GCSEs 2018 (14): the aftermath

Congrats to al finishing the exams today. Fabulous cake and banner - setting parenting goals to another level. . Have a lovely summer. I will pop in here and there.

DD having a fantastically busy time since exams finished. From birthday celebrations, impromptu visits to see musicals and concerts, dinners and lunches and afternoon teas, time at my work and a camping weekend coming up. She is exhausted from having too much fun. Much prefer this to the exhaustion from the studies though. Poor thing is poorly too as I think all the stress is coming out now. She will need this summer to recuperate.

And to Third and Peaseblossom

Calzone the cake looks sooooo good!
Congrats to you and Sostenueto and to Kitties DS!

Its over , very happy ds here .Just want them all to have a great relaxing Summer !

Great cake calzone

DS2 not really into cake, but has a pile of new books on his current favourite subjects (D&D, marine biology) waiting for him when he gets home from Further Maths.

Would loooove a bit of calzones cake!

Now, next big challenge is how to keep the DC occupied enough ( brainwise).

Came home from treatment to find 4 posts put in in the garden ready for phase 3 done by dd and dgd and next door neighbour supervising (aged 84 and fit as fiddle!). They were posts I meant to put in before treatment but had ran out of steam! Also gardener had dug up and removed huge magnolia tree which has given much more light and space. Will be able to put sandpit in for dog when better.
Bless all who helped mes and s

Congratulations to Sostenueto and DGD too, and everyone else who finished today!

Ahhh Calzone that cake looks amazing! Love the banner too! Congratulations to your DS, enjoy!!

Well done all! The end has arrived and we all survived,! Wayhay!!!

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WE HAVE FINISHED!!!!!!

It'll brighten some poor exam marker's day if they work out that the candidate is writing about bunking off to go to a concert instead of revising German the night before!

We've finished!! German was today I am at work and will find out how he did later...

We are off to 6th form college parents introduction this evening.

Jufus nice to hear your dd was OK today.

Ha ha you can claim you knew that question would come up and it was essential revision !! Well done for finishing and huge best wishes for a great two years at 6 th form - you deserve it.

4 more hours to go here - 2 hour afternoon exam plus extra time !

...and we are done! DD said German went really well and she wrote about the concert last night!! Dropped her off at a friend's house for the afternoon :)

Goodness! I know this is the GCSE thread but can I have a quick derail here to mention that against all expectation, her autistic older brother has rung to say he's passed his 2nd year degree course?

PeggySchuylar Send her out to buy higher heels? Or stilts?

We have failed on the 'unusual prom transport' front. I have told DD she has two days to learn to ride the unicycle in the garage.

Good luck everyone today and tomorrow, the end is near!!! 🍀🍀🍀 I am going to pop in less regularly too, following on teen's sample, in order to be more productive before I break for hols. I also wish to forget about GCSEs for a while like I just woke up from a nightmare and everything is pink again...till the 23rd, that is. "See" you all then although I will be travelling at the time, Wifi unknown.
sost sending lots and lots of good energy for you.

I can just imagine Stickerrocks!
My first gcse class with 17 year olds led to a number of warnings about the potential injuries to themselves of leaning back in their chairs. Sigh.

We have a classroom with circular tables & chairs with wheels. I can only trust "proper grown ups" in there, because the younger students will spend their whole day swivelling & sit with their backs to me!

Very true Stickerrocks! The Y6 group were all as bad as each other but if it had been one of them disrupting the rest they would have lost their place on the course for that reason. Also it was a short course so at least I could see the end in sight! (Adults can be a lot worse in my experience and really spoil things for other learners.)
I'll never forget my mistake in letting those Y6 kids sit on chairs with wheels...

Loose some of the biggest pains in the proverbial I teach have gone onto get fantastic exam results, but it's their impact on the rest of the class which is the issue and the knock on effect on their teachers. I love it when one of my students tells me they had a dreadful time at school, but now they're taking their final professional exams and have a great future ahead of them. It's just such a shame for those they disrupted along the way.

Best of luck to everyone today.

I can confirm DS1 has done exactly as I expected and taken to sleeping late and gaming. I'm WFH today so will send him out on some errands and put him on dog walking duty.

I may also insist on a bedroom tidy.

End of school BBQ tomorrow. Very low key affair but the big excitement will be the arrival of girls! It's a boys school which admit girls for 6th form. Will shake things up I think.

DDs prom is tomorrow and I haven't shortened her dress. She only decided to go last minute.

Good luck today everyone.

final exam today - Statistics.

Then the countdown to results day.