Current Year 10 2020/2021 support thread

@Muchtoomuchtodo and @StColumbofNavron
Thank you so much for your feedback x

I’m afraid my DC would be very reluctant to use any free time for more learning/school work. I’m also not that worried for DS in year 10 right now, he is on top of it and we have parents’ evening next week. He knows things could go a number of ways for assessment and is ready for all of them.

We had online parents evening last night for year 10 ds.

They’ve not covered quite a much higher level maths and obviously no practical science, DT or building and construction as they should have done but otherwise they’re all pretty much up to date and ds has been keeping up very well.

He will only have had 5 days in school before Easter and there’s no way that I’d be signing him up to online lessons during his holidays at the moment.

Hello wonderful ladies!

I think I originally posted in this chat ages ago ...

I wondered if you would all be willing to offer me your thoughts?
As you know, year 9's and 10's have missed so much of their education this year (and last!) and I wondered how worried you all are for the next year of their education? With that said, if you also have a year 11 teenager, how are they feeling?

I'm thinking of putting on a free master class during the Easter holidays for year 11's for Language papers ... my question is do you as mothers think is something you'd want your beloveds to sign up for?!

Sarah xx

He didn’t go into work!!! But apparently is going on Friday. Luckily domestic goddess I am not and I’ve got loads of work on so I’ve avoided everything.

Have to say DS1 and 2 were quite happy to be going back, you could just tell from the way they got everything ready etc.

@StColumbofNavron hoping you’re enjoying your day of peace and quiet! I bet you end up just doing chores. I wish DH would go back in to the office for a few days. It’s extra weird him
still being here and the kids being back at school.

I’ve caught DD having a little cat-nap just before dinner both nights this week. The early mornings are clearly taking their toll. DS is very sparky and seems really happy to be back. In his words “schools actually pretty decent, not gonna lie”. It’s unheard of for DS to be optimistic about school so it shows how much he was ready to go back. Hope it continues. 🤞

@Rollergirl11 my son did that for his weekly tutor time too

We aren’t back until tomorrow and it turns out DH is also going into work rather than WFH. That means that my house will be totally silent, I will be able to use the laptop or the PC at any desk I like for almost 6 FULL hours.

It was DDs first day back and she was glad to be back and caught up with her group of friends and looked after a new girl. No mention of any lessons

DS was here with me so I was doing all his lessons - he's back on Friday and have options evening for him on Thursday. For some reason the system comes up DS has no teachers - DS was very happy about this - so I contacted school and they just gave me 1 with the senco and nothing with subject teachers. Seems a bit odd but know about the subjects from DD so can work round it.

Solicitor called with the stamp duty to give us back as we bought this before sold the other. Lots of onesies here too - DS is Pudsey and DD is a bunny.

DS first day back too today. I was glad when it got to 10am as figured his first ever COVID test was negative (anxious about false positives). DS also reported wearing masks all day wasn’t too bad and his glasses didn’t steam up too much. He’s glad to be back with his friends and apparently the lessons were ok too!

@IThinkIMadeItWorse thanks for the link. I wish Gavin W would let us know ASAP but no doubt the actual details will be like they were for this years year 11 - all a bit too late.

DS returned to school today and said that wearing a mask all day "wasn't too bad" so I'm relieved about that as I thought it might be an issue for him. Sadly the weather for the rest of this week looks like it's going to be pretty rubbish which makes it harder to be outside :(

Also just saw this in the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/09/assessment-of-england-pupils-sitting-exams-in-2022-likely-to-be-adapted

@GhostTypeEevee oh yes wearing their onesie/pj’s will be sorely missed in this household too! DD had actually got in to the habit of doing her one weekly PSHE/tutor lesson first thing on a Thursday morning from bed. 😂

Everyone bar DH (who is still working from home) will be up by 7am in the morning. We haven’t got up at that time since mid December so will be a shock to the system that’s for sure!

I keep losing this thread - it's not showing in my active or watching lists.
Ds went for his LFT test on Friday, he had been invited in a few days before so he could see where and how it was being done. He was nervous on Friday as he felt like it was very busy and he's not used to it but was fine when he found his friends.

He seems to be looking forward to going back but is going to miss the numerous cups of tea and wearing his onsie for lessons

Finally got DS to try his school trousers on and they are too short (even though they are extra long length ones) but thankfully as they are M&S they can be taken down easily as someone mentioned further up the thread. Have got a stationary order coming Monday and then think he’s all set to go. Roll on Tuesday and fingers crossed he doesn’t get a positive or false positive on his LFT!

Glad you get your y10 back in a week Dulling

Close contacts still exists as before, there was a proposal to scrap it for those doing tests but that got overruled. After the first three tests in school its two tests a week at home for those that consented and if a child gets a positive at home they need a different test to confirm. Not sure which test close contacts is based on but hoping its not the lft as there's about a 0.1 to 0.3 false positive rate on lft. At least the first test there will have been no contacts before, so its tests 2 and 3 that could lead to isolations then at home ones.

DD had the Harvard Maths thing which was good experience but very difficult and only 5 out of 8 on the team where present. DD is back on Tuesday and DS on Friday.

Dulling ahhh that’s good to hear that DD at least is back in on 15th.

I was very impressed by our schools testing operation. It was very slick and DC’s were in and out within 5 minutes. They have another test this week and another the following. I have to admit I’m not sure what happens after that. I’m assuming that we will still have students out SI from close contacts like the September term. They did away with the lft tests to replace close contacts didn’t they?

Another Welshie here.

Year 8 dc will be in for 2 days before Easter and year 10 for 5 days,

I’m not sure it’s worth it for the year 8’s. Mixing 240 kids from across the whole county. I’d rather have another month to get figures really, really low.

News in from our Welsh schools. Year 10 DD back full time from the 15th, Year 7 DS will get two days a week until Easter.

Hello all, fell off the thread for a while, will try to catch up!

DD is back on Wednesday 10th, first LFT the day before then two more the week after. I've volunteered to help in school with the testing so I have a pack of them to "do" on myself as well.

DD is in two minds about going back in - on the one hand she really wants lessons again and to catch up with her - admittedly very small - set of friends in person. But on the other she's not looking forward to the whole noisiness of everyone in, and has admitted to being anxious about answering questions in certain lessons as the so-called popular kids make her very uncomfortable. This is a girl who can quite happily walk into a room full of new adults at my volunteering group and chat comfortably, and also started training with a new football team last winter on her own with no qualms so not really sure how to try and help her. I've settled for encouraging murmurs for now, and will see how next week goes.

So, I think my 2 are both going back on the 15th (in Wales). But I’m not sure.

Thanks Silkies .

Its up to the school whether there are lots of assessment, ours asked parents and then decided no before Easter but would imagine there will be after Easter.

Hi everyone, my DS is going back also on Monday hopefully . Anyone knows if they will get a lot of small assessments so the schools understand the gaps they have ?

Hey to everyone! 👋

My sympathies to all of those in Wales that aren’t able to go back just yet. What a PITA!

And congrats to all those that have done well in the IMC. DD did it but she says school only contact them if they have done well. I told her what some of you guys have said on here, that she can log in to the website and get her score but she says she knows she did badly and so she doesn’t want to know. I can’t budge her on this so I guess we’ll never know unless her teacher tells her. 🤷‍♀️

Got new shoes for both DD and DS. They hadn’t had new since September 2019 so thought they could do with some. All other people uniform is fine.

DD is going in for her lft today and DS tomorrow. And then hopefully we’re all good to go for Monday. Think we will all struggle getting up earlier on Monday, that’s the only thing I’m not looking forward to! 🥴🥱😴

Well done to your DS Its that's the same as DD got.