Gcses 2019 support thread 5

Pointy so sorry, how awful for you all.
Glad geography seems to have gone well for dcs today

Happy Birthday to Master Buffy 🥳

It’s so lovely to see everyone’s DC smashing the geography🏆

DS back from Eduqas geography which he said was fine. Just physics to go!

I was looking again at his final predicted grades this morning. I think science was more than a bit overoptimistic, but from what he's said, the rest should be on target.

Yes, one more, one more, one more, one more!!! Can't wait.

DD2 doesn't drink. She tried bits and pieces and says she doesn't like the way it makes her feel. And with our recent history of having and losing her alcoholic dad that isn't surprising.
She isn't a party animal anyway.

DD beaming at AQA geography. Thank god she's confident in something.

Physics tomorrow then DONE. Wow, what a 5 weeks we've had.

DS said OCR B was OK as well. He totally predicted the question last night (sustainability in Leeds). Last night he said to me he thought it would be sustainability of a city, as they had done all the other options between the sample papers and last year. And we even mentioned Leeds, because a friend of ours in Year 12 wants to do geography at University, and apparently wants to go to Leeds as that is the best course for the type of geography that interests her.

dh picked ds up and dropped him off at gym.
He apparently said geog was 'fine'

don;t you love it when they communicate?

seeing the comments up thread about prom, I've just realised that means SHOES (sobs into arms on the table)
ds is size 13, which means unavailable in shops and very, very fussy about shoes, and if they don't support his arch he won't wear them.

He may be doing beautiful suit plus trainers!

DD also said similar about AQA geog

DS said Geography AQA was brilliant and he smashed it. :) 4 more to go!

Much the same here - ds said Chemistry was fine and that German was ridiculous. Day off today, physics tomorrow and then more German on Monday. Then we can talk prom ...

Tidying up the revision den will be number one priority this weekend.
However, originally DD was going to burn all her notes, but we decided that was not very environmentally friendly, then we decided she could recycle them all. Now, apparently, she and her friends have all decided to keep their notes in case they need to do retakes. Oh dear, not much confidence there then .

Oh god am scared! She can't be too hungover, she's got German on Monday!!!
I remember flushing a contact lens down the sink after thinking I'd managed to convince my parents I was sober...contact lenses were expensive then and dad took the u-bend off to find it. Yuck!
Helpful advice about not going to town on the dressing up - will pass that on.

Dd stumbled up the stairs and broke the glass she was carrying because ‘she got distracted because she was holding her trainers’

We had being sick out of the car window "because she ate a burger then went on the trampoline"

Someone brought what appeared to be ouzo in a cherry pop bottle to one of DD's parties! They all drink Echo Falls, fruit cider or Sourz.

Very much vodka with both the girls and the boys. Don’t think it’s changed much as I still remember sitting in a park with a bottle of glens.
arewedone love the imagery you’ve created with your son’s description

Sorry, wrong thread!

BTW, I notice that a highly selective sixth form that wants six GCSEs at grade 8/9 for entry are saying "It does not include a foreign language that is a candidate’s home language or native tongue. " Clearly the sixth form feel they can identify.
Not sure if they would count one where a parent speaks it as a native, but it is not the "home language" - arguably while still and advantage, if the home tongue is English (ie the method of communication between the parents and children), that would not be included.

Readyforsunshine- so funny but true. DS in a nurses uniform and blonde wig. Trying to walk upstairs pretending he hasn’t had a drink or falling asleep in the back of the car because he’s”tired”
My Dd has attended some of the parties over the last year that Ds has and she has no interest thankfully in alcohol despite it being around.
I do insist on collecting them and don’t mind ferrying friends. Dd tells me vodka is a thing with the girls, disguised as water in water bottles which is worrying, hopefully if the parents are around though it should be ok and Dd will have a great time!

mine slunk off for Geography thismorning - DS has been working very hard, DD sat on her phone all evening and did nothing.

Yesterdays chem went OK for triple, dd said combined was "meh" - which meant it went badly. SHe needs science to do her BTec choice, so this will not end well.

German wa a mare, said DS.

DD has 1 more - physics tomorrow.

DS has 4 more - physics, 2x further math, plus german

Im exhausted!

Glee first party here for dd too, similar situation. I do however have lots of teenage party experience from ds!!
Fancy dress for girls tends to be a nod towards, if anything. Boys seem to get more into it, particularly judging by the photos I’ve seen, yes ds you in Hawaiian shirt, goggles, unicorn inflatable tyre & squid hat for beach themed party many of the girls you wouldn’t have known were in fancy dress.
Early parties parents provided alcohol so as to be able to manage amounts, unless specifically asked to bring own. Girls seem to drink cider black fruits, a disgusting seeet wine the name of which escapes me or sometimes mixed bottle drinks. For early parties, much to his distress, I insisted on speaking to parents to check he was going where he told me, full address, phone etc. I did seem to be in the minority as no parent ever contacted me when I was hosting. I warned him about not overdoing it & also being responsible for others that may be vulnerable to having drunk too much &he was actually pretty responsible, initially
This fairly quickly progressed to full on hardly knowing where he was most w/Es, a lot of stress & rebellion & has now thankfully settled down. I really hope I don’t have similar with dd 🤞