Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

sugar that is so cool. I am well jel!

bowie that's a nightmare!

My son has just broken his ankle and was operated on a few days ago to have pins put in.
Taking god knows how many painkillers a day.
So I am washing/dressing him, taking and collecting from school, making food...its a nightmare!!!!

WOW, SPT, that is AMAZING! Very exciting for her.

that reminds me of going to have coffee at friends last year who had just had a new kitchen. It was all lovely and sleek, apart from the 3 very large pink post it notes stuck on the cupboards with Maths stuff.

7 pm is very late for the Drama, surprised about that.

DD just had an email about her film. There were over 350 submissions, she has been invited to the screening in the US and has to provide video stills or something for their press pack and program. I am currently and at the same time. Not bad for the girl the Head of 6th form said recently is borderline for getting the 5 GCSE'S to get into 6th form.

at Ofsted visit, how unfair! Bet their stress levels are through the roof.

BackforGood, that's a bit rough for the kids Feel sorry for them.

dd started today.
Kicked off with a drama practical.
Can anyone tell me WHY they had to stay at school until 7pm to do this??? Surely the examiner should be expecting to come during the school day, not make them do 12 hour days (out of the house - 11hours of schooling) at this stage???

Ha ha, we have post it notes everywhere in this house!

Just got a shock when I went to the loo - there are revision notes stuck on the back of the door Then I spotted them all over the house Hope the blu-tac doesn't leave marks on our beautifully painted (not!) walls.

DD's drama should be all out of the way, but she completely missed the point in one of her write ups so is going to try to rework it in the next 3 days. Has to be done at school under controlled conditions though.

DD is shattered and stressed and getting very little done after school. I'm stuck between wanting her to do some science revision and protecting her sanity.

60% a nice amount to have out of the way

I forgot it is Tuesday and Maths tutor was coming until car arrived.DDD shattered and luckily she was very understanding.

I think the drama must vary a bit between the different boards - DD did AQA, they did quite a few performances as CAs throughout the two years, of which I think they could discard two. They were all over with before Easter so that's 60% of that one out of the way.

Same here SugarPlum, re ditching the Drama. Infact it was before the end of Y10 IIRC!

Poor teachers and students with Ofsted coming too

Oh flipping heck Littleham They're coming to DD'S school shortly.

That's another layer of stress for your DS. DD ditched drama at end of year 10, hated it by then .

Nice to have one or two exams over and done with.

Guess what? Ofsted are visiting my dc's school. What timing! Poor teachers....

SugarPlum, bebumba well done on the English! And photography, SugarPlum.

Juggling well done on the Art!

AuntP, so hope this doesn't happen to DD - she won't cope well with anything extra happening. Good luck to your DD on the Drama.

Well ds is still in school tonight as the science moderator has asked to see his work as one of the 5 they assess, so him and a teacher are going through it to make sure it's A* as apparently the scores the 5 get reflects the scores for the whole class. No pressure then! Glad people thought engine went ok and well done on the art HSM, I'm so hoping DD year 8 decides against it, Me and DS both told her how stressful it was yesterday, he said the most stressed people at present in school are the artiSt's closely followed by the drama people as they still don't know when they have to do their performance and after next week there isn't a day when they are all available someone has an exam everyday from their group of 25...great timing by the exam board. Suggestion has been made that they all go in on Saturday and teacher just records it and sends it off. We'll see how that goes.

dd home just now after art exam -
cross with me though as she had to walk home (carrying one of her sketch-books) as we didn't manage to communicate pick up time very well and so I missed her - basically she stayed late finishing bits off I think. Also unfortunately didn't have her mobile on her as put off taking it in as it's not allowed in exams (and she just got it so isn't that used to it yet - just what you need though on days like today. Oh well)
Because she is also knackered and hungry I am seriously in the dog-house
But as almost an aside she did manage to tell me that actually it went OK. She even has some pics which she will show me later - but "I'm not showing you now!"
I'm just relieved she's back home as dh and I were slightly worried about her, not knowing where or how she was.
As I just said to dh on the phone I'm really hoping art is the worst - and not just the first!
Hoping we won't have this staying up all night thing with any of the others. Mostly it's one exam a day for the next 4 weeks, with the half-term week for revision right in the middle. That should be manageable surely?!

DS said it was 'not impossible' ...

He seems very very glad to get the first one done and dusted and crack on with the rest.

Ds home and said the English was better than expected too, phew!
Although part of me will be worrying about whether he read the questions properly.
1 down quite a few still to go... ??

Good news Dingit, DD just in and has said much the same and is in a good mood Her photography has gone in today as well so 2 down.

That is lovely HSM

I don't want DS to listen to DD, he'll do no work if he does He's come home clutching big sheet of spellings to learn for SATS next week which was a bit depressing.

That's great dingit!

Hsm, that's lovely.
Dd home, and said the English paper was better than she expected. It's one to cross off the list, anyway