Current Year 10 2020/2021 support thread

Well done everyone on these amazing results, especially @Rollergirl11's DD - I'm not surprised you are proud she has done brilliantly!

Glad to hear your DD is enjoying the new school @Silkiecats hope that things continue to go well.

We finish on the 22nd which will be a half day. Results expected around the 15th, I'm not very good at waiting patiently but hey ho. For some reason DS didn't have his mentoring session today (he thinks the TA was absent - perhaps Covid isolating like quite a lot of the school.) I'd really like someone to go through his English papers with him 1-2-1 as I'm sure there will be room for improvement, perhaps there will be a chance next Friday afternoon.

That's amazing Rollergirl especially considering what she has been through and she thought they hadn't gone well. My DD says things like that and then gets results like that.

First week done and DD seems happy there - not mentioned any other kids but studying seems to be going well. Am hoping move won't affect the grades too much but she seems OK with things and will catch up over the summer.

Happy holidays for those starting the holidays. I've still got to get set up on new school's parent scheme and lunch card set up. But very relieved first week went well and she is happier there.

DD’s came home with her grade collection today. I am beyond proud, she has done so amazingly well considering how shit she’s had it since the end of April.

She got 9 in Chemistry, English Lang, English Lit, Geography, History and RE. 8 in Spanish, Maths and Physics and 7 in Biology.

Two weeks left of Year 10 and Year 8. Our house is counting down the days now that’s for sure!!

We finish on 21 I think because we have parent tutor meetings in 22 and 23 and normally the DC aren’t in for that.

DS3 just found out his year 6 teacher for next year (two form entry) and he has the same teacher his two brothers had. She is ace so that’s exciting too.

@Silkiecats Nope, back on the 6th!

Have a lovely holiday HelloDulling Do you go back earlier as well then. I think we finish 22nd here and back on 4th.

End of term for DD-and me-today. DS finishes tomorrow. So looking forward to a break from the alarm.

Glad to hear results were better than expected Aramox

Glad your DD did well and hope taster day goes well Rollergirl

Happy holidays QueenMabby 2 weeks to go here.

Hope you can get rid of French Ithink

Congrats on results StColombo

Dd said today was good but then fell asleep. Ds got a 7 in his y9 maths exams, didn't do English, not sure what happened with science.

Ds feeling a bit better now as turns out even his low grades are passes so he's come out with a bunch of 5-6s and a couple of 7s. He's certainly motivated to keep working and teachers are pleased with his efforts, but he struggles so much to remember stuff, especially in sciences! Even the teachers think the syllabus is ridiculously heavy. I feel like next year is going to go by in a flash, and probably without much fun. I'm starting to think about 6th form options but a bit stuck on how, the admissions seem even more unclear than secondary were. So sorry to hear about bubbles bursting, we've been lucky so far here.

Hey all, sorry to hear about peeps having to isolate. There have been quite a few people sent home in DD’s year but thankfully DD has escaped it so far.

DD has had most of her results back and she’s done remarkably well considering how bad she thought she’d done and how anxious she was taking them. Just waiting for the school to send out the grade collections.

She has her 6th form taster day tomorrow. She had to choose 4 subjects to get taster sessions in so she went for English Literature, History, Psychology and Sociology. I think she’s looking forward to it although a little nervous too.

DS has the last of his exams tomorrow which is French. He doesn’t care about it as he is dropping it in Year 9 and will just continue with Spanish. I think he can’t wait for school to be finished. Keeps saying how dead it is. Although the whole year have a trip to Thorpe Park next Friday so hopefully he’ll find that fun at least!

Our school insists on languages which was one of the reasons I liked it because I think they are important. However, now DS2 is refusing to engage (in spite of being quite good if he puts his mind to it) I can see it’s not for everyone. Only about 25-30% of the boys at their school don’t have to do a language. I think you have pretty good grounds for withdrawal, it isn’t worth any bodies time is it.

DS1 got two results today: 9 in business studies and 8 in Spanish.

Oh no sorry to hear about all these bubbles bursting and cases :( Hope everyone stays well.

Feel like we are really flagging (not helped by noisy people last night after the football) but two weeks of term to go. Still waiting on the results of all the assessments and end of year reports. Though we did hear that DS got a 2 in French, no surprise there as he hasn't done any work in French for more than a year. We've asked the school to let him drop it but they haven't agreed yet - perhaps they will now!

My DS is still in school - finishes tomorrow. Dd had to be picked up earlier - a positive case in her year. The whole year goes home while they contact trace. We know who has had the positive result and it’s not someone she has contact with so 🤞🏻 She can go in for the last day tomorrow. It’s been a stressful last week - think we’ll all hibernate over the weekend!

Sorry to hear about some of your ds results @aramox. Is he motivated to try and catch up on revision in the holidays, especially if he's a hard worker? Not ideal, but could be very worth it. Ds has said he's going to get his revision cards in order, catch up on the missing topics etc. I'm not going to nag him as we just end up arguing unfortunately.

Oh no StColumbo We've had two y9 cases in a week so not sure how long DS will survive. They'll probably wait until my second vaccine and then send him home.

Our primary bubble has just burst with a positive case. Argh!!!

Physics teacher messaged me to say DD had done different things to what they had done which we knew but was kind of him to message and go through with her.

Thanks Aramox

Hope last exam went well StColumbo and glad they are over.

We got a second y9 covid case and I thought oh no here we go again and I said to DS and he said no. So I explained again and then he said no they read out the list of who has to go home at school today and I wasn't on it so he's escaped and I got a whole sentence out of him. Yay!

DD did after school stats today and she said she found out the further maths after school is just gcse further maths so lower than the level 3 add maths she did before but they said last year they entered one person for add maths though not sure if level 2 or level 3. But still will give her FM. Still seems very happy but comes home shattered and starving. 11 days to go here.

Sorry to hear that @aramox. There is still time and perhaps it’s about revising differently for him. We all take info in in different ways and it’s an uphill struggle if you haven’t kept up with it. I know we will have this issue with DS2 as well.

Last exam for DS1 was maths today and he seemed quite nervous. His school have sort of two top sets but one works at super fast pace and he worked hard to get into that set as he was number 6 in his form when they took top 5 but consequently he has to work super hard to keep up. He was already up revising when I got up this morning.

Oh your poor ds @Silkiecats. Ds matured so much in y10 though - bad experiences in y9 helped get him there - I hope that's the case for yours too.

Sorry your DS found exams hard Aramox I think a lot of schools have had issues in the sciences due to lockdown and are switching to double. DDs old school had a lot of staff absence in science and couldn't get cover so they got behind. Though different subjects seem to have way different grade boundaries. It was quite low percentages in science for the grades at DDs old school so hopefully it won't be too bad though sometimes its worth considering switching to double rather than triple science.

I am worried for my DS - so far all I know of his year 9 exams is one he ripped up and threw the pieces around and 2 he wrote nothing in. Argh. He seems about 10 years younger than DD but is only 1 year younger.

That all sounds positive @Silkiecats. And what great results from others. Ds just getting his in - one good one and two awful so far. 20 something percent in maths and science! They haven't given us grades, but he ought to be getting 6-7s. Did loads of revision too, tho he has years of doing the minimum to catch up on. I must say I'm feeling pretty bleak about next year, and sad for him too.

Dd is back and seems to have had a good day, said teachers were nice though 3 were annoyingly bubbly. I said maybe they should have been primary teachers and she said yes.

She said she found out they do stats and further maths as after school gcses so she said she got herself added to those, stats is a gcse and FM we aren't sure what that is, she was doing stats gcse and level 3 add maths at old school but fm maybe gcse or level 2 or level 3. So puts her up to 12. Said they only get 20 mins for lunch so she says she won't eat there as can't eat that fast but has gone off to get food now.

Gosh @PaddingtonPaddington what a lot of exams they are making yours do! Hope his last few go ok. Our school seemed to only make them do one per subject except for Maths and French so not quite such a heavy load.

Thinking of your DD today @Silkiecats hope everything goes really smoothly. Well done to her on her brilliant results. Well done to your DS as well @Lightsabre - hope you get to go to France.

The covid has hit school, more than a quarter of yr8 home and some in yr7 and yr10 (not mine thankfully.) If we can get to the end of term without having to isolate I think we will be doing well, numbers seem to be really climbing everywhere.

I nearly booked Kids Week tickets for us this week (half price in August for some west end shows) usually I would but in the end I didn't. We have quite limited dates we could do and I didn't really fancy going into London and the tube, crowds etc. I am trying to hold any plans I make quite lightly but I do have two theatre trips in August (to our local theatre) booked so looking forward to those :)

First day today, still seems very happy though said should I keep my old school's PE top just in case.

We didn't get biology result back but of her others she had 8x 8 or 8+ which is highest they give, and 2 x 7 (normally gets 8s in those but English was up so balanced out, one the teachers had designed test and mark scheme and whole class was down a lot) and one result missing. So really good.

Just been filling forms, getting uniform, back, new mobile and bus pass and new shoes, apparently everything needs to be new when you change schools though will save getting it in the summer.

Hoping the journey won't be too bad, she'll be happy and her grades won't be too affected. Everything I have read says they are normally badly affected but I looked and 8 of her subjects look taught identically pretty much and so there's 2 to catch up but one of those she has done all of the second year and one she has studied for fun and is my degree so she has been taken round places related to it from a young age. Think she will lose the stats and level 3 add maths unless we can do those privately but that's fine and they will be useful anyway as she wants to do Maths and FM at A level.

Thanks for the good wishes Lightsabre I am also concerned y10 results will be needed as DD's will be at old school, in theory that's possible though from what I've seen it looks very heavily y11 biased but I am no expert. Congrats on your DS's results. Hope you can get to France.

Hope rest of tests go well Paddington and StColumbo

Well done on your DD's results HelloDulling Hope your DS is OK now.

Rollergirl Your DD has done so well to get through all her exams, so sorry to hear about the panic attacks and you are being amazing in supporting her so much. Hope you can all get a good rest over the summer.

DS apparently didn't write a word in either of his y9 English exams argh and is supposed to be doing a speech. Really hoping he is not just going to refuse that as its needed for English GCSE. Not hopeful. Still awaiting news of EHCP. Though at least he is in school everyday and learning fine.