Hand holding thread for parents of DC who are not expecting all A and A*s GCSE results.

Sorry. Meant to say how much help the handholding has been on here. Thank you everyone and well done to your dcs.

turdfairynomore so pleased for you and your ds. I hope you and the dog have a lovely night's sleep.

My ds missed his predicted by a mile but he will be OK with what he's got. Think I and our dog will sleep better tonight. Part of our rotten year was major problems with my ill health retirement application but I got a letter today to say my pension has been agreed and will be enhanced so we can now afford a celebratory meal out!

DD1 got 3 Bs 3 C's and 1 D (in history)

I am proud and happy though I would have loved for her to get a A as she worked so hard but was not to be..

She is happy and having spoken w her teachers it looks likely she can get to do the A levels she wished so from that point of view all is good.

To me it proves once again we were right to move her in year 5 to the smaller school it really turned her around. I just wish I could let Mr B know what a difference he made to her learning. (Sadly he has moved on)

Good news here pretty much getting what was predicted (all A* to C)... Got a B (predicted C) in Maths and CC in English. Was predicted BC. His marks are very close to Bs (2 marks and 4 marks). So don't know whether to go for a remark or not as worried about loosing marks/going down. He says C fine! Got what he needed in his A level choice so good there.

Didn't get his A in science though, got B. As he has dyspraxia and his handwriting is very poor I think this may of had an influence on the markers ability to read his answers. School advised not to use laptop in science although he used it for other subjects (except maths).

School are paying for one of his sciences to be remarked as he was one mark away from a B. I would be delighted for him if he did get just one B, but I'm not holding my breath.

4 Cs and 3 Ds here and a distinction in Business which DS wants to continue at college.
He's very disappointed with his D in English - he really doesn't want to have to do it again next year. This was his 2nd go at it already. Oh well, third time lucky maybe.

5As and 5Bs!! DS and I are thrilled beyond words. I couldn't be more proud of all that he is and all that he's achieved. (Is it too early for the dog and I to go to bed???)

Well done to everyone! My attitude is as long as 100% effort put in it doesn't matter what grade comes out - they have done their best.
My DS has 11 grades ranging from A* to E and for those of you who have read my previous posts - no he didn't get his English! And no he didn't put 100% effort in either.

Looks like Plan B then!

Thank you alma .

Well done Santa's DS and well done everybody! I don't have children but I am a teacher and it's always fantastic to see pupils succeed -whether that means a C or an A* :)

Thank you Capt.

Congratulations to your DS too .

Santa, that is amazing.

It's awful the way they write our children off. Our DS's have shown everyone. So, so pleased for your DS

Thank you Kimaroo and joni. I am so happy!

Brilliant news Santa

Thanks Capt

Bloody hell Santa that's amazing! I've got tears in my eyes just reading that. Well done Santa's ds!

Congratulations to everyone's DCs .

DS1 has aspergers and dyslexia. When he was 5 years old, his then HT told us that he "would never cope with mainstream school" (without even attempting to support his SENs) and excluded him - with the only options provided for us by the LEA being either a special school or home ed. From the ages of 5-11 DS was at a special school where, whilst the people were lovely, the pupils all had SN - mainly behavioural problems - and the focus was very much on managing behaviour than academic learning. DS1 left there with only very basic English & maths skills.

At age 11, we were advised that DS1 should transfer to a different special school for secondary. We refused as we felt strongly that he could be in a mainstream school and should at least be given the chance to try. Amongst much tutting & "well, we'll send his details on to school X anyway as he will probably end up there" DS started at a local mainstream secondary. I can't pretend for a minute that the last 5 years have been easy (to say the least), but with a lot of hard work & determination by both DS & an absolutely fantastic TA & SENCO he has made it. And today, the child who was written off at age 5 has 3 B's, 1 C, 4 D's & 1 E.

I know that many parents/DCs would be absolutely heartbroken with his grades, but I am over the bloody moon to put it mildly .

DS1 is quite pleased - but more pleased at being invited to a party at the weekend, whilst we were at school collecting his grades!

Really pleased for DSS trevor

Well done to all the DCs

DSS has done better than expected with some, worse in others, but should be able to stay on for AS's next year - yeha!

My DD2 got 2 A*s in art and dance, 2 As, 3Bs (including the dreaded English!), 3Cs and a D in Physics. We were genuinely fearful it would be a D in Maths too, and are delighted with the C!

She has worked like a bloody trooper, and always compares herself to DD1 who breezed through with a clutch of A*/As despite minimal effort. I'm delighted with her, and my only heartbreak is she is now definitively flying the nest to full time dance college, so combined with DD1s departure on a gap year, I only have the younger 2 left at home! Sob!

Totally gobsmacked here with 7As and 3Bs. The B for Maths has me crying with joy when yesterday we didn't even think she'd get the all important C. Well done everyone, a fantastic set of results on here!

well done to all the great results coming in - my DDs Cs are as fantastic as DS1s A* were a year ago - she's never got to sit maths or english again!

We're back and she got 5 As, 2 Bs and 3 Cs including a C in Maths which she really thought she'd not got. Very happy and proud. I may have been a little tearful!

RobotLover that's brilliant news!

So lovely to see so many proud and happy parents.

Our children are all brilliant. All of them. There's ALWAYS a plan B.

Meant to say well done to all, on their results, btw! No GCSEs for us this year, but AS day was fraught last week, I can tell you!