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Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

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HSMMaCM · 24/03/2015 20:24

New thread ..... (DD not sure about the prom dress she has bought!!!!)

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Littleham · 27/04/2015 12:09

Hope he is ok today AuntP.

Fabulous news dingit.

I was also glad to see the back of the language orals TheWord, especially as she is doing French and German GCSE so double the trouble. Hope your dd's oral goes well today.

TheWordFactory · 27/04/2015 11:51

DD has her French oral today.
I for one am very pleased to see the back of it!

dingit · 27/04/2015 11:34

Yay! Sing it from the roof tops! Dd just texted me to say she got an A in her further maths mock. I think we can say the tutoring has paid off!

bigTillyMint · 27/04/2015 07:58

Good Luck AuntP!

dingit · 27/04/2015 07:51

Ah bless him, he needed a good sleep. Hope he gets on ok today.

auntpetunia · 27/04/2015 07:47

Right off to school to see how we can manage this, he's slept for 13 hours solid and when I woke him he was in lots of pain he's now showered, we didn't bother with shaving, he'll have a full beard by the end of this week as he hadn't shaved last week due to laziness. Hope the HOY and SENCO can give us some ideas for how to cope in class. Poor lad tried to write left handed, it was like a Reception child. Wish us luck

LynetteScavo · 27/04/2015 06:53

Oh dear!, auntpetunia! Your poor DS!

auntpetunia · 26/04/2015 20:07

Haha yep bigtillymint 6 ft 4 you read that right!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 26/04/2015 19:35

Your poor ds AuntPetunia. But timing aside sounds like it will heal so hoping nothing's broken. And just as well that he's used to using a scribe - just will need to practice for maths as well.
Am trying to be sympathetic - hoping it's coming across OK x

bigTillyMint · 26/04/2015 19:23

AuntP, 6ft 4?ShockGrin

auntpetunia · 26/04/2015 18:45

No dingit this is nothing to do with Scouts, he's climbed for a number of years and goes every Sunday for lessons . he's never fallen before but apparently this was spectacular. Scout camp was supposed to be over the end of may bank holiday. I've spoken to HOY and am meeting her and SENCO re what is needed. He's due back at Alder Hey on Friday for a redress and confirmation that nothing is broken by the radiologist, he's only got paracetamol and ibuprofen as a pain relief but they dosed him at the hospital and hes been asleep now since 4.30, just going to wake him up for some food. If the pain is bad ill give him something stronger, the paramedics wouldn't give him codeine as he's not 16 yet, summer baby, though the paramedics were looking at him and saying are you sure your not 16, at 6 ft 4 he towered over both of them.

TheWordFactory · 26/04/2015 18:07

Oh no! Painkillers at the ready Sad.

Littleham · 26/04/2015 17:22

Oh no! Your poor ds AuntPetunia. Wine for you as well.

I hope it works out ok with the scribe.

dingit · 26/04/2015 17:13

That sounds very painful Aunt P, was that on his scout trip?

bigTillyMint · 26/04/2015 16:44

AuntPShock Oh No! I agree with SugarPlum, I bet he's not the first to have done something to their hand. At least it's not the day before the examCake

auntpetunia · 26/04/2015 16:34

I cant believe the timing ! Fortunately he is entitled to a scribe anyway and has one for every subject except maths as he found it easier to do his own working out etc am going to email head of year now and arrange to meet her and senco and whoever else we need in the morning. He's just said he'll need to do loads of practice with a maths scribe to make sure they know how he works.

But he's fine, he fell 7 metres so really we are very lucky it's just a load of rope burns could have been so much worse.

SugarPlumTree · 26/04/2015 16:32

Oh no Aunt Petunia FlowersWine I guess he won't be the first or last to do it so School will be able to put things in place, but how stressful for you all.

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HSMMaCM · 26/04/2015 16:23

Oh no. That's definitely a case for extra help for the exams! What awful timing.

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TeenAndTween · 26/04/2015 16:18

petunia No! Shock

My DD is accident prone. I've banned her from doing anything even slightly dangerous between now and the end of exams.

You'll need to speak to the exams officer on Monday regarding options for extra time and/or a scribe I guess.

Fairenuff · 26/04/2015 16:14

Oh no, auntp your poor ds Shock

What will happen about his exams? Hope he recovers soon x

auntpetunia · 26/04/2015 16:11

Been AWOL for a few weeks doing other things but ds has been working for 2 hrs each night after school and bits and pieces of revision at home . But today a huge spanner has been thrown into our nicely laid plans, he fell at climbing and has possibly fractured fingers in his right hand, he has horrific rope burns from the base of his thumb across his palm to his little fingat and around his ring and second fingers. He has almost debrided the skin off his pinky ! His hand is black blue and swollen and is now wrapped up in layers upon layers of burns bandage!!! No writing for at least a month!!! OMG timing couldn't be worse .....and breath

SugarPlumTree · 26/04/2015 15:35

She might pass on that thanks HSM having done her work experiemce in a nursery. Think the point of no return was when they started banging each over the head with the toy frying pans. She has told me after that if I want grandchildren to look at DS !

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HSMMaCM · 26/04/2015 15:08

I can return the favour if your DD wants to do childcare in Reading.

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SugarPlumTree · 26/04/2015 14:56

Grin absolutely fine HSM

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HSMMaCM · 26/04/2015 14:20

Juggling. DD says she wishes she'd done geography instead of one of her other subjects ... And she's not even that keen on geography.

Anyway ... I don't need to do uni visits. I've got it planned. DD can study psychology in Southampton and live with sugar plum, who can advise on course work. That'll be ok won't it ? Grin

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