Year 12 preparing for AS levels

Thanks! I think it's her that needs the and and possible a little , poor thing!

Glad to hear that, namechange. Crossing my fingers for him as well as any others who find it particularly stressful. It was certainly better last year once the GCSE's started!

Just checking in as I haven't said hello for a bit.

DS' first AS exam last week went well, he thinks. So that's a huge weight lifted - it never seems quite so bad once the blessed things start, I feel.

He's still on antidepressants; it's the only thing that gets him into school really. But in a hugely better place than this time last year. So I'm grateful for that. Just hope he can hold it together for the next few weeks.

Good Luck to all our DCs!

Hope she is ok bigTilly. Not great timing.

I'm really sorry BTM, that must be very hard. Sounds like it's going to be a difficult week for a lot here, hope you have stocks of and and wishing you all strength.

Thanks SugarPlum. She's struggling with the pressure of the exams and this has not helped at all

Same here, HSM.

Your poor DD BTM, very bad timing. Hope she's bouncing back

Huge sympathies to all of you having to contend with these new ridiculous SATs on top of everything else. I really feel for the DC and am very grateful DS did his last year. Nicky Morgan et al have a lot to answer for.

Last week of school before study leave. Boy has that crept up on us.

Juggling my DD thinks that as well, she's right. The pressure this year is ridiculous, far more than in previous years from what I can tell and very, very different to when DS did them.
DD's school are doing a breakfast club and then an hour of yoga type activity and then the first test. They have planned a day of no lessons at all for Friday, I'm not sure what they are going to do though.
DS went into 6th form this morning and then texted me to say he's coming home as he feels ill, I hope it's not the start of something!

Juggling I have told DS that they are a test of the teacher and school so try not to worry but it is the teachers saying things like have a good breakfast, go to bed early etc that has stressed him a bit.

BTM we live in Hertfordshire/north London borders so not too quiet and not very rural. My niece went to Liverpool JM and loved it. I work for Manchester Uni and have never seen any gang wars during my regular visits. Any city will have its criminal underworld, I expect it was just the stark reality of being confronted with it that hit home.

My DS (Y9) has a week of exams from today. First ones for him in the school hall and they will contribute towards setting in maths and science next year.
He just about found out - by phoning a friend yesterday - that he has Chemistry today.
I hope they go OK for him. If he's fairly chilled about them I feel reluctant to ramp up the pressure just yet, but perhaps I should ask him what he has next day so he can do some preparation at least the night before!

Those with SATS, I'm sorry they seem to be getting more stressful with every year. Can you not try to tell DC that they are more a test for the school (and teachers) than for them really? That they will make little difference to their own outcomes and futures.
Other things are more important for them really - those relating to secondary school applications.
It annoyed me a bit that primary school barely acknowledged those things that actually might be important for DS such as a music audition for a place at secondary school (though he prob would have got a sibling place anyway)
And just cranked up the stress for the bloody irrelevant SATS

But tbf they weren't too bad when mine did them, just lots of practice and they put on a breakfast club for them which they quite liked.

Bloody sats, lovely, funny, creative, sporty dd has gone to bed stressed about the bloody things.

Ah, just googled it! Where else is he thinking of?

No, I've never heard of anything out of the ordinary for a big city either. In Liverpool, I mean! Do you live in a quiet area, Ono? Maybe he's just not that aware of what big cities are like?

What is RVC, teta?

Bemusement at Liverpool's gangland warfare.I never came across it and was born in Liverpool,left when I was five and went back for Uni.Lived in liverpool 7 ( Toxteth).
DD wasn't very keen on the RVC yesterday thank God.Its very expensive living in London (/especially with 4 kids to pay for).

On SATs DD2 has done a little online stuff this w/e but I have been ensuring she doesn't get too stressed, as she finds it all hard so needs to keep up her confidence to have a go.

DD1 prepping for Spanish AS. I spent the morning working with her on how to plan the writing task of the exam. It is in the lap of the gods really. if she gets a question she knows about she'll be OK, but she can't think up ideas for herself.

Also looked at DD1's latest BTEC assignment. Again very lacking in detail - she can't see what is needed so makes bland statements and doesn't back them up at all.

Just wondering what she would do if she dropped out after y12...

A word in Liverpool's defence that my DBro had a great Uni experience there _ I enjoyed visiting him there and strolling along the fairly unrearkable Penny Lane and having a trip on the Mersea.

Yeah, me too. DD is fairly laid back about them thank goodness, she's feeling confident and says that she doesn't need to worry because DS didn't get the levels that she is expected (by the government) to get because then the levels were lower and he's done fine in his GCSEs so what's the worry for. She's got her head screwed on right I think. It is stressful though, some days they have 4 papers in one day which is not the best planning and certainly not when you are full of hay fever.

God Littlehouse, I feel so mad that these bloody SATS have become so stressful for the DC.

DS has been revising at his friend's yesterday, as far as I know anyway. He's been down for food and gone back to his room now. Tomorrow we have the fun of the year 6 SATs starting and then the first AS level is a week tomorrow so we have three weeks of it. At least the AS levels are useful.

Similar here HSM - friends rallying round as DD and bf gage just spilt - crap timing, eh?