Year 11 GCSE support thread 6 - exams and proms

DS will be driven to school by one of us and then will prob come home to mull it over!
I hope he does OK because he seemed to be working hard leading upto the exams.
Needs Bs in his A level choices and Cs in English & Maths.

DD1 will walk in on her own.

She'll ring us, and give us an incoherent and possibly inaccurate account of her results. Probably starting with 'I'm really delighted' or 'It's terrible' neither of which phrases will in any shape or form be an accurate summary. We will ask her 3 or 4 times before she clearly reads out results subject by subject. Even then we won't be sure until we see the piece of paper ourselves.

It will be a trying hour.

I think our plan is that one or both of us drives DD and then loiters in a coffee shop for her to contact us. I did ask her if she'd rather go on the bus and then hang with her friends after but she declined that. I guess she wants us available but if she does want to do stuff with her mates after that's OK by me - it's their day. I think she's pretty confident she's done well in the subjects she cares about, and the rest I'm anticipating a mix of some better than she thought and some disappointing but no disasters. But I think none of us can help being apprehensive on their behalf.

The benefit of DS being incommunicado in India, is that I have no idea whether he's worrying about his results or not! I suspect not, as he will be too busy to think about it really.

I will need to drive DS to school on results day, although no doubt I'll be under strict instructions to stay in the car until he deigns to appear with his results. He needs 5 grade As to be able to stay at his current school (absolutely no leeway with that). He refused to register at any other schools, so if he doesn't get the grades I will need to go into full-on mad ringing around all the other schools mode.......I think I may take a list of telephone numbers with me, just in case.

Spud, we have had the same from DD worrying about her results. I think she has agreed to send me a photo of them so she doesn't have to actually say them to me. After last year when she seemed to take ages to come home and show us her results (2 GCSEs) as she was so disappointed with the Chemistry

I'm starting to think about strategies......on results day.
DD has made it clear they are HER results and may or may not share . I can't tell if she's saying this just to watch me squirm at the moment...ha ha very funny.
I'm wondering whether she will go quiet and sulky or do the whole running around and squealing thing. Will she want to celebrate/ commiserate? Or just forget about it. Talk about it or not? The worst case scenario would be sulking as it would put a downer on the last couple of days of our hard earned holiday. Never really had a situation like this before so I'm finding it hard to predict.
How do you all think your DC will deal with the information?

Ha loving the elephants. Ds went off to Japan with group items water bottles etc with surname and pink flower (I cut off dds name) to ensure he wasnt drinking from someone else's bottle. To say he was unimpressed was an understatement, but he's as funny as me about sharing cups etc so accepted it. Not heard from him since arrived at jamboree but seen pics from the group on fb and twitter. DD has started cout down to her bday which is day after results so suddenly it seems close. Ds not home until week before. So not long to panic

Love the elephants too! DD1 has cats on her nametapes, but these days I fold them under so they don't show.

Switch very impressed by your DS. Especially after all the illnesses!

Just catching up on thread, wow your dc have had amazing summers.
Dd isn't doing bad either, we are currently on holiday in California, but since the 1st August arrived, she's been doing a results day countdown.
It going to be a long flight home ( I know what she will be talking about)

Wow, switch, how's he got into that at such a tender age? Seriously impressed!

Fair play for holdinh your nerve Switchitoff, that's quite some list he has chalked up !

Glad DD is ok T&T, can only imagine how stressful it must have been with the IV line.

at Spudmasher and her little elephants, made my morning reading that !

All calm here touch wood so trying to enjoy it whilst it lasts .

Went to london today and bought the black and flesh coloured fishnets, plus flesh body stocking, multi various shoes, leotards, skirts and dance trousers. I now have a sore thumb from sewing in name tags. DD is mortified that all her new college clothes have name tags complete with little elephant embroidered- leftovers from Year 7- but I'm damned if they get lost and have to be replaced at even more cost. Even the knee pads have name tags.

Respect to Switchitoff.
The trip sounds amazing and straight back atcha with not holding him back.

Spudmaster, how exciting for your DD and you are quite right not to hold her back. The uniform list made me laugh!

DS1 is off to India today. He will be volunteering at various health/education projects in the rural backwaters (limited electricity, no mains water, 80% illiteracy, that sort of thing) and at a Calcutta school for street children. Am feeling a lot calmer now that his accommodation has been finalised - it was only sorted a couple of days ago.

Am definitely NOT thinking about the time he returned with a potentially fatal illness and was hospitalised in an isolation ward. Or the time he returned with a parasite infection that the London School of Tropical Medicine had to deal with. Or the two times when he's flown and his ear-drum has burst due to the change in air pressure, so that now he has a bionic ear-drum.

Oh no, not me. I am calmness personified.

BigTillyMint on the other side of the world, that is her plan A!! And who am I to crush her dreams- she's made a pretty good go of it so far. However, it's a nasty, fickle, cruel business so I'm studiously plotting her plan B which is why I'm so interested in the GCSE results..........

Switchitoff, where is DS1 off to?

Spud, will we have a celeb DD on this thread?!

Wow to all those intrepid travelling DC - very impressive. And we'll done to all the nerve - holding DM's too

Not really thinking about/bothered about results atm - doesn't seem that real from this side of the globe. But I'm sure I will be a quivering wreck when I get back.

Teen - glad your DD is better, that sounds like it must have been very worrying for you.

I wasn't at Heathrow today (XH drove the DCs back) but will be there tomorrow afternoon dropping DS1 off for his next adventure. So if anyone else is there, say hello! I'll be the one trying to look supremely calm waving DS1 off again, whilst my heart is actually all of a flutter.

Glad your DD was OK Teen, that was always at the back of my mind - what if he was ill abroad. He's come back with a cough/chest infection and his ears played him up when diving, but hopefully nothing too troublesome.
He's been showing me some underwater filming he did, looks amazing. A dolphin touched/nudged him!

Blimey. Well done for holding your nerve and thanks be for your daughter's health and recovery. Glad she managed a good time despite the unwellness in the middle.

Sorry for the countdown. DH and I have resolved just to embrace the outcome whatever. We've even started to discuss 'reaction faces'. We will be on holiday (first one in quite a while with other Dc too ) at the time, and results are being emailed......we really don't want to ruin the holiday for us or them. Though DD is threatening not to share - results emailed directly to her, not us.

Um, yes. 5 days of what turned out to be Gastroenteritis. I nearly flew out, but she was miles better after 1hour on IV and said I didn't need to come. She enjoyed the first 4 days and the last 11 days though, and claims to have improved her Spanish too (not that I have any clue about that). Relieved to have her home.

spud Trying not to think about 3rd week of August. Concentrating on the next 2 first!

IV?? Hope all is well.

It's August......less than three weeks now.