Corona Cohort Y12 into Y13, braving the storm of the third wave

Wow, that’s crazy that you’ve not heard of isolations @icanbewhatiwant. They were constant here before Christmas and have started up again now. DD’s school write to us about every case- I got at least 2 emails every day in the few weeks before Christmas. I wasn’t at all surprised when we all went down with covid over Christmas!

Ds’ trip to a theme park has been cancelled because Birmingham is an area of concern and they can’t run trips outside the city.

Huge sympathies to your DCs, Shimy and Crazy - I really do feel for them, after such a horrible year.

I've never had an email about any covid cases in the school. I heard before Christmas that some year 10's had to isolate. I don't know if it's just because we are in a quiet area for covid or they don't tell us. Neither of my boys years have had to isolate nor anyone they know.

The school Facebook page currently has year 11 parents furious because the prom has just been cancelled. They'd all gone out and bought outfits, but due to restrictions not being lifted they can't have it. Our year didn't have one either, no need to make such a fuss.

Might be time for the MN badges to come out!

I was going to send DD by herself.
How about an MN meetup in Bristol/Bath? The kids will be fine 😊

Oh, God, don't worry Foff. I am absolutely going with DS! I am, firstly , over invested and nosy. Secondly, I liek Bath. Thirdly, he'd probably flood something or get lost or panic. Or something.

@Piggy thank you for the Bath option.
I think I will send dd2 on that.
I'm very keen for her to go to Bath.
She perhaps is rather less keen ...

OOh, ds has Bath as a possibility: that looks great, thanks piggy! I suspect he'd like us to come with him/would be terrified to go alone - is that horribly naff?!?

www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/tour-talk-and-stay/?_cldee=c2FyYWhhbGtpbmdAZ21haWwuY29t&recipientid=contact-e67b78f66a32eb11a813000d3ab824df-e76bb9b0291346ae8474457837a04c91&esid=1ee28622-12be-eb11-bacc-000d3ade3b59

Anyone looking at Bath? they are doing a tour, dinner and stay overnight thing over the summer. £40 pp.

Your poor DD Crazycrofter, it has been a rollercoaster of a year.

Aww, @crazycrofter: your poor dd :-( I do think arts exams are much harder emotionally (sorry science bods!): the level of control and self organisation to structure an essay calmly is huge, unless you luck out and get a theme you are really prepared for. Top off with a massive dose of stress and hormones and it's a recipe for disaster! I do also think some kids aren't built for exams: ds suits exams, he likes calm and quiet and that's where he'll do his best. Put him in an environment that is hectic and sensory with multiple demands popping in (like, well, most modern workplaces!) and he's going to struggle. My sis always really struggled with exams - but is a brilliant people person and manages interpersonal relationships brilliantly, and is calm under pressure - much more valuable than the ability to visit up knowledge onto paper in 2 hour stretches imo!

Really sorry to hear that Shimy, poor lad.

Proggy at DS’s current college yes he would be able to access live stream lesson, at his old school they aren’t able to I don’t think and the work is set for them on Google Classroom to retrieve .

I get an email to inform me of any cases across all year groups which usually highlights that ‘close contacts’ are now SI.
Thankfully, no full year groups so far and surprisingly latest ‘outbreaks’ have been in lower year groups
@Zandathepanda DD is not wearing a mask but is still in her year group bubble and as Yr13 have left is now in U6th common room
For those that unfortunately- for want of a better word - have DC self isolating, are they still able to access ‘live stream’ lessons from home ?

Thanks everyone. Sometimes these things happen, I've told him to chin up and be glad it didn't happen in the middle of his exams or leading up to them when they were all revising and having classes.

Sorry to CrazyCrof's DD about the exams. I'm sure there will resits in the autumn. Hopefully she now has more direction on how to tackle History from her teacher.

@AndwhenyougetthereFoffsomemore Well done to your DS, fabulous!

Well done to all the kids getting As and A* - that’s amazing!

Dd apparently cried for 40 minutes of her history exam today 😬 A combination of not being able to answer the questions, stress over a friendship issue and upset that her acne is coming back. I think she’s ready for the end of term now!

Oh, and another result for ds today too: Psychology and another A*: he is absolutely beaming: he's not confident in his own abilities at all (dyslexia and autistic) and it's giving him such a boost: fingers crossed for maths now...

Aww, @Shimy: your poor ds, that is so rubbish, especially when he has done so well and was going to have his moment in the sun being Mr Sugar! Well done to your dd too @Lovemusic33: I did English at uni and had journalism dreams for a short while: then I went and did work experience in a paper and decided I would HATE it! I have a mate who is an sub-editor for a daily paper and she adores it and it always sounds incredibly glam and important.

I feel like we are all really ready for stuff to Stop Getting Cancelled now: I know hospitalisations and deaths are creeping up again, but not in line with cases (from what I can see). I'm been cautious and sensible throughout, but I am definitely losing patience...
Case wise, school is still informing us of every case I think, but we still seem to be at a manageable level and my two haven't been too impacted.

Another one with a Y13 and a Y11 hoping for an early holiday next year: I really hope that they can make decisions faster than they have for the last 18 months and get clear on how they are handling the exams and content well in advance. But I realise this is extraordinarily unlikely given previous performance!

I’m so sorry to hear Shimy. Well done to him on his prize win but the premature school end just sucks.

Oh no @Shimy what a shame for him , it’s so awful for them to miss out on the good bits of school, especially when they e worked so hard.

DS got his History back as a percentage but hasn’t been told what grade. It’s 75% which I think will end up being a B. He will be gutted about that as History was the only one he felt confident about. Apparently 62% was the average. We shall wait and see though. He’s currently playing a cricket match for school - only the second one they’ve managed to play since Easter! - so I’ll try and get some info from him when he’s home.

He won runner up for social entrepreneur of the year. Just spoken to him and he just sounds flat.

Oh shimy that really sucks. What did he won? Well done him.

If it's any minor consolation to anyone DS's school hasn't had a case for about 4 weeks now after loads of issues about 6 weeks ago and my own school has calmed back down after a large outbreak. I guess it's done with us now.

DS has just been put into quarantine. Guitar exam cancelled and no speech day which he was very much looking forward to as he won a prize. Basically, term is over for him. I'm just gutted for him, he tries so hard and something always spoils things.

DS's school still notify us of each case as far as I know, they had a positive LFT / negative PCR case last week and the whole school was informed. DD's school are either not informing us or still haven't had any....