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Finishing year 13 in 2017

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HSMMaCM · 01/04/2017 15:21

Hi all. Keep in touch with uni offers, new jobs, gap years, exams, etc. We can get through his Grin

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dingit · 25/06/2017 14:25

I'm devastated to tell you my dad passed away last night. I didn't get here in time. I'm now waiting for a flight home, so I can cuddle my dc Sad

bigTillyMint · 25/06/2017 08:06

So sorry to hear that dingit. Am sending good luck vibes for your DD and you and your dad.

Horsemad · 24/06/2017 22:26

Sorry to hear your news dingit. Good Luck to your DD, thinking of your Dad too.

teta · 24/06/2017 22:15

Dingit, good luck to you and your father!
Your dd wil be fine.
Look after yourself Flowers

dingit · 24/06/2017 22:05

Thanks everyone. I didnt think of that, just pinged an email before I go.

bebumba · 24/06/2017 21:41

Sorry to hear your news dingit.
Another one sending your DD good luck.

aginghippy · 24/06/2017 21:34

Flowers dingit
Good luck to DD and good vibes all round

LittleHo · 24/06/2017 21:26

So sorry to hear all this terrible news.

Sending your dd good luck vibes dingit and wishing your df well.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/06/2017 21:20

Flowers dingit - so sorry to hear that. Best wishes for your DD and her exams this week, and to you and your DF.

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HSMMaCM · 24/06/2017 21:17

Dingit have you told the college. She might get a dispensation for family upset or whatever.

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HSMMaCM · 24/06/2017 21:17

Dingit. Take care of yourself. Our children are very resilient.

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dingit · 24/06/2017 21:14

Oh gosh that s awful.
My dad has had a heart attack and I fly to Corfu in the morning. Please send my dd good luck vibes for her final exams. If the worst happens she will not be told until afterwards.

ono40 · 24/06/2017 20:04

Haffdonga, how sad and shocking for everyone, you're right it really does put things into perspective.

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HSMMaCM · 24/06/2017 17:43

Haffdonga your poor son. He must be shocked. I learned to appreciate my DD and put life back into perspective just before GCSEs. Sometimes we get too tied up in the here and now to appreciate what we have.

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bigTillyMint · 24/06/2017 16:46

Oh no, that is so sad Haffdonga. Terrible Sad

JugglingFromHereToThere · 24/06/2017 16:39

How awful Haffdonga I'm so sorry for the family and all her friends, and for you and your DS, and for everyone who knows her.
Such a tragic loss.

We lost a young person in our wider family a couple of years ago and it does forever mean you have a different perspective on life.

Horsemad · 24/06/2017 16:20

Flowers Haffdonga, that is so sad and really puts things into perspective.

That poor family and the wider community who knew the girl. Sad

Haffdonga · 24/06/2017 15:48

I've been following this thread along with you all going through the same ups and downs with ds2. (He's got chem and bio left and flagging now that friends are starting to celebrate finishing). Unfortunately he's just heard the devastating news that a girl in his maths class was hit by a car as she was walking home from C4 exam and has died. Although she wasn't a close friend he is profoundly shocked, as am I. I don't really know why I'm posting except to say cherish your beautiful young people as they start the next steps into their adult lives. A level grades are not what matters. Flowers

bigTillyMint · 24/06/2017 14:33

Feel so sorry for those who arent finished yet, especially those who go to the 29th.

DD was out clubbing till 5 this morning then up at 8.30 for work, now sleeping as she has an 18th tonight from 6 - pub and clubbing. Oh to be young again!

LittleHo · 24/06/2017 14:00

My daughter's floor is a highly organised filing system. It looks like an almighty mess to me.

Two more exams on Monday and Thursday.

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HSMMaCM · 24/06/2017 13:16

Dd is going out at 3. She says she doesn't know what to do until then as she has no revision. I suggested she possibly has time to pick up some clothes from her floor. I got .

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olliepolly · 24/06/2017 11:52

Paper 3 for bio and Chem seems even more uncertain than the rest.Fingers crossed for them Teta that it ends ok on Tuesday.

teta · 24/06/2017 11:33

Dd also has Bio and Chemistry next week.She took the afternoon off after the Maths in the morning and returned to work in the evening.I think she's worried about this new Bio paper and the essay.In the mock they did shortly before the exams started she was told her essay lacked detail.In the previous practice papers she was told she had incorporated too much detail Confused.
Congratulations to all of you that have finished.Yes, it is strange that their lives ride on these very few exams.Errol I'm seriously impressed at your dd and dhs enthusiasm for their subject.

olliepolly · 24/06/2017 10:35

Gone off the boil a bit here, final 2 exams bio 3 Monday, Chem 3 Tuesday. Trying some gentle encouragement to keep the motivation going.

tobee · 24/06/2017 10:29

Ds in weird situation of having finished all but one exam which isn't until Thursday - English literature unseen texts - so not so easy to revise for. Seem to remember dd having similar gap with her last (German) exam 4 years ago. Thinking of helping him tidy his revision space so he doesn't have that hanging over him afterwards. Currently "bomb hit it" status.

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