Current Year 10 2020/2021 support thread

Oh no @silkiecat that sounds really tough. I am so thankful that we haven't had to isolate and home school (so far), counting the days until the Christmas holidays!

@silkiecat that sounds really tough for you and DS (would be but a bit early!
We had tears last night, DD is mostly an only - two older stepbrothers who she adores but aren't here a lot - and so hasn't seen anyone apart from in school for weeks. First match back due Sunday and our local FA have decided to go against the government guidelines and cancel all grassroots football until at least January. DD is devastated, it's the only thing that was keeping her going over lockdown. A bit outing but Lancs FA have had complaints coming in overnight and everyone is hoping it will be overturned.......
At least online learning has gone well this week!

Oh @silkiecat, I want to make you a cup of tea and sit down with you for a bit.

Thanks. We're not allowed people in the house here next 2 weeks so had to cancel plumber and electrician here, quite annoying as we have 2 leaking taps and one light in bedroom not working and then its very close to Christmas. Had to cancel his orthodontist and hairdressers too.

Estate agent will hopefully be able to let electrician into old house so that should go ahead and DH is allowed to go down there if not. Just seen rumours old area is due to go to Tier 3 but think as its a house move we'll still be allowed.

DS has a lot of senco involved but only a 1 to 1 in science but he misses about 20% of lessons and currently just stands in a field in pouring rain refusing to wear a coat or come in. Other lessons he won't speak in or write in, usually one or the other. Thankfully the GCSE subjects he does do and does very well in though English he won't write anything. He won't use a computer for his learning or read anything or write anything at home so he needs me to do 1 to 1. I had to stop working for lockdown and not gone back as its too unstable so I have time its just we have a house sale and work on 2 houses at the moment and we had a lot planned. DD has just said 2 people in her year are awaiting results and she thinks she may be off soon as well. Though at least she is pretty self-sufficient other than she often feels the need to come and make snarky comments to me. But generally she's really good but harder to get things done if they are both here and we have 5 pets. At least he's just year 9 so its not the end of the world if he doesn't do much but he is painful with every change he refuses for 2 weeks so on-off is terrible, I have a battle and throw yourself on the floor everyday then. Last one was only 6 days and 1 was PHSE, he worked for first two and last 3 were terrible - I gave up in the end, lost the will to argue it all day.

Oh Silkie! The home learning can wait a day or two, get things sorted at home and at the old house.

Does he normally have any day to day SENCO support in school?

Oh joy DS has just been told to isolate for 2 weeks until Thurs 17th which is great as we have a haircut booked for tomorrow at 9.15am, a museum booked, safari booked, electrician and plumber booked for here and electrician booked for old house plus I'll be try to teach him whilst he'll think Christmas holidays came early!

We've just been told of a y9 covid case so hoping that's not DS out until the New Year though DS will be so happy if it is. Last time it was 7.30pm we were told and he has his annual haircut booked for 9.15am tomorrow. He normally hates haircuts but I found a posh ladies one about 30 mins drive away he's fine with but yesterday seemed to want to cancel but today he says it's OK he will go. Plumber and electrician are also booked here and electrician old house though seeing if can shift that to EA.

Hope home learning is going OK. Had lots of snow here today. DD was sad school not closed. She's got her minimum target grade in history moved to an 8 so all 8s and 9s now, 9 seems too high for a minimum.

400 sent home

Hopefully the 1s do correspond to high grades.

Sorry to hear there's a lack of staff - DD said lots of staff out yesterday but so far schools been open everyday to her and DS has just had 1 8 day isolation. DD is home today but just as she's a bit run down.

We are getting industrial quantities of data though happy to have it but leaves me watching it like a hawk. 10/11 subjects currently look like max grade is possible (she's got 10 gsces and 1 level 3), just had English language in as a current 5 but hopefully can get that up and amazing overall. At least a vaccine is on its way so hopefully will just be this year that's on and off and her grades went up in lockdown. DS was much more volatile - subjects he liked went up, subjects he didn't went down and it took 1 to 1 with me to keep him on track.

Still struggling with the braces and finding it harder to run now with the darkness though very impressed at her keeping it going this long, makes me feel very lazy!

DS is home today as the school are short of staff so Year 10 and 11 home today and have DS2 home tomorrow as Years 7 and 8 are out. Online assembly going on right now and he’s about to start the uploaded work.

Still no sign of a report or progress or grades here.

Sympathy to those with braces............they are not fun at all .

DD is home until next week as a close contact, three positive cases in her year alone yesterday and 400 in total fromschool sent home yesterday!!! Really wouldn't be a teacher for anything at the moment

Also got sent her ATL's yesterday - all 1's apart from English and Chemistry which are 2's. They would normally also have target grades but as they've been so disrupted at the end of last year and this term we won't see them until Easter. Keeping everything crossed that as her ATL's are mostly 1's we don't have much to worry about in terms of ability..........

DD is really struggling to - I just asked her if she wanted hash browns and she said no there'll be too hard to eat.

DS had his braces fitted last week and doesn’t look like he is enjoying eating anything at the moment. hoping it gets easier.

That's great she has no symptoms. I was really hoping when DS went on isolation noone got symptoms as that would be whole year out for 2 weeks on top of isolation and we also had orthodontist which had been waiting a few years for. One that tested positive only had mild loss of smell. I went through all the symptoms with DS he needed to tell me and he just declared he wasn't getting it as he'ld been deep breathing in his mask. So we had to play the guess if DS has symptoms game but he appeared OK. Also he never goes out here (ASD) so if he got it it would already be in the school.

15 days to go here and a bit frantic as we are selling our old house and everything there keeps being cancelled and rearranged and more things added plus supposed to do electrics and plumbing and putting up a new silkie chicken house and run as well here. So little daylight and times when no rain as well plus all the dental appointments. Hopefully will calm down soon though we keep saying that and more things emerge. Quite hard for DD to eat with the braces, she can't chew anything and supposed to be on 18 months to 2 years though maybe you learn techniques. I never had braces. DS just has an enhancer which seems fine for eating.

No symptoms for DD, she last saw her friend on Monday, so I think she’s has escaped it, which is amazing given how close they are. Such a relief that DS can still go to school, and I can go out and to work etc.

She’s struggling a bit with her friends at the moment, I think lockdown, plus two lots of isolation due to cases in her year, have really started to affect things. She’s used to having people stay over a lot, cinema/coffee shop trips etc. And now nothing. 8 days until she can go out again.

I saw an article on the BBC which said some results were wrong because of an error in the testing so could be that?

Happy Birthday Rollergirl - well done to your DD - brilliant grades!

We have been relaxing at home today because they had a teacher training day so lots of computer games. Thought we would give them a day off completely and worry about homework tomorrow. Only three more weeks of term to go.

Just received a wierd message from school - the latest covid case at school's test has been deemed invalid by the Office for National Statistics -no idea why the ONS would be dealing with anything medical and those isolating can return. At least its not my children's years and they've apparently had a negative test now though only 70% accurate.

@Rollergirl11 happiest of birthdays and those really fabulous grades for DD.

We are still waiting. It was inset day today here and it appears not much has happened.

Happy Birthday Rollergirl and congrats to your DD on those great predictions / grades.

Sorry to hear about the covid test and isolation Dulling Hope you are all OK.

The cat is a lot easier to teach than DS. You just say cat its time for your music lesson and she goes to you and sits on the stool perfectly still and upright and listens all lesson just blinking. Now if I could just train DS like that.

We've got current grades and minimum target grades though they keep updating them every time you look. History has now been revised up by the NQT to current grade of 8. Science for some reason has just added unadjusted y9 grades done at start of y9 as current grades, esp odd in chemistry which has already had a y10 exam result but maybe to smooth results. Think they are finalising all this weekend.

Day off here and first day of braces here.

@QueenMabby yes I am over the moon! DD is pleased but she has been predicted 8’s for both the English’s and Maths and I think she was hoping for 9’s in these as they are her strongest subjects. I keep pointing out that she could surpass the predicted grades. It’s over a year away still!

Hah hah, your DS has got some swagger on him. Love it! 😂😂

Happy birthday Rollergirl. What a lovely birthday treat those set of grades are. Is your dd pleased?
Text from ds at break today:
“What’s the Disney+ login? I want to watch Mandalorean at lunchtime.”
Me:
Username: hahanochance
Password: reviseforgeography
🙄🤣

DD has her report which has target, predicted and current grades on. She’s been given 6 x 9’s and 4 x 8’s for predicted. Then for current grade she has 4x9, 3x8 and 3x7. Bit weird though that 2 of her current grade 8’s are for subjects where the predicted is also an 8 so am hoping she can boost her predicted/actual grades in these subjects. But overall very very happy with those.

We have an inset day on Monday so a nice long weekend ahead of us. Also my birthday today so being spoilt by hubby and kids today. 😂

Love the attentive cat! Whole of Year 10 off at ds school as two cases in his class and two in another two classes. Back 7th Dec. Finding it hard to motivate him in English - he's doing an Inspector Calls which Ive never read. Will find a production to watch to start with I think.

At ds school they have 'challenge' grades and then the report tells you whether they're on target to achieve these, exceeding target, underperforming etc. So far his challenge grades are very high in all subjects but he struggles with German and English.

Morning all. DD has been home since Tues as a positive case in her year. Which would be no problem at all, except that it’s one of her best friends, and she’s now saying that her own sense of smell has changed. Took her for a test last night, and that’s now us all stuck in the house, possibly for 2 weeks. DS (Year 7) won’t have online learning today, but from Monday, if she tests positive, that’s me back at the kitchen table trying to work and keep him chained to the laptop at the same time.

We haven’t had any grade predictions yet; parents’ eve not until March, but we’ll get a report at the end of this term. Seems so early for them to predict, but equally I’d like to know.

DD has had lots of assessments back, all good except for Geography, which is one of her A level choices, but she made a daft mistake on a big mark question. As she said herself, better now than in 2022. Biology should be today, but they’ve pushed it on to the last week of term now. Annoying for her, as she’s put lots of work in to prepare for it.

Rollergirl ds is on poetry too atm. Unseen. He also is not a fan.
First draft of his coursework on An Inspector Calls is in (he does iGCSE so 2 lots of coursework). 🤞🏻🤞🏻

My DD (y10) has also just done Inspector Calls. She done a Christmas Carol about 3 times now then its poetry then Shakespeare but not sure what. DS hated poetry in lockdown, I'm not a fan either only one I like is Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge poem. I had to enroll the cat to listen with him, thankfully the cat loves poetry sits on a stool, really upright and blinks whilst you read it and DS will watch her listening. Though she's very elderly and think she's past that now so may need to enroll rabbit but not sure he will be so cooperative, industrial quantities of carrots would need to be involved.

Both went to orthodontist today. We had another covid case last night but not their year, when I saw it thought no as would have meant cancelling orthodontist (been waiting 4 years) but was fine.