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

That's as good a criteria as any @Crazycrofter!
Congratulations to @Piggys ds. and well done on passing the driving test Kingscoats dd.
Everyone else seems to be doing brilliantly in their exams too.
Ds. had his exams right after Easter, so they're long gone and dd. Won't get her results until August. She hasn't been given any marks, let alone grades for any of her numerous assessments. Nearly all other schools seem to have told the students their marks already.

@Orangecinnamon21 DD has done the online RWCMD open day and they also had a talk at her county youth orchestra from one of the tutors and she really liked what they had to say. We hope to go to Cardiff in the summer for a look round. She’s started on the audition pieces and hope they don’t change the audition requirements from last years (website is saying they will be published shortly).

@icanbewhatiwant thanks for the info on the driving licence. I think they have an online chat function so will give that a go tomorrow as the tracking is saying they haven’t received the form back yet.

@Piggywaspushed great results for your DS.

crazy,we'll see how he does when he gets to the Tudors stuff. He really likes the modern social history stuff.

The Southampton history BA looks really good.

Glad others are considering Southampton @Oblomov21 and @Wheresthebeach. For some reason, it's not a popular destination for students from Birmingham, I've no idea why, as it's fairly easy to get to. Dd was initially dubious as she'd 'never heard of it' but it's the best ranked uni offering Occupational Therapy and she did actually find a boy at school who's also considering going there! And she liked the uni and the place. Apparently, as we were looking round the city centre (well, I traipsed with dh to Warhammer, whilst the girls went to Primark), dd and her friend noticed that the people of Southampton look very 'stylish'!! This is apparently an important criteria for choosing a university!

Well done to @Piggywaspushed ds on the History result! That's amazing; dd finds History the hardest of her subjects.

Thanks for the heads up about the strike @icanbewhatiwant. I keep meaning to ring up and chase, but as dd isn't nagging me I forget!

@Piggywaspushed the HSPS course looks great. I applied for it and got rejected. DH applied for geography at Oxford and got rejected. Who knows where DS1 got his brains from 😂

@AnneOfCleavage Ds has 2 weeks of exams and only has to go in for exams too.

@Piggywaspushed well done to your Ds. I thought I put on above post...but it's not there.

Well done to @KingscoteStaff’s DD!

Well done to piggy’s DS on his results too.

DS1(20) was in contact with someone who tested positive at the weekend so is LF testing daily. All negative so far but we’re giving him a wide berth (he doesn’t live here).

I am also wary of the oxbridge thread. DS is considering Cambridge but is no longer sure. That thread was frankly scary, some of the posters seemed to treat it as a long term business project seemed a bit obsessive in places.

@KingscoteStaff well done on the test pass. Before covid I assumed Ds who is November born would be driving by Easter. They are all so far behind.

@PaddingtonPaddington and @crazycrofter a friend told me her daughter hadn't received her licence so she phoned up and was told they were on strike so not to expect the licence yet. But looking online it seems it was just 4 days. That doesn't seem that it would cause much delay.

Proggy, I'll recommend 300 then!

Well done Piggy ds.

"Apologies , another boast coming! Look away."

Please don't ever say that, it's all cool,

Thanks for the handhold sandy. Will have to pin DS down. It's question of what he feels about the HSPS course.

Hoorah Kingscote dd. Well done! 🚗

@Piggywaspushed come onto the Oxbridge thread with me. I'm nice and I'll look after you.

@KingscoteStaff congrats to your DD.

Beach how did I miss the Southampton thing. FPS I added my name to their list!

Like crazycrofter it's my ds's favourite, actually it's the only one he's interested in at all (a bit worrying).

Ds2 (13) barely reads at all. Drives me wild.

Ds1 is a prolific reader and still is. He is currently reading a book on Napoleon written by my closest friends dad. He is also reading a book on maximus, so I recommended the film gladiator too.

He takes down notes of all good words and tries to get them into his sociology and psychology essays.

Well done and thank you Monkey. Don't apologise for thread title, I really like it.

Yes, I too am wary of an Oxbridge thread (and Oxbridge full stop) but it is often the only place to get clear info so I lurk!

I think DS just needs some time to sit down and think about what he wants to do. Anyone of his 3 subjects, or a combo, could lead to the same eventual outcome really.

Blimey, Piggy, your DS is on a roll!
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Agree with Fools esther, they are great results but if they fall short of your DS’s expectations, then his let me correct this attitude will hopefully be noted by his school ahead of final predictions.

DD got a C in her Maths AS. She’s determined to try and get this formally improved to a B, but inside is aiming for higher in next year’s sitting, if it happens. Silly mistakes and lack of confidence.

Welcome back Miranda

Piggy that is excellent, a huge well done to him. I would also say see you on the Oxbridge thread but DS isn’t quite decided if having a go, depends on predicted grades I think . And I am also a bit wary of that thread .

That’s not good Sansou and sorry to hear about the English exam Popcorn 💐

Sorry to hear School making you sad Esther, I felt like that with DS’s old school and it was a relief he left. Great marks in the mocks he has there though and I have a feeling year 13 will fly by..

Ah, found you guys (lurker from previous thread).
DS has had his AS results, BCD. He would have been very disappointed with that pre COVID but it's actually an improvement on how things were looking during lockdown 3, so all power to his elbow.
He now has to convince his teachers to predict significantly higher than that on the UCAS form and says he will be working hard all summer to get ahead with Y13 work. Fingers crossed.

Welcome back Miranda

Great results Piggy, looks like he’s really coming into his own now. I would say I may see you on the oxbridge thread if it ever resurrects but, I am a little wary of it, and it’s not even DD’s first choice at this moment. But the course on offer at C is.

Still all feels like forever away, and yet PS and drafts are due in by school first 2 weeks of sept. She’s home-school all this week alongside rest of school, then one week of social activities before final break up week. It’s all gone so quickly!