Current Year 10 2020/2021 support thread

Hello. DS is also starting Y10 in September. Can't believe how quickly the last few years have gone! He's opted for Triple Science, Geography and French. He goes to a faith school, so RE is compulsory. He was determined to do EBac, although his music teacher was pretty upset when he didn't opt for music! He coped pretty well during lockdown and just got in with the set work. his school were really good and had a full timetable thoughout with either live lessons on Teams or set work. It will interesting to see how he copes with everything when he goes back. He does a lot outside of school with swimming and music groups, but some of his friends with older siblings have been telling him that they will be expected to do at least 2 hours of study after school everyday!!

Hi, joining as my DD is officially Yr10 in September, although she is Home Educated. She also has SEN, anxiety and dyspraxia, so it's going to be a challenging few years. Luckily no subjects are compulsory for us but DD has chosen to study Maths, English, Science, History, French and Art. She has also produced the long list of stationery requirements others here have mentioned, complete with colour coded folders, post-its and pastel highlighter pens!

I think one of the reasons he did so well with his SATs is he got extra time so he could have his initial panic and then calm down.

It really came to a head at the end of year 8 where he got graded a poor for effort but excellent for behaviour and homework and their reasoning was that he wasn't meeting his target grade although they said he was working at the level of his ability. It's like banging my head against a brick wall. He's never had a poor in anything before. He's on the SEN register for his anxiety so that didn't exactly help matters

Bit concerned really about DS2 Maths - he hates it and will be targeted with a 4, but he is in all top set science as he loves it - targets with 7s & 8s - my spikey profile ASD boy is going to be a challenge!

They won't amend the targets here either, Dd underperformed on her sats so her targets are relatively low and she's already working above her targets, yet they still remain the same

On the other hand DS was invited in the initial round as he was a high flyer but now, although he doesn’t come off the G&T register, he isn’t invited to the high flier groups any more😰

@GhostTypeEevee that sounds like made up bullshit to me. Of course they are allowed to if they need to. DD had targets moved up as she didn’t perform well in SATS and only came into her own in high school. In fact I think it was January in year 8 that she was invited to a special high flyer G&T group-their school start with the G&T thing by October in year 7, so we sent an email back saying I’m sorry, we think you sent this invite by mistake-to which we got a resounding no-we’ve re-evaluated the students and changed their targets accordingly, and a big congratulations to DD...

Hello! Ds going into y10, doing 10 subjects incl media studies- it’ll be a big jump from y7-9, where his very academic school has had very few end of year exams, and he usually does badly in them. Feeling deeply anxious about the whole thing- he takes the minimalist approach too.

When I say don't change the target grades they said they're not allowed to.

@MrsElijahMikaelson1

At ds schools they don't change their targets although I would prefer they would. He had a very good SATs day so his targets are 9s. He has ASD and is very anxious and unconfident. The targets, especially maths is like an albatross round his neck and although his maths teachers have said he's not a grade 9 student they still won't change the target, which has effected his confidence even more in the subject.

Dd is going into year 10 - chosen geography, history, PE, double science, French along with maths, English and English lit. However there's a good possibility French will be dropped by Christmas as she is also national level in her sport which means she spends more time training than she does in school!

It's school that suggested she only took 8 GCSES but dd being dd wanted to take 9! Time will tell but it's great we have the support of the school where her sport is concerned.

Of course training may be suspended again should we go back into lockdown!

Hi there. DS is going into year 10. They have to do the Ebaac unfortunately. History is his humanity and French his language. He has then picked DT and music. They started last year. School will “invite” those they think capable of doing triple science later this year. DS is a nightmare. Very bright but just doesn’t apply himself so that over his time at high school, we have seen his grades drop and drop. Just because he is lazy and doesn’t see the point. He thinks that although when he started his targets were 9/8 and that now they are 6/7 that that is ok. I despair. School have been completely shit over lockdown and work provided has been poor. Their idea of 3 hours of maths a week took him 20 minutes.

DD is year 11 so we are currently waiting. She’s had a few anxiety attacks with all the news. She has worked really hard and methodically and was on for 9s. She is currently front loading her A level subjects so hopefully she will get to do the ones she wants-at least unlike year 13 she has time to appeal.

On PE days they have to go in in PE kit as changing rooms are closed.its a bit annoying as we have to buy more pe uniform which we normally didn't get so he doesn't freeze during the day

Separate entrances and a 1 way corridor system, year group bubbles and staggered lunches. I set day after school library session per year group (where as they used to be able to go every day)

Uniform remains the same except for PE days where they need to wear kit.

Y10 back 9 September, 2 days late. Year bubbles for 9/10/11 and class bubbles 7 and 8. Start times tba but fairly normal, luckily we are 5 mins walk away unlike most who travel in on rural buses. Full timetable. Seperate rooms for each year group. Same tutor, same setting. Full uniform but then said no blazers if we want. Will fine if don't return. Fairly like before.

How are everyone's dc schools doing the return?
Ds is starting a day later and his new school start time is 9:30 which he's thrilled about as it means extra time in bed
They've changed their tutor groups and these new tutor groups are their science and maths class.

Hello! Ds starting Yr 10. Doing English x 2, Maths, triple science, Geog, History, Music and German. RS half GCSE which will be sat at the end of Yr 10. Struggles a bit with English despite being his strong subject at primary and Yr 7 and German. His music tutor has been shielding so I'm not sure what will happen with that next year.

He Games too much but did engage with learning during lock down. Tends to get anxious over school work so we've taken a hands off approach so far but need to nudge him along. Unfortunately I've had the long tail version of Covid and am still poorly and exhausted so not sure I'll have much energy to support him.

My son has chosen IT, Computer Science and Product Design as his options.

Hi I'm marking my place to come back and read the thread properly tomorrow!

My dd is also going into year 10, she is on the pathway to getting an ASD diagnosis and has struggled over lockdown with various things.

On one hand I think she needs school to keep her motivated on the other hand I think she's going to massively struggle with going back after such a long break.

Hi. Twin DDs going into Yr10 in different schools.

DD1: English x 2, maths, triple science (had to sit an exam in Yr 9 as only top 60 girls are picked), geography, French, Latin.

DD2: English x 2, maths, triple science (would really prefer combined but not given the option), history, French, RE (compulsory), drama, food tech & nutrition

Have already been given the texts for English lit so I'm trying to persuade them to have a look before they go back. Will probably settle for watching Macbeth (with Michael Fassbender!).

We've been using Corbett maths at home to back up school lessons and will continue with that and may sign up for the iGCSEscience website as DD1 wants to study it at A level and possibly uni.

DD2 has been doing a lot of baking over the summer holidays - good practice for her but very bad for my waistline!

RE compulsory at their school - but it also was for me when I was at school so feels normal to have to do it. Both DC enjoy it though which is good.

Hello - DD is going into year 10 in September and taking maths, English, RE, science (not sure yet whether it will be separate sciences or double science), drama, geography, history and Spanish.

She started GCSE courses in year 9 so has had a year already. She is clever but also tends to anxiety and found lock down difficult which resulted in her not completing as much work as she should have done. So not sure how things will be in September.

I also have DS in year 11 - he is currently pretty chilled about GCSE results next week although I suspect he’ll be less chilled by Wednesday. Am glad it’s him and not DD getting results though...

Me too please. DS (our eldest) starts yr10 next month. Doing Eng x2, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, History, Spanish and ICT. Quite a heavy mix and he’s not the best worker in the world - bright but lazy - so I’m a bit nervous. Will see how it goes. He started his sciences syllabi in yr9 and he found it ok - physics, maths and chemistry are his favourites.

Ooh hello I'll join.

DS is doing geography, history & food tech. Has to do religion, and dual science.

He's not doing any work this summer- lockdown was a challenge and he's looking forward to going back to school.

He reads a lot so we're trying to make him read a range of stuff. And make him cook some family meals to work in food tech skills.

He's totally disorganised and I'm trying not to interfere to much...