GCSEs 2018 (15) The Reckoning

My friend uses Ziffit.com phone app to sell books. You just scan the barcode and it gives you a price. Once you've got £10/worth they'll collect them from you if you box them up. Recent revision guides are definitely wanted.

Charity shop book shops would love them as well. Only recent 9-1 style ones, but we've got mostly those.

Bluebelle that sounds like it's going to be an eventful 2 weeks!! He sounds bonkers but cute.
I'd take revision guides to charity shop - if heavily written in they're basically only fit for recycling, though.
I'm holding on to books for DS2. One enterprising friend of DS was trying to sell his revision notes to his brother but not surprisingly didn't get far with that idea!
DS does need to sort out his stuff - I may leave that project to the weekend, though!

BlueBelle123 that sounds high maintenance!

On no @BlueBelle123 ! We're about to go on holiday and are leaving our terrier with PIL. I rather suspect he will give them the literal run around but I'm so grateful to them that I would completely understand any mishaps. They are, I am afraid, pretty standard with terriers.

Be sure to keep expensive sandals out of his reach. I have lost two pairs this summer.

DS is keeping revision guides for his a level subjects in case he needs to look up things he's forgotten. Keeping notes for physics and CS. Rest of notes have been binned (he says if he has to retake English he will start again from scratch)

I want him to take the other revision guides in to school in case anyone else can use them but he's reluctant - would charity shops want them ? any ideas ?

Well we've had an eventful 24 hours, looking after a friend's terrier for two weeks whilst they are away.

Within 2 hours of him arriving he'd eaten the fish food (presumed if ok for fish must be ok for dogs!)
Whilst playing with him in the garden he managed to injury his paw, once the bleeding had stopped it looked like no real damage, a sore paw
In the evening having spent all day limping he developed diahorrea (fish food???) and so I wanted to keep him outside whilst I cleaned him up, so shut patio door, he didn't realise and went cartoon like straight into the door........I don't think he was concussed
I then get a text from friend asking how his first day went ........I said he survived!!!!
You may not believe it but I love dogs..........

Materials I paid for (textbooks not provided by school, revision guides):

• same subjects/exam boards DD or DS3 will be doing: saved for them
• unopened/unused revision guides: will sell these
• the rest has been donated to a charity taking textbooks to less economically developed countries.

Materials created by DS2: all recycled

Just checking on because I'd fallen off the thread

Three weeks today people!!

We had an amazing holiday. We were very lucky to miss getting caught up in the earthquake that trapped lots of people on the volcano we trekked up a week earlier.

Back to reality now which means work for me and laying around doing nothing for dd.

Today's task for her is to tackle the box of revision notes that has been untouched since she dumped each subject in it during exam season.

How much have your dcs kept or passed on?

Dd has to take her results on the first day of term. They have an induction week.

The local FE college (which was DS1's plan B) has its registration/induction day the day after results day, which is a bit tricky for the hundreds of applicants who will be at Reading festival.

Please pretend my stray apostrophe is another optical illusion for the evening!

No school scrums here, as our school's don't have 6th forms. The colleges seem to enrol over 3 days from 24th onwards. If you miss your slot you simply go to your next choice of college until you arrive at the right time!

When DS1 did his GCSEs, the Y11s were able to collect their results from 9am and internal candidates could confirm they were accepting a place at the sixth form anytime from 9 (registration was in the same room).

From 10am, registration opened for external candidates who had met the grades for their offer (and for external pupils who hadn't been given an offer but got higher grades than expected and wanted to see if there were any places left).

DS1 was finished by 9.15 so we left. The queue of external candidates was already the length of the building and around the side.
I have no idea how they managed to collect their results so quickly. Unless they sent a parent to hold their place in the queue while they were collecting their results?

Remember “that dress” optical illusion?

mmzz because they have 250 year 11s to deal with first, then 250 year 10s to deal with between 12-1. There will be no staff available to mess around with results after 23rd and college enrolments start on 24th. If they don't turn up at their chosen college at the allocated enrolment time with their results envelope, they have lost their place.

I also read NOT and thought that doesnt make sense then re-read the post and read GOT - must be an optical illusion.

Cubscout - Sorry

Resevoir you got me looking at my post about 6 times!

Stickerrocks that would give me major stress!
mmzz apologies - only just catching up with thread but Ellen explained it. Also remember everyone's taking 10+ subjects and DS's cohort is 240 boys. Most people will want the levels not the marks but the teachers have them in case of queries/checking requests.

I went with my DD for results but I'm not sure my DS will allow me to go this time. Might have to hover round the corner... not sure. We have to input them online for the new school to see if he's got the grades for his A level choices.

I wrote out my best case and worst case predictions the other day (in private for me). They both ended up with an average score in the 6s so it didn't seem to make much difference. But I have to admit I was being terribly cautious about best case.

Anyone else done this?

I will never let on to DS about this - but I was pretty accurate in my predictions for DD.

stickerrlcks I now have an image of you nose pressed against the school door seeing your DDs result envelope but it's 12.01

I've taken a look at the school's website & results will only be handed out between 11-12 on 23rd. Any uncollected results cannot be retrieved until school starts again in September. I will spend the next 3 weeks fretting about things which could prevent us from getting to school until 12.01!