GCSE’s summer 2020 thread 5 - And then there were none..

So surreal thinking how different today would have been. DD probably would be celebrating with friends or we'd have gone out for a meal. Physics paper 2 here too for DD today had it gone ahead.

She's just shrugged when I told her she would have had physics today whereas a couple of weeks ago she was all "Oh wow really".

It's weird how she's adapted to sleeping in til late morning and sometimes not getting dressed all day. September is going to be a shock. I'm pretty certain she'll be going back then as her 6th form is c. 50 students in total so classes of 2-4 especially in subjects that DD is taking. She's nearly finished the A level work she's been set over the exam period as well as extra maths per week that they encourage them to complete. Hopefully a break will be in order before her A level summer work gets set.

She's been asked to apply for a senior leadership role (like a prefect but for 6th formers but to oversee the whole school cohort). It looks quite involved so I wonder if it may be too much with A levels. She wants to apply though and is honoured to have been chosen to apply.

Had a phone call from the pastoral head for year 11 so I've been impressed by how they've been keeping in touch and interested in their wellbeing. It was good to get some queries answered too.

On another note we would have been going to a wedding tomorrow and in a couple of weeks too so such a shame.

Will there be a new thread as just realised this one has nearly filled up

Cheers!, @ZandathePanda
OP thanks for reminding me to get DS to apply for his PS, also we never got a timetable either. I think they were just checking it to see if there were any clashes well the whole show fell apart. I do however, have a diary entry for 20th August from last year that says ‘results day, rejoicing day!’ .
Re: resits, DS plans to resit Maths if he doesn’t get a 7 as that’s the requirement for the course at the university he really wants to apply to.

DD would have finished exams today too.
It feels...odd.
I wonder how anticlimactic it might have felt if they’d actually sat the exams? Or maybe it would have been a huge relief and party time?

Anyway, to the exams that never were. Hopefully, we’ll look back one day and be able to have a chuckle about it all.

DS would also have been finishing today! Funny how GCSEs were all consuming and seem so remote at the moment.

Until I saw it in here I totally overlooked that Ds would have been finishing up today too! He should have been going off on a trip with his sports team next week.

Today would have been last exam here too.
I made DS put his blazer on for a photo, was hilarious with his long lockdown hair!

When we went into lockdown exams still felt so far away and now here we are at what would have been the end of them. DS has waited 2.5 months for his passport so he could get a supermarket job and now none of them are looking for staff!

Yes, dd would have finished on Wednesday! I really hope things will be much better in another 12 weeks and sixth form can start normally. That would be amazing!

I agree, I think the year 11s have come out of this quite well really, it must be hard for years 10 and 12. Ds is year 9 and has started GCSE courses in quite a few subjects but hopefully he’ll have time to catch up - depending on how next year looks.

Should have been the last day here too - DS's exams would have finished with Physics.

I think Year 11 has been better than being year 10 or year 12. My daughter is a September birthday Year 9 and I've been feeling glad she wasn't born a few weeks earlier.

Haha, yes, end of exams here too . How different the world has been from what we expected a few months ago. Just hope next term is not as badly affected as some people fear it will be. I think on the whole that being in Y11 has been much less bad than being in Y10 or Y12 so far.

Just looked on the calendar and I had drawn a little party hat as it was supposed to be the last GCSE exam today for Dd.

No idea what she’s going to ‘get’ but anyone want to join me in saying ‘cheers in trying to be indifferent!?’

@OrangeCinnamon your DD sounds lovely! How nice for your MIL.

That’s lovely news x

DD is over the moon that we can form a bubble with widowed MIL ...she has been dropping off food with DH and having chats in garden , so news is timely given the weather. They are making plans via whatsapp and she is packing her bags right now for a sleepover
Anyone else?
Got two weeks leave in July won't be able to go on our planned spanish hol...thinking about renting a local cottage just for a change of scenery pref walking distance to a beach ...we gave credit from our planned easter trip. Am I bonkers?

I lost this thread. We have a competitive swimmer fed up with land training and a football and hockey player. Football have been doing some coaching by zoom, hockey have started planning to get on the pitch again but segregated into pairs or family groups only.

DS's school have told them their results will be released onto the school portal and that they can come in if they need to change track based on the results, but only core staff will be in, so it will be very low key compared to previous years. DS is a borderline 4 in English so we are nervous. He may have to resit that in November but hopefully nothing else. He is feeling a bit down now thinking that they should be celebrating the end of exams and having fun stuff planned for afterwards. We have booked a UK week away for the week before results day in the hopes of taking all
our minds off it all.

Like @Comefromaway DD2 was supposed to have a show at the end of March but it's been postponed to Autumn. DD3's diving competitions (including her favourite) and DD1's rowing events (also including her favourite) have all been postponed until then at the earliest too.

Exciting that people are going back to activities.

Netball for oldest DDs (they do both local club and city U19/Y17 teams) have announced that they're rolling out plans for return which is exciting. DD2's online dance classes have been great and she's been jumping on other studios'. I am yet to see anything about being back to real life dance classes at either studio.

DD3 is a mad diver so has time for nothing else and like the swimmer is waiting on Swim England guidance...

Ds really misses his theatre group. He should have been performing in a show later this month, and we think the November show will be cancelled too.

Kingscote that will certainly prove a distraction ! I think it's great to share your passion and give back to your club.

DD is at a training session this afternoon to prepare for coaching 5 Under 7s on Wednesday!

DS is thrilled to be back on a tennis court. Have to say the social distancing measures seem to be followed. Hand sanitiser bottles fastened to the netting around the courts.

That does sound exciting @kingscotestaff and intriguing 1

DD jazz collective has gone online - then again lots of music has ... I can't imagine the cricket though?

No - we have a swimmer - just land training stuff on the club website. Swim England are producing some return to the pool guidance next week so we are all getting a bit too excited!