issued new predicted grades for her based on linear exams with no opportunity for resits, and it's a clutch of 'F/G/U's'.

It sucks ARSE.

She has worked her fucking socks off, and now will probably not even meet the criteria of 'C/C/D' for her Catering college.

How the fuck I'm meant to support her if she ends up a NEET because of this I have no fucking clue. I'm a Lone Parent with disabilities that mean I can't work. I'll lose Housing Benefit, her Child Benefit and her CTC. She will have no income, and I'll have no income for her either, and she'll still need fed and clothed.

This blows, big style!

Couthy, that is awful. I don't get why schools do this, it simply is not in the best interests of pupils. A Y9 is never going to get the sort of result in a subject like RE that they might be capable of two years later. Your poor DD. I hope she realises that the school are to blame for her result, not her.

Utterly bonkers, especially as RE is a subject where the extra maturity of a 16 year old would help.

The school has failed your DD, make sure she knows that it's not her fault, that she worked hard and did her best but was simply put at too much of a disadvantage.

why oh why oh why?
what on earth were the school thinking of putting a 13/14 yo child with SN in for an exam where she was only expected to get an F

DD got her results today. NOT GOOD.

She was expecting an 'F', which would be amazing, given her SN's AND the fact that the school makes all DC's sit RE early, this was the end of Y9, not Y11.

She got a 'U'.

She is very disappointed and disheartened.

DDs school give them in the first week of term too.

At DD's school Yr11 go in first then a couple of hours later Yr9&10 go in. it sounds as if your DD will get her results when she returns to school. Hope she's done well.

At DCs school, the y9/10s taking early exams are given the results in the first week of term

I think it depends on the school to be honest. At my daughters' schools, children who sit early can go and collect their results on the GCSE day like every one else. Anyone who doesn't collect them has them posted the following day. Maybe ring or email the school on Tuesday and find out for definite what the situation is?