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Is there a hand holding thread for Y11 parents and GCSE results yet?

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fatowl · 13/08/2014 15:48

DD is waiting on GCSE results next Thursday.

She is bouncing around being a teen on Summer holidays (she is off in Ireland for a week with her friend's family)

I am beginning to feel a bit sick.

She is hoping to stay at school and do A-levels, but now the results are getting closer I'm a bit concerned we don't have a back up plan.

How are the rest of you doing?

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ElephantsNeverForgive · 20/08/2014 00:37

A teen fiction or Dr Who GCSE would go down well here.

AtiaoftheJulii · 20/08/2014 00:07

I'll be taking my dd2 - did last year for both dd1 and dd2, and took dd1 last week - but waiting in the car. Dd2 seems to be past the worst of the nerves, and into the que sera sera zone.

TheAmyrlin · 19/08/2014 23:34

Oh if only!! Xbox, minecraft and yogscast. He'd get A*s in everything. Oh and GOT- he knows all the characters/ houses etc. has read all the books. GCSEs on Game of Theones would be ideal!

ElephantsNeverForgive · 19/08/2014 23:33

Given our non existent public transport, there are going to be a lot of parents sitting in the carpark.

queenofthemountain · 19/08/2014 23:30

I am just hoping every exam had lots of xbox questions on! He might do ok then

TheAmyrlin · 19/08/2014 23:08

I'll join in. I think I'm more stressed than DS! He's playing it cool.
He does have a place at college, if he gets the required grades. If everything went ok on the day, he should hopefully have a C in maths. It's the English I'm more worried about. He's dyspraxic / dyslexic, so English is his weakest subject- well anything that involves lots of writing!!

Phaedra11 · 19/08/2014 22:59

I will be taking DS in but may compromise by waiting in car!

Ellen, my heart goes out to you and your DS. We've had this problem and it usually turns out to be to do with DS playing it so cool that those organising the social event assume he's not interested.

nostress · 19/08/2014 22:58

There's a multi storey car park near by - I was planning in hiding in there!

exexpat · 19/08/2014 22:50

Last year, when DS went in to get the results of the two he had taken early, I had to wait more than an hour for him to text me. I might beg remind him to be a bit speedier this time.

Taking him in and hanging around to find out would be absolute social death, I suspect.

nostress · 19/08/2014 22:32

Are you all going to take them in? DS would normally go in on the bus but I'm desperate to go too. Is that bad?

Dumbledoresgirl · 19/08/2014 22:23

How awful Ellen. Do you know why?

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 19/08/2014 22:08

DS1 has been 'uninvited' to a post results party. Sad Not sure how to cheer him up.

exexpat · 19/08/2014 21:23

I had no chance at all of failing to open mine or not telling my parents - my mother taught at the same school, so had the whole list. I still had to phone round my friends to find out how they'd all done, though.

ElephantsNeverForgive · 19/08/2014 20:21

Whole sodding town knew mine, I kept getting congratulated by people I didn't know! It was both rather nice and a bit Blush

eatyourveg · 19/08/2014 19:15

Not a boy thing CatherineofMumbles I was the same, kept them in my pocket for days. Didn't want to know what I got. Everyone around me was talking non stop about how so and so did and what so and so was going to do and I didn't want to be part of it so when they asked me I just said I didn't know.

I hate it when people ask outright how a dc got on, some dc would just rather not say, if they want to volunteer the information then so be it but there is this massive pressure on them these days to proclaim to the world how they got on.

ds very calm here not mentioning them at all - off to the footie this evening and I'm much more what will be will be than I was while he was actually taking them

sausagedog12 · 19/08/2014 19:11

In fact takeaway all week............need time to recover before domestic duties resumeGrin

exexpat · 19/08/2014 19:07

That sounds like an eminently sensible idea. And Dominos or curry for tomorrow night.

sausagedog12 · 19/08/2014 19:06

No we've just done a KFC. That's worse!

BoffinMum · 19/08/2014 18:56

I am so stressed I can't cook. I am taking the kids to the supermarket cafe for dinner. Is that bad?

CatherineofMumbles · 19/08/2014 18:29

sausagedog12 (love that name! how come there were SD 1-11???)
Is a boy thing? My own boy was very casual about the iGSCE and AS results he got last week, tho' I do suspect there was a bit of studied casualness - a bubble we do not want to burst as their self-esteem very fragile at this age...

sausagedog12 · 19/08/2014 18:19

My son is one of those who " will probably not open his results straightaway" arrgh! why not?

CatherineofMumbles · 19/08/2014 17:24

He had been 'too tired' to get his results!
I love these DC!

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 19/08/2014 17:11

I think DS1 is just worried enough. Wink Not so much he is having trouble sleeping, but it's certainly been on his mind a lot this week. The 'ice bucket challenge' seems to have relaxed him a bit today. Grin

Oakmaiden · 19/08/2014 16:32

This would be my son, Agggghast.

I asked him yesterday if he was worried about Thursday. He genuinely had no idea what I was talking about.

Agggghast · 19/08/2014 16:05

Last year one pupil arrived at our school at 3.30, I was the only member of staff still there, with his frantic mother who had spent the whole day phoning him from work to try and find out how he had done. She eventually left early in a panic only to find him asleep in bed! He had been 'too tired' to get his results! The exams office was locked up and the boy didn't seem to mind, his mother was nearly crying. Fortunately I had the spreadsheet with grades so was able to help and he had done well, which was lucky because his mother was looking murderous.

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