GCSE Results Collection

I'm going with DD but will wait outside, she wants to open the envelope on her own. As other have said, I need to be there in case we need to make an appointment to see someone at sixth form if there are any issues.

At the school I work out, most parents come in. It’s a lovely day, usually.

We have a very wide catchment too and on that basis, in my experience (lots of DC - on the last one now), almost all parents (well, one parent per DC usually) go in and lurk in the background or car park for GCSEs and far fewer - as in very few - go in for A Levels. I'm intending to do the lurking a way away thing for DD4 on the 23rd because that's what I did for the other seven DC.

Dd1 said that she would go in, collect it and come straight out and I could drive away before she opened it. She said that right up to the moment she sent me a text from inside the school saying she was staying in to open it with friends. I was left outside texting "Results? What have you got?" and things at intervals.

I'm not sure if all schools are like this, but it sounded like a mass slaughter was going on inside from the screaming. I think the screaming signified delight.

I can't remember what happened last yr, DH must have taken DD. Probably I'll take the teens this yr.

DS1 wasn't able to collect his GCSE results, so I did that for him - I was about the only parent actually in the hall, so I assume the done thing for parents there was not to go in. Picked him up later and whizzed round to enrol at his first choice of sixth form (another local grammar). Where it was probably a good thing that I did go in with him as they wanted all kinds of difficult information like who his GP was. Last year was DD's turn - we all waited outside while the girls went in and got their envelopes, then so our case once again whizzed off to another school for her to enrol in its sixth form.
DS2 next year, back at DS1's original school. So far, he seems to be intending to stay put, so, results willing, this time we may be able to skip the 'whizzing off to a different sixth form' stage in the process...

At my school parents wait outside or in cars. We expect them to meet/sign up for A levels independently barring massive issues or SEN.

Ds wanted a lift but I had to wait in the car. He wanted to chat about them as soon as he was out so I’m glad I was close.

DS1 didn't want me to go in with him, so I waited in a café around the corner. Five minutes later I received a text from him to say he needed me and could I come in (results were better than expected and he wanted support in making the next steps happen).

It's best to be not too far away, yet also invisible.

DS are emailed out between 6am and 6.30am.

Then the school.is open from 10 am if you need to discuss remarks etc.

I waited outside while dd collected hers.

It’s results day in Scotland tomorrow two of my DC are waiting for results. They will get them by txt at 8:00 am as they have signed up for the service. If they hadn’t then they would need to wait for the postman. No going to school to collect. Does everyone in England have to go to their school or college?

At my/DDs' school, like Aragog, most people live a distance away and parents will drive them in. With both DDs, they went in themselves to collect them and opened the envelope first before coming out to show me. Most of the parents did likewise, standing or sitting outside the building until their offspring came out.

This year, I have been a y11 form tutor. Several of my tutees asked if I could be there. I don't have to be as it is not directed time and I don't have one of my own children in the year group, but I am going in to (hopefully) share the good news with them and perhaps offer some comforting words to those who have not quite achieved their dream grades.

At DD's school most have parents around. Not in the building necessarily, but close by, often waiting in cars. But most pupils live a distance from the school anyway and obviously school uses, etc aren't running.

At present DD has asked me to drive her there, she will go in and get her envelope on her own. But she is currently adamant she won't open them in school but wants to come back home and open them there. Many of her closest friends are on academic scholarships and likely to be getting string of very high grades, or would be upset with dropping a grade or two. DD is much more your normal average child - and she doesn't want to feel she's being compared with them at that time, or deal with them crying over grades she'd be really pleased with. She's not told them the though, obviously.

Parents wait outside. Some kids like mine want to open the envelope in private

Parents here tend to go but hang around outside.

It's unlikely he will want you there in my experience. Ten years of teaching and only seen a handful of parents. I'm sure he will call you pretty soon afterwards though!

Good luck to him (and you!)

It’s a mix at our school but mainly parents wait outside - the kids come in on their own in general and collect the envelope.