Countdown to exam results. Anyone else feeling anxious?

Dd wants to go on her own to get her results so we will both be at work desperately waiting for a phone call! I don't even know if I will be able to take the call when she rings - aaargh!

No treats planned here (although we may have to come up with something) and certainly don't pay per grade etc. Success should be its own reward!

Beginning to get nervous now! DD seems calm and not bovvered. Hoping for some As but know she's failed IT as she never finished the work. Sigh. No rewards plan but said I'd pay for to go out for a meal with boyfriend. Didn't set a qualifying level so I guess she gets meal whatever.

I want her to do well but need to not be sniffy if she doesn't. Somehow!

The information should be on school website. Schools don't have a standard time. Ours is 10am. I'm always more nervous about GCSE results.

Have no idea what time to go there on Thursday! Have checked my emails and not found any info on times! Is there a standard time to go in?

Oh, I am a sod for the old close eye

Kite Runner and Dorian Gray are the ones she has to read - which is pretty standard too, from what I gather.

Oops sorry - reading quickly! Yup that is bloody awful. I still don't like them though.
If they have a departmental secretary in English they are very lucky! We don't - I'd keep a close eye on them.

I have no problem with the texts themselves, englishteacher, just the mis-spellings of the authors' names!

No David Walliams, Russians - quite a small-scale production at a local agricultural college (touring, but there ATM). I kept expecting to see Pip Archer round every corner...

Both Brideshead and TMOTF have been A level set texts in the past and are therefore on most recommended reading lists for A Level lit students. I'm not fond of either but they are on our suggested summer reading list.

Such a shame it wasn't The Tempest! Was that the one with David Walliams?

We went to see Midsummer Night's Dream outside yesterday (next time I'll be taking at least one blanket... because dd had a letter from the English department outlining set texts and recommended reading, and saying they should see a Shakespeare play. (Am trying to ignore my misgivings that it also listed TMOTF by George ElLiot, and Brideshead Revisted by 'Evalan Waugh', and hoping it just got sent via a non-literary oriented secretary .)

We all enjoyed it, but the first thing she said this morning was 'I know what I forgot to say about the play - why was Puck wearing that fanny pack??'.

Better than glitter and briefer-than-briefs, I suppose...

Nit - DD1 is going to see Richard II at the barbican in the autumn without her sibs. So if she wants to view that as an exams reward (unlikely to be applicable though :( ) then I suppose that's up to her but realistically I'm not going to sell her ticket if things have gone tits up. And we both know she is going as an excuse for me to go, anyway!

Remembering now, Dd did one GCSE last year, and I took her for lunch and asked if there was anything she especially wanted that it would be a good time to treat her to, and she wanted some jeans, so I did. Will prob do something like that again, I guess.

So no-one's planning any big-wow rewards then? That makes me feel reassured!

Mine don't get anything. We never have, but we took them out for a meal when they had finished their exams.
DD got AS results last week and is now trying to sort out universities and personal statements. I think she was too scared to really think about it before.
DS gets GCSE results on Thursday, so a bit more angst here!

DD1 would never ask for or expect monetary reward for exam success. She, unlike my other two DC, has an appreciation of What Stuff Costs.

yes, I've always balked at the £10-per-A type reward, but then I wonder whether mine might feel short-changed if their friends' parents do things like that... Assuming they get any, of course!

We don't have a reward policy as such, but after good reports etc have always been for a really nice meal out and toasted their hard work. This has carried on to bigger exams too. Personally, I don't believe in 'bribes' for exam results, as lots seem to do. I think they have to learn to work hard for themselves, and great results are the best reward they can get. But that's just me! . Interested to see what others do though.

Silly woman... Hope you enjoy the play!

Nit - no. Well, maybe modules. Someone we know from primary school. Their child is Y10 like DD1. Maybe some people wouldn't find a broken writing hand and a bashed in face a problem. Perhaps we are just wimps!

Nothing planned for Thursday at all. But it's been a summer of events - right now DD1 and I are on a train to London, we're seeing private lives this evening. We took a policy decision at the start of the year, because we knew for definite there were two big ticket whole family events in the offing - that this year nobody would get birthday or Xmas pressies but we'd go for the two known things (and we luckily got tickets for both. So exciting) and do a few other shows as well. The idea was it would give everyone lots to look forward to and we have no more space for tat. It's worked really well. I'm not looking beyond the still to come treats to be honest - DD1 has been v lucky in that respect and basically we've spent the treat budget!

Did the person insinuating that also have a child awaiting results, Russians? Annoying, anyway..

I think both mine have a touch of the Lawries on occasion (tightness with money and not really believing anyone else has feelings), but counterbalanced with some Nickishness too, I like to think.

Have any of you planned to anything particular with DC after results? DD requested Nandos for lunch, which we'll do, but what are all your policies on rewards/presents/celebrations?

I spoke to someone at the weekend who insinuated that DD1s issues during the exams were 'nothing really'. I was not impressed.

Actually DD1 is more than a little like Nick if you take away the sportiness. Apart from the voice, the trying to put back her own dislocated finger thing reeks of the lucky clover locket affair. But DD1 would never stand up to Lois Sanger (she's encountered several of them in the past) hence my feeling that overall, she's Esther. I always wanted to be Crommie, myself.

Trepidation building in this household again. Due to aforementioned deaths in the family, DD2's exam period was somewhat overshadowed...