Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

Bertrand a 3 hour school session and a quick run through on the morning sounds like plenty to me!

DS is also having the evening off and I will be very happy if he spends 4 hours tomorrow working on physics but to be honest he is so shattered I will probably leave him asleep until midday.

That is awful possum

Mad hope your DD sorts it out

DS treated us to a blow by blow account of his answers to the history exam ( AQA - Wild West) - sounds as if he wrote in detail ( kept trying to ask him what he wanted for tea and he would say something like 'but I haven't told you what I wrote for qu 2 yet'. Most uncharacteristic! Chemistry was ok I think but I'd lost the will to live by the time he got onto talking about it.

Possum that's appalling of the school!

And mad what a mean-spirited thing to do, excluding two girls.

DD1 reports History went well, but all the writing this week has aggravated her shoulder injury for which she is having physio. Fortunately it's just sciences from here on in so no endless screeds required.

Blimey, Possum, that's completely pants of the school. They really seem to have let her down.

Madhairday - I spent weeks this time last year counselling/comforting a year 11 student whose friends had all turned on her over prom hairstyles (!) and who was distraught for most of her GCSE period.

Just the year 11s kicked out.

Down to the last 3 exams.

DS has Philosophy / Ethics paper 2 tomorrow, Physics on Friday and a random MFL writing paper mid next week. He's on his knees, bless him.

Possum-what about all the other years?

At this stage Bertrand it sounds like plenty to me. My DS is planning a quick glance at Primrose Kitten at some point tomorrow...

Well exam leave started yesterday morninng after maths. All the kids were thrown out of school and the gate locked.....this was after an email saying there would be study space for anyone who wanted to stay.

Dd told one of the teachers she had no money, no phone and lived 7 miles away and the school bus doesn't leave until 4pm. Was told bad luck and the gate locked.

She spent the afternoon in a park in a dodgy part of town watching drug deals going down and blokes pissing in the bushes by her.

I was on the phone to school at 8am! Theyre very sorry. And this is just after an email from school warning about a flasher in the area!

On a more positive note chemistry which she was dreading went well. I helped her with some revision last night but struggled as I have zero chemistry knowledge. But two of the six mark questions were on stuff we covered.

Mad for your DD - sounds really mean and unnecessary tbh.

Tiggy - yes, the start of the exams feels like eons ago, and yet it still seems like yesterday I was sweating over the amount of revison DS had in front of him and the GCSEs were 'only' 3 months away. Now I can't believe the amount of recycling that's going on in this house - reams and reams of past papers, revison notes and files being unceremoniously dumped into the wheelie bin. I'm clinging onto the books though... Two exams left here...Roll on next Tuesday

Ds is giving himself a night off because he's got a 3 hour physics revision session at school tomorrow and one of the Head of Science's speciality gallops through the syllabus on Friday morning, so that's plenty. Apparently.

Did I mention I think he might be a bit too laid back??

dd was doing history B too (so that's history completely done now!). She thought the 20s question & Hitler's Germany were really nice, wasn't that impressed by the wording of the final part of the race relations question but she did get an opposing argument in though not as strong as she's have liked.

Mad, I hope your DD is ok X

History and Chem both fine. Just Physics and another history paper to go.

Dd happy with the exam but upset because a girl in her group has organised a party but left dd and one other girl out. Dd has no idea why. Ffs, do we need this drama in the middle of GCSEs? I thought girls were growing out of this now

So having to comfort her amidst trying to get her to revise physics. She's just at the end of it all so something like this is hitting her harder.

Ds said AQA History (spec B I think?) was really good and went well...and then told us he didn't put in too many dates, but lots of good analysis...?

Could be anything from A* to a C!

AQA History (Germany) 'a blessing'. DS so happy about it (tho as with some other DCs it's his favourite subject). P2 Friday and one more History paper next week - and then that's it! Where has the time gone?? It only seems like yesterday I was nagging the hell out of DS reminding him he only had 12 weeks until the start of the GCSEs. Time obviously flies when you're having fun

Chemistry igcse edexcel - last q was "mean"
History gcse edexcel - 8 marker on Nuremberg Laws 1935 was found tricky.

Ds liked the AQA history as well- but it is also his strongest subject.

AQA c2 and 3 "Hard".
AQA history (Germany) "Amazing", but is one of her strongest subjects.

"And completely screwed over the ones who just needed a basic grade to get through to the next bit of their lives."

⬆️⬆️ @BertrandRussel sums it up perfectly. l

Ds verdict on AQA higher chemistry C2 was easy, C3 harder, but the 6 mark question was the exactly the same as the 2014 past paper he did at the weekend!
Agree with all of you regarding the maths succeeding in putting able kids off maths.
Physics on Friday, then Graphics next Tues. Then breathe a sign of relief!

OCR Chemistry C4 C5 C6 was apparently great.
4 more to go...

History - went well, better than mocks means hopefully good news
Chemistry (AQA) - 'lit' .... really good, C3 was best paper she's had out of everything so far.

Can't believe she's almost done!