Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

ds still has 1 more to go, Tuesday :)

DD1 has hay fever too but is on antihistamines permanently to control her eczema so taking them is routine.

Physio review tomorrow, Peon is back to steady ache after last week's acute flare due to too much essay writing. It's a long road to recovery.

We've finished but just wanted to offer support to those who still have exams especially in this heat.

Thanks ifonly, I hope your dd's appt goes ok.

Ds is home until 1.10, then has a school revision session until 2. I said I'll drive him as it's a long walk otherwise.

He said the exam was good, he did lots of revision over the weekend. He wants to do a level biology, so fingers crossed.

DS has just done P1 this morning, last one mathematics, both Wjec in wales, tomorrow, then all, done for this year. At least until results in August!

So it looks like castle, Mad, Fancy and pointy will be here until Friday to keep me company! Anyone else?

DD just finished B3 this morning and has C3 on Wednesday and P3 on Friday - she's doing OCR 21st Century - I don't think anyone else on here is with that board. She's doing biology at A level - I wish she'd done more revision over the weekend but she kept saying she'd got it under control.

We've got a hospital appointment this afternoon, so DD will be frazzled after doing her exam in an internal hall (which gets hot even when it's cool) and then we have to bus it and walk 20 mins to get there this afternoon.

Fancy - that's no joke sitting exams with hayfever, I hope you're DS copes okay this week.

Ds said his school are allowing removal of blazers/ties in hot weather. And they are providing cold bottled water too.

Ds edexcel b3 today too. Exam wed and fri and then done.

Good luck to all dc with exams this week, not good weather for sleeping. Ds's hay fever is terrible too, despite starting loratadine early.

Ds has to go in sporadically at funny times for revision. He is finding it tough that all his friends finished last week, only 5 in year 11 doing triple science at his school.

I will be here Friday - last Physics exam.

Madhairday thanks. Cramming chemistry later then!

I'm just coming up with a summer reading list for ds. He will be pleased!

I'll still be here Friday castle!

Feel sorry for them today in this heat. Dd doing B3 edexcel. Anyone else? Hope they let them remove their blazers. Dd does her exams in the library which is even warmer than the Hall

Will I be the only one left on here by Friday!?

Revision here has been consistent but slightly more relaxed this weekend. A full day studying tomorrow, then final history GCSE on Tuesday.

DD has parties and prom this week, then two different weeks of work experience, followed by a few days off and then an Eastern Europe concert tour with school (and DD2) which should be fun.

She has then got a couple of weeks relaxing, seeing friends, visiting family round the country, going to some theatre shows, followed by our family holiday of just over two weeks. We will be back just before the GCSE results, which stops too much dwelling on it!

Then we will be away for the bank holiday and then a week and a half before school opens. It feels quite short put like that! I think she has a nice balance of being busy and resting. She briefly considered NCS, but it didn't work date-wise.

No open days here, but she will start researching university courses over the summer - she knows she wants to do German, but the question is where. But that's definitely a decision for another time.

Good luck all this week.

Dd has the same, Castle. She's exhausted and had enough - and it's far too hot. Not long to go now... I keep telling her to power through. She does want to do chemistry and biology a level so these are important to her but she's lost the will.

She's got a residential 'experience' in July at the uni she wants to go to, they put one on every year over a weekend. It's a specialist uni (think veterinary science/agriculture type of stuff) so part of the experience is milking cows at 6. 30am. She will adore this - truly. Strange child.

B3 Monday, C3 Wednesday, P3 Friday. Dd had enough. Too hot. Change of teachers etc means she seems to be learning most of these modules from scratch, cramming it in. After 6 weeks she's shattered and upset these are going to bring the science 1s and 2s down. She doesn't want to do sciences for A Level so motivation lost.

Not quite at the end of the process for us. DS1's last A-level exam is Monday, DS2's last GCSE paper is Tuesday. This weekend practically no revision is being done, because it's far too hot to concentrate and hayfever seems to have gone berserk. We are all a snivelling mess.

Thanks to everyone for the supportive thread. It's been very encouraging to see we are all going through the same concerns at the same time.

Fingers crossed for the results they all need in August, so they can all move on to what they want to do.

Not really relevant, but the one thing that made my DD decide that she definitely wanted to go to uni was doing the NCS and staying in uni accommodation for a week. I think it helped her to visualise what the uni experience would be like.

well done ready They were sedate here ... though suddenly came alive at 11:30pm & wanted to tell me their life stories just as I was desperate for bed!

I think they meant for their dc they were the least important...

Indeed - as I clearly said!

DD has got to get very good grades in maths & three sciences - not just for her A levels but for university too. Dropping a grade in any other subject would not be ideal but obviously not such a big thing. French & geography were her first exams & I was gently joking that it would've been better for her given the loss of motivation as the weeks rolled on for those to be later & the sciences earlier. Hardly disparaging.

DD has a list of universities she wants to look at - it's a short list as she's interested in a niche subject. I'll give her a prod to check dates but right now I'm totally worn out & think my other kids need the focus on them for a while.

Well that was my first teenage/mixed sex/with alcohol party hosted & it was a success! They were all really well behaved, I think it helped that they were shattered
fleur guess what? End of July bday here too! Uncanny.....
I think a festival thread is a great idea. I'm now really excited for him but was initially v nervous about the whole thing. Top tips would be v welcome.

I'd be incredibly surprised if the domicile rules changed. Brexit doesn't effect these at all.