Starting secondary support thread 2

We have ShowmyHomework in theory but I can't access it nor can DS. They gave DS the details for him and us but he "lost" them and school don't know what they are.

DS likes to do lots of things tomorrow as well - he says its good as tomorrow never comes.

DH is in Paris this weekend. Cat is currently sleeping in his place in the bed purring away and DD has come and said this house is so much more relaxed without him around DD has been stuffing herself - she had two cheese toasties at 3am and then had a 13.5 pizza all to herself for lunch and was trying to persuade her brother to go to the shop a couple of doors down and buy her a big box of Valentine's chocolates. He refused but did go for the cat's tuna. The answers to the Intermediate Maths Challenge are out now and she thinks she'll have kangaroo. She thinks they may enter her for junior too and says this year she's trying for the Olympiad not like last year were she said she deliberately got just below as this year "there are boys I need to annoy".

I would be tempted to give your big, strong DS lots of tasks Witchend that you and his sisters can't do as weak females - does the gardening need doing, washing up is also surely too hard for a female too

DS was very keen on home schooling at primary - would ask how many things does a person have to do to get thrown out of school - would 12 be enough? How many have I done already?

The idea seemed to involve a lot of home but schooling was just maths and lazing around all day. I asked him to describe an ideal school the other day - 4 children, no lessons and you just eat junk food.

We are playing the guess DS's homework game - so far we have established the poetry one but not which poem, a self portrait for art (told him he should get his haircut so it would be less homework which he thought was very amusing), IVR which is actually IVF - a poster on it. 12 year old boys and reproduction lessons! And a mystery one. Told him his sister was IVF and he said well you wasted your money there.

DS recently went through his 2 year business plan to set up his YouTube gaming business about his views on Fornite, he doesn't even play it as that's wasting money. Took him about 1 hour to go through everything, the plan was impressive but also involves not needing to study at school.

Ours only do RE in year 10. DD has been asked to do French in y10 but am not keen, its different if say she was bilingual.

The criteria for evaluating subjects seems to be

1. Does this subject help people become rich ideally for minimum effort? No then its pointless, yes will consider against two.

1. Does it have clear rules so that only "an idiot" couldn't understand it and its not one of those other impossible subjects were rules aren't clear.

1. Can I be bothered to do this subject.

It was an advert for an education company with spelling errors.

I am sure DS would love to give his advice. There are few subjects that aren't pointless though so you may get just maths and economics on the list, everything else is a waste of your time. Engineering got a meh and science the same but English and practical subjects should be banned.

DS's views on DDs option choices Art / Music / Drama / Dance / Food Tech - all pointless subjects, can't make money with art, music or drama and you can learn to cook at home. Engineering & D&T he may do but business studies he knows everything already so nothing they can teach he so he only wants two choices not four. [Grin] Though he did add he enjoys drama. sure the drama teacher will be delighted he creates quite a lot of his own drama in drama. He says he won a sweet in science.

Hope everyone has a lovely half term next week.

DD is asleep and DS says he has 4 homeworks but can't remember what English homework is and has no password for Show my Homework. He said English maybe poetry or anarchy and can guess which of those two is likely to happen if ask him to do that one! DH is off to France for a couple of days. Will be nice to have kids at home but fairly boring week with meh weather.

DD was back in school today and came home and asked me if I had sent her science presentation for the group to the teacher. Said yes as she was ill and asleep. She said everyone didn't know how it arrived and a couple of boys said to me there's no way you wrote a presentation that well done

Got to choose DDs year 9 options soon - she's in year 8. Am looking at GCSE options and there's a lot.

Looks like compulsory next year is Eng x2, maths, double or triple science (and less PE), French and/or Spanish and RE but as 1/2 a GCSE, geography and history. Then they get to choose 4 out of business studies, engineering, food tech, design and technology and art, music, dance and drama. Business studies doesn't go to GCSE. She's very keen on engineering and links to companies here so makes sense. Design & Technology you can't take to GCSE with engineering - maybe useful though not sure. Food tech, well she's a veggie! She was very keen on business studies but its something else like OCR though the year 9 options you don't need to take to GCSE but if you don't take them you rule it out. She's vaguely thinking of engineering but wants double science to do PE more, think she might be better with triple though maybe double plus engineering is sufficient - triple is also an extra one, engineering a replacement so 9.5 or 10.5. Not keen on her doing loads unless good reason. She's very academic but lazy, quite maths / science preference though not biology. They do GCSE Stats too. DH is an engineer so should be able to help - I know they have trouble recruiting British students as they don't like education system here for engineering.

Wow we could start a which DS has refused a haircut for the longest competition on here, think yours may have won Cheminotte Think DS was late last year but DH always insists on not getting much cut off so he will want to go next time- argh, like that works.

DD didn't take her migraine medication as she's "saving it as there's only 6" - should get her to join one of those Brexit prepping threads. She says its not as bad as last two. Hope she can go in tomorrow and Friday otherwise she will go under the dreaded 90%