Year 11 GCSE support thread 6 - exams and proms

Last day!
And here's my little girl on her first and last day at school

Last one here this morning for DS. It's been a slog. Can't wait to rid my living room of revision notes!

This is it, the last exam. Feels like it's taken for ever. Good luck today for anyone with final exams..DS says he sort of knows his physics but isn't sure.....great start.

Hope everyone's dcs find the strength to deal with today's exams.

Sparkling, sorry to hear your DS is not great today again. DD is in a better mood, which is probably because she finished the ECDL exam (WTF is it even?) with flying colours and can now relax.

I don't think she's got as far as thinking about sixth form uniform!

Dd has physics tomorrow morning AND THAT'S IT! Yay! :)

My DS is a bit crabby today. Think it must be them 'coming down' after the exams.

I've been pretty emotional too today, especially after DH got upset after looking through DS1's yearbook.

I just feel a bit 'flat'.

I'm OK thanks BTM Bit nervous for her as pretty big undertaking and can't help wondering what state she will be at other end .

AuntP that had gone through my mind about the money. We use a Fairfx card in Europe which is a prepaid Mastercard you can use to withdraw cash in cash point. Thought I might look at a seeing whether there is something like that available.

canny H&M have some nice blazers. Though I don't know if they're washable.

DS1 has been morose again today. It's getting me down a bit. He's not 16 yet but I want him to look for a job. Friends that are already 16 report there are no jobs anyway apparently.

His bedroom still full of books and revision notes.

I'm on the other side with a morose lethargic DD.She finished last week and her friends mostly finished today.She has cheered herself up by sale shopping for smart sixth form clothes.Dorothy Perkins,Next and Clark's seem to be popular.Where can you buy reasonable inexpensive washable jackets though?
At her friends house tonight,make up,hair and nails tomorrow in preparation for their Prom.Then she needs to be sucked into her dress

SugarPlum, I somehow missed that in the madness that was last night, and this thread seems to be moving very fast. Hope she has a good journey and that the change is a positive one for her. How are you feeling now?

AuntP and SugarPlum, exciting Japan times!

Oddboots, DD says she has finished hers now - probably took a day in total! She is still pissed off though, as they apparently have to get signed out by all their teachers, she lost (though I think it is found now) her fob and can't get hold of Senior teacher who is supposed to be signing the form too....

Came home to find DS1's bedroom clean and tidy, with a bin bag full of GCSE revision notes etc.

The only thing on his desk was the 6th form application which I'd signed for him at the beginning of May, but he obviously hasn't handed in. . This may explain the lack of correspondence from 6th form.

sugar yeah Japan is 5 weeks away, which is frightening. How are you organising money for dd when there? That's my biggest worry, don't want to give him a load of yen to loose.

Apparently leavers service was boring other pupils report much sobbing but not ds, just lots of talking etc. He's done a 3 hr stint of physics with the teaCher and has now gone the beach.

Thank you everyone, you're all very kind. Oddboots I hope she likes it over there, she has been desperate to go for ages but not well enough before. Been a military operation having 12 days to organise longhaul trip for not very mobile elderly lady with Dementia. She's currently travelling with a Nurse and they're on their way to Airport as a night flight and won't arrive until about Lunch time tomorrow.

MrsB what a nightmare but huge relief he made it.

Errol will be interesting to see what she makes of it.

AuntPetunia DD going to Japan early July, realised that is coming round pretty fast ..

Errol , do report back!

dingit - ITA, it seems like a lot more to me, and the fact that some of it is coursework and CA just means there's more over a longer time.

DH has found a few O-level papers online from about 1975 (maths, physics and chemistry), and DD is going to have a go at them next week - this is entirely voluntary on her part, she's curious to know what the standard was for us (we did ours in 77). Obviously the maths will need anything to do with logs redacting, but it'll be interesting to see what she makes of both the content and type of question. Either she'll look at us with new respect or else mild contempt that we only did 8 or 9 subjects.

Sorry to hear about your mum SugarPlumTree, I hope the journey has gone well, I've heard very good things about care homes in Thailand.

Thank you to everyone else who has made lovely comments.

Oh goodness MrsBennetsEldest, what a stress!

bigTillyMint I was reading on SchoolsWeek that nationally the number of entries has rocketed. DS did half of his today and seems to have got enough for Distinction* in Word and Powerpoint - he has the other half tomorrow. Scary to think that is is thought of as the same level as a GCSE if it can be done in two lessons! I guess they are using computers all the time though (or at least ds is, I'm guessing othrs are the same).

That's it! We're done.
Latin poetry went 'reasonably to quite well'.

DS is overjoyed to be at the end of a 6 week exam marathon! And I've just called head of sixth to check when the mocks are for AS as DH is trying to book some tickets to the football online.

Penultimate exam over, just Further Maths to go and all exams will be completed!
Next Wednesday is the prom, we have already been out and bought a nice blue suit and I have to admit to shedding a few tears when I saw ds all dressed up in it.
Next Thursday is his visit to Sixth Form College. He is looking forward to the move but not to having to get up and catch a bus at 7:40am. At the moment he has a 10 minute stroll to school.

Signing on to new thread. Knee deep in physics revision here. I've been testing her, I can't believe how much she has had to learn ( across all her subjects). I'm sure it was more than I did for o levels, but then again I was a lazy so and so.

thunderbird - my DD's school doesn't have an official prom for yr 11s, that happens in the sixth form. Some of them have organised an unofficial one but she and her pals aren't interested in going.

This time tomorrow it will all be over for us (well, by 10.30 I think). He went in for physics revision this morning but has now gone out to meet friends. How odd that he suddenly has the energy to walk 25 minutes to the bus stop and go out. I did offer him a lift but he said he fancied the walk

MrsB

Reminds me of DS1 a few months ago. I was at work and I got a call from DS1 in floods during the mocks saying he should be at school (12 miles away) as his course work wasn't up to date and he should be in the catch up session.

Cut a long story short some of his mates were in the session and thought they would play him up by ringing him up after and asking where he was telling him he was on the list. He wasn't.