Year 11 GCSE support thread 6 - exams and proms

Great!

I know AuntP - I said that to DD earlier as she was worrying on again about results/which Sixth Form - it is a very unsettling time for them all, particularly if they are not staying on at the same school.

Adding my thanks for the support and hand holding through the revision time, clinging fall, exams and Japan like sugar coming here to vent and chat has kept ds alive!! Had a chat about uni today and apprenticeships he's obviously been talking on his trip to some of the older scouts as he thinks these sound good, I'll have to do some research as I hadn't appreciated these as an option.
Anyway this time meet week it'll all be over

Excellent results Fairenuff

Horsemad really sorry things have been so difficult . Really hope the events of yesterday turn out to be one of those things you look back on and feel it was meant to be.

This thread has been a big support, thank you all very much. I'll be here still as think there will need to be a bit of juggling post results with the 6th form options and am also a little worried about the 6th form settling in thing plus there will be GCSE Maths resit. You lot have stopped me losing the plot with DD on a few occasions and if she knew she would be very grateful too !!

Yes its great to have this thread with all our different experiences and support. I am thinking I will still need a lot of hand - holding after Thursday too as I imagine deciding on/getting settled on Sixth Form may be as mammoth a task as the GCSES were.

Hear, hear, Littleham. Amazing support on this thread. Adding my thanks and good luck all!

of you..

Just wishing you good luck for the future. It has been a great pleasure to talk to all.

Thanks Errol, bet the sailing will be fab there.

I don't know much about its chemistry dept but it's certainly a good university in general (we've not visited but it could well turn out to be DD's preference for Elec eng and nothing to do with the sailing, oh no absolutely not).

His offer is from Southampton, which was his firm choice but he applied for Comp Sci. He can definitely do the subject, his old teacher used to rave about him and the tutor was impressed too.

Where is it he has this offer from? If his problem was more with one teacher than with the subject per se (and he evidently bucked up with a tutor?) then he might find it ok at university. It's a shame when one teacher can have such an effect - my DD went right off biology because of hers, and quite a bit off chemistry because of unavoidable staffing problems (illness), but it's not so critical at gcse as A level.

Thanks Errol, I was going to pick your brains about Chemistry!
I am hoping he really gets into it again, as he always enjoyed the subject until the teacher left and he didn't gel with the new one.

Oops DS!

Sorry things are difficult with your DS, horse (I scanned through the yr13 thread to get the jist). As a chemist myself I'd say it's rather different at uni - harder (both the theory and lots of practicals, at least where I went) but more interesting. And if his bent is towards working in silico, my degrees lead me to a career in developing scientific software ... there are software companies which hire very few comp. sci grads but loads of scientists. Just thought I'd mention this if it would help put a more positive spin on his options (if that seems appropriate).

Slowly resurfacing Juggling, thanks! We'll get over it, his results weren't a surprise, but his inertia afterwards has driven both DH & I up the wall.
I second what Fairenuff said about choosing subjects you like, although DD insisted he did like his choices!

Oh, well done to your DD, Fairnuff!

When DD and DH called me the other evening they were joking (I think) that various words were taboo at the moment - 'results', obviously, but also any of 'A, B,C,D,E,F G or U' - the latter meaning that 'you' became a forbidden word. Apparently the delight with which DD demolished a large piece of lemon meringue pie at Selworthy has resulted in an alternative to DH having to dye his hair with stripes for A* grades - he's says he's going to make one on the 20th, with a certain number entitling her to pastry, some more for the lemon and more again for the meringue. She said on that scale her expectation is lemon tart.

Good luck any one with DC getting A level results today I'm sure a couple of people were going through double hell back in May and June.

It was a hideous time wasn't it. Those gcse exams dragged on for ages, I remember how tired and fraught we all were. Whatever the results we can only move forward now.

Dd got great A level results AAA and is obviously off to her first choice. She did work very hard though and, most importantly I think, she chose subjects that she was really interested it.

Whatever happens next Thursday, I think that is what we will enourage ds to do. Pick the right course/college, pick the subject you are strongest in/interested in and work at it. It makes the A level/uni stage that much easier.

Horsemad I hope your ds finds something that he can be passionate about, regardless of where or when he studies it. There are so many options out there it can be difficult to choose but what I like is that so many unis are very flexible with their courses so there is bound to always be something for everyone, as long as they look for it.

Hope things are settling down a bit today Horsemad
How are you both?

I'm just stepping off the A level results rollercoaster with DS1 and regrouping ready for next week.

I am sure nothing will be as bad as yesterday was!!

Starting the GCSE results countdown now..

Thought I'd pop back and re-find you all - with friends A level results reminding me that we've a week to go now! Lots of friends have DC off to Uni now - exciting times for many

Hope you've all been having a good summer and have been able to forget about it all doing nice things

DD has been doing the NCS programme and having an "amazing" time such as last week's adventures in North Wales
Picking her up from the second Uni based week this afternoon - will be nice to have her back home.
DS is off next week for a few days hols with friends.
We've also had a few days away on Norfolk beaches in the sunshine, and a few days with friends on a hostel hol in the Lakes - mostly in the rain for that one!

Anyway sorry to remind you about the week to go but wanted to find you all again for the hand-holding and and

You guys have been amazing! I've popped in a few times over the last month or so to see what you've been up to ... its great how this thread has kept going!

I don't know about you lot - but I've never been this side of a weekend, wishing I was the other side already!

DH and I keep torturing ourselves suggesting to each other what grades DS1 might have got in each subject ... its beginning to give me weird dreams!

Anyway - great to be back in touch with you all ... big hugs xxx

Hi folks!

I agree spud - didn't see the item obvs but it could be an excellent opportunity. We need many more of them - we need a skilled workforce. Might be something DS would like to do.