Finishing year 13 in 2017

Only 12 more school shirts to iron, then that's it FOREVER!!

Wow, just realising that DD only has two more weeks of school before half-term when she goes on study leave.
School's not really over til after exams of course, and they have a final leavers assembly and leavers meal at end of June, which is a nice idea.

But only a few more days of watching DD and DS go into school together when I drop them off - they usually walk along together having a nice old chat!

DD stayed late tonight to go over vectors with the FM teacher, having mostly done maths all day, but has just printed off a physics paper for a change.

Last push now ladies!

DS's first exam is next week (resitting a Geog paper to hopefully bump up his grade). Study leave starts Mon 29th.

He's been doing lots of maths, so I'm hoping he hasn't neglected the other subjects.

HAM? Bloody predictive text!

DD's old bf did a Btec and 2 A's - fab to have something out of the way!

We just did the minimum thing and it was really quick - they sent a form that we had to fill in and return. I think it's May 31st?

Well done to your dd Hsmm.2 A levels doesn't sound so bad.
We haven't sorted out the student finance yet and dh is away.Can we change our application to just ask for the minimum loan instead of submitting our financial details?According Todd we have to submit the application in the next two days.
I've found really cheap flights for £66 but can't get hold of Dd at school.Sods law they will all be sold out by the time Dd comes home!

HAM, DD wishes she had chosen a Btec for that very reason!

Tera, that sounds really lovely.

Errol, mine has been doing loads of past papers too.In fact most of her revision appears to be Maths at the moment.I know Biology is relatively easy for her but I'm a bit concerned by the organic chemistry.
Dd and her friends have booked a weeks holiday in Mallorca to rest and recuperate after the exams and before the leavers ball.They just need to sort out the flights today.They're staying in my sisters house which is beautiful .I will pay dd's share of the costs as a present for baby sitting her brothers and sister over the weekend.

As 2 of DDs are maths, its endless past papers rather than revision for those, there seems to be a lot of diligent scribbling.

Teta - love the sign!
I think she deserves a reward too - that is quite a responsibility especially with stressful exams coming up!

Dd still quite calm but has taken to putting a notice up outside her room with sellotape 'Doing Mock, Do Not Disturb' .
She was in sole charge of the other three for two days as i was away for a long weekend and Dh had to go to China urgently.I think they lived on Pizza and noodles! Dd said the hardest thing was getting them to bed and took their phones off them at night.I think she deserves a financial reward.

Well done to your DD Juggling - I remember similar stress from GCSE Art.

Eight days left of school here. DS is getting a little panicky but I have told him he can go in and speak to the teachers any time during study leave. I think what is frustrating him is the lack of past papers for History where you really need to practise doing 'source' questions.

Yes Tilly, brilliantly helpful that art is done early (though that last sketchbook may yet prove more troublesome than I can currently imagine!)
But it would be a nightmare to do it all together.
Thankful for small mercies!

Phew - it's good to get that out of the way Juggling!

Art is finished - sort of!
DD reasonably pleased with her final piece, completed over 3 sessions with last session today. Sketchbook for the exam project has also been handed in.
So all that's left is final touches (I hope) on her earlier project's sketchbook, to be handed in for half-term.

So those other two subjects might start to get more of a look in now 😊

Thank goodness its the weekend.

Mine admitted she didn't actually get any sleep at all last night (in spite of the little white lie she told this morning) and was propping eyelids open today!

Mine seems better at deadlines than I am.

I think teenagers have a challenging time in managing their time towards deadlines HSM. DD had good intentions over the Easter hols and painted some lovely pictures. But that deadline for handing everything in together and actually having things stuck in and written up in the sketchbook still took her by surprise in the final stages. I wish I'd been more on the case to be honest, but she was being quite reassuring that she had it all in hand until the last couple of days where a degree of panic set in. I think she just about got away with it, but she cut it very fine. Will see what she says about it all and the first session of final piece today. I think she'll be having a night off this evening - sleeping!

Happy Birthday bebumba DS 😊