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

Ds1 being dropped off at 10. I have said several times that he needs to text/phone me his results! He's spending the day with school friends.

Just off to school, dd just has 3 to pick up (yr10). I'm dreading the main lot next year.

Leaving in ten minutes. DS is in a right old state. I will also be waiting in the car. Will be thinking of all other car loiterers!

Sitting here sweating in our holiday cottage waiting on an e-mail. No idea when it will come. I've read everything about the 'volatile' results and throwing up seems a realistic possibility atm. Dd1 seems calmish. I just want it over with..............

DD made us wait in the car and said she was opening it outside on her own. After 15 minutes we gave up and went to look for her she was standing chatting to her teacher .

DH burst into tears, he never cries.

We are leaving in 15 minutes to drive to school. I am apparently not allowed to wait in car, I will have to do the Walk of Shame with him. Oh crap.

DS let me drive him tp school but insisted I wait in car

He has done well ( in his own words).

One upside of all this is that I have just done masses of overdue work on an academic paper as a distraction technique. Although I think I am about to have a heart attack, I am that stressed. A lot more stressed than DS.

BTW it's true about Cambridge and GCSEs. If you go nuts working hard in the sixth form, and start being a straight A students, they can make allowances for fucking up. In some universities they also allow for massive progression towards the end of the degree course, so if you are borderline but get lots of very high marks in your last year, this can offset faffing about in years 1 and 2 sometimes. Educators do try to be wise and human.

Wow, glad that's over. Targets met, proud parents and happy young person. I may have cried, just a bit, sorry!

Have finally dragged DS out of his pit. Going to school in a bit; feeling v nervy today. Seems much longer than a week ago we went through this with DS1's A'levels. Oh well, at least we'll all be put out of our misery soonish.

DS has now woken up, and logged on himself (didn't tell him DH & I logged on 3 hrs ago!). Somehow before coming down to tell me, he had managed to communicate with various friends and has said that one of them has already said he is going for a re-mark in geog...
Thinking of those of you who are waiting to go in - you are heroes supporting your DC.
Maybe no consolation today, for those with disappointing results because of DC Y11 attitude issues, but met a boy recently on his gap year before Cambridge, who said he did badly in his gcses due to lack of work and immaturity - it gave him the kick he needed, and he worked phenomenally hard for AS to prove everyone wrong about him...
Good luck!

No she has to move, they dont have a sixth form. We're waiting for her first choice to phone for an interview. I hate the way its done over here, if she had been given a place depending on results it would be better.

Good luck to all of you and your DC's. My DS luckily got his results on line at 8 am this morning I'm so relieved the long wait is all over.

DD has finally surfaced and says she feels sick with worry now. She is another one with high expectations of herself and I'm worried how she's going to be if she doesn't match these. Hour and a half to go now. The suspense is horrible.

DD says she wants to get the envelope from school & then open it at home, traveling each way independently. So maximum anxiety for us as she might change her mind & open them at school & then go out or might not which means we'll have to fake being happy if she doesn't get what she's hoping for & is disappointed (she's another high achiever).

Can she stay at her school, Coco, or does she have to move?

Thank you for the kind words . DD passed her 11+ but I wouldn't send her to grammar school because of her anxiety, there would have been to much pressure. As it was she had a mental breakdown in first year.
Her school is a bit rough and not very academic, but very encouraging towards her.

Waiting for 6th form to phone now

Another one here up and nervous while DD is still in bed, she doesn't want to leave till 10.00! (sits waiting with crossed fingers)

Well done, Coco's DC - glad the wait is over for you with a great outcome!

Thinking of you Positive - I'm sure your DD knows, deep down, that she is at least partly to blame and is probably kicking herself. Now may not be the time to suggest it, but she may be able to retake maths and English whilst doing her college course if she wants to, and is prepared to put the effort in.

Hassled we have exactly the same scenario . . .

I'm so relieved this is my laid back ds. My nerves are about him doing well enough in the subjects he wants to do for a level. In 2 years time it will be my high expectations ds and that will be worse! Good luck to everyone!
Positive - hope your dd settles down to work out what went wrong. Perhaps she's still in disappointment/denial mode at the moment.

I'm beyond nervous at this stage - DS2 is up at least. He should be fine - he worked hard and he's clever, but he is so ambitious; my worries are that he won't do as well as his ridiculously high expectations, and how he'll cope with that.

I think so, positive. Her attitude is typical teenager survival mode, though. She'll not want to show how she's really feeling. X

Thanks for the encouragent and congratulations to all those with good results.

DD is moderately upset, but has a "shrugged shoulder" attitude and not taking any responsibility herself.....of course it is all the teachers faults......hmmmmm on all subjects???? I think not!! One common denominator and that is her.

We will get through today. Tomorrow this will be history and we will move forward. This has to be the worst point, surely???

Positive what a disappointment for you. As EllenJane says maybe this will give her the wake up call she needs?

Well done to Coco's DD! Brilliant!

DS has just woken up and is rather distraught as he dreamed he did really badly, and it wasn't failing everything, which I really don't think he will do, but what he described as 'realistically badly' ie several grades below what he was hoping for!