Parents of Year 11DC support thread. The final term.

Bad kitten. - I've done that calculation!

Oh the leavers assembly ! Argh. I didn't feel like crying (quite the opposite, I never liked this school for dd) but lots did cry. I feel like a hard, mean person! But I'm looking forward to the future.

Anyone else paranoid with health? I just saw a friend who I haven't seen for ages. She greeted me with a hug, and then later said she has felt really poorly all week. Don't give me (and possobly also ds) your bug!

Ds1 was very anxious earlier. Hopefully he's over the worst now. He has biology, Latin and chemistry next week.
Dd is competing at their sport tomorrow and he asked if he could come along to support his friends. I think he needs a break so agreed to take him along. Hopefully we will have a fun day.

Mrs
DDs school have a portal which tells you what exams there doing what exam board it is and you can see the spefification etc.. And hence me having a discussion with DD about her exams. I like to make sure DD is confident and knows her strengths and weaknesses so revision is effective I also work in a school so know the ins and outs of things

I had a timetable moment this week. DS has one summary timetable with all the exams on and all the revision sessions, that was the one that I'd carefully customised with highlighter to then have him take it back. He also has a personalised exam timetable which has the names of the papers and the times. While I was doing my colouring in on the second copy of the master timetable it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to cross check it with the personalised one. Surprise! He was missing an exam. I was just about to start off on a major panic when he fished another copy of his personalised timetable out of a blazer pocket. This one was dated a month after the one I had, included the missing exam and a changed time on another.

He's going to miss his blazer next year. He has all the important things in his life tucked away in those pockets.

MrsGuy - I was pleased with myself for having written all of DS and DSD's exams on our calendar. But then realised I'd got two of them on the wrong day Fortunately they do both have their own timetables too.

Really impressed that you know what the papers are and how she fells about them - she has a lovely mum! DH & I a bit deficient on that front, was preening that I knew which days the exams were

DD has igcse biology and chemistry on Tuesday and Thursday DD finds paper1 fine but paper2 which is mainly experiments hard

Same here with Biology Tues and chemistry Thurs. Then Spanish Fri.
His have been well spaced out, with German and Art now finished. I don't think there are any days he has more than one.
French yesterday was apparently 'easy' and his friends said the same, so hoping they didn't miss something there...

DS1 has Biology iGCSE on Tuesday and Chemistry iGCSE on Thursday. The multiple choice papers aren't too bad, but he finds the Extended Theory papers difficult, and will struggle to score more than 50% in the Chemistry one.

DD has igcse on Tuesday cats she's nervous and yes we are OCR for R.S

F&H it's ordinary GCSE and OCR.

DD has done R.S before at a previous school so isn't worried about the exam as she already has a gcse in it
Is it igcse exexcel cats did French?

Ds has ict theory, 2 chemistry and 2 biology papers next week.
He was out playing rugby most of today so serious revision will be required tomorrow.

F&H dd also has RS on Monday morning (and on Weds too) - was beginning to think we were the only ones. (I think I said RE earlier).
French Listening and Reading exams on Tuesday morning.
dd already has Core Science GCSE, as she did these exams in Y10, so no Science exams until after half term here.

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DS is quite focused today - he got up early to finish a paper and is now revising Biology. I've just bought him several tubs of Ben & Jerry's ice cream to keep him going

First exam is Monday R.S Tuesday we have French listening and reading and writing

I think we have biolog on Tuesday also, and then chemistry on Thursday. It's a light week compared to last week (6 exams over 4 days)

Ds has had problems with tassomaimals on. He hasn't done much due to the exams last week.

We got an email regarding six form induction yesterday. He has to go in six form 'uniform'. Ie. A suit. Aaaahhhh. Where do I get a long lasting, stylish, suit from? What shops are 'in' and 'out'?

Dd is the same as yours raspberry - her first is French on Tuesday then nothing til English the following week.
Her last official day at school is next Friday, but will go in for revision sessions most days I think.

This weekend will be a mixture of revision and socialising - she is having 12 friends over tomorrow for dinner for her birthday. They usually would have all stayed over but they have decided to finish at a sensible time and go home instead so they can get a good day of revision done on Sunday.
She will teach her usual dance and drama classes on Saturday morning, and then has a rehearsal for her theatre group's summer show.
So definitely not a weekend of constant revision!

DD has French on Tuesday, then nothing til the week after, Eng Lit, Maths and Biology.

A level choices were handed in in February at her school. Though she's hoping they'll have changed an option block so she can do Drama, and they haven't finalised it yet.