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

Great results Piggy.

Kingscote Glad to hear of another driving success. DS's friends are all failing first time.

@MirandaWest - have you tried Knaresborough for driving tests? I’ve had two cancellations for July today on Testi app.

Great results @Piggywaspushed! Your DS has done fantastically well

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn - my DS doing Eng Lit different syllabus and found mock difficult. He’s just starting his NEA bit now. Honestly there is so much in English Lit now - I did it in 1980 something when we did 4 books properly and lots of general reading. I didn’t do critical theory such as Marxism until degree level. It seems to be a whistle stop guide to Eng Lit now. It is DS least favourite subject, and he reads widely for pleasure still - obv not as much as he games....

Almost all mocks now in - A* British history, B French (says he made so many silly mistakes - got A for two papers and B for one but guess weighting affected final result) B for Eng Lit (A, B,B for the three questions). Still waiting for Russian history. He was disappointed in himself and voluntarily has asked for extra French which is usually his best subject and has upped his weekend homework to 4 hours a day. Surreal.... I think the amount of NEA stuff and EPQ is freaking him. It is freaking me... I literally cannot wait for the end of Year 13 as school has been majorly disappointing this year in so many areas. Today for example was the return of in person senior tutor tutorials - except senior tutor said he wasn’t coming so no input on personal statements etc... school makes me sad at the moment!

Oh no Sansou, that's not good. We had an email from the head today talking about the rates, the schools local district rates have climbed exponentially since March, the graph looks horrendous. The county doesn't look to bad as a whole in comparison. I wish they get on with the vaccines for the over 16s.

Yes, you are right Piggy. He says the Chaucer one was about marriage but he didn't understand the meaning of the quote they used in the question so he just wrote what he knew about marriage themes. I guess that's all you can do really. Well, we will find out in a couple of weeks I guess and if it's not gone that well I hope the teachers consider all the good essays he has done this year.

More of Y9 close contacts testing +ve this week including some with symptoms. All pupils asked in an email on Sun pm to LFT negative before going to school this morning. Y12 case confirmed this afternoon and all Y12 is joining Y9 with online lessons from tomorrow. That’s both my DC at home now. School bus decimated today - dropping off like flies here! We’re in the East - with a relatively low cases than the rest of the UK.

I think sometimes if students say a question was hard that means they have thought about it. It's often a worrying sign when they say something was 'really easy'. The trouble with English Lit is it often all boils down to the question.

Piggy that's a fantastic result for your DS, well done to him!

DS is home from his English Lit exam and very, very down. He said it was much harder than he thought and that he didn't even understand the Chaucer question. He also thought the Hamlet question was rubbish. The language analysis question was the only one he though was OK. I've told him to forget it now, it's done and I'm sure it isn't as bad as he thinks. Fingers crossed I'm right...

Congrats to your DD @KingscoteStaff ! That’s great news. Haven’t sorted lessons here yet as everyone was booked up last I looked.

Well done to your DS @Piggywaspushed for his history A*, that’s amazing!

Thanks all - I sacrificed my fingernails on the Wandsworth roundabout in a good cause!

Well done to your DD @KingscoteStaff 😊

There seem to be literally no tests available in York. I look every so often…

Hello - I haven’t posted on here for months so am sure I will seem like a newcomer!

DS has mocks this week which means he has been working hard all weekend. Possibly if he put the general effort year 10 DD does then he wouldn’t have been working so hard this weekend but he does need to learn I think.

Still no progress on what he might want to do at university (says he does want to go). Most likely front runner at the moment is geography.

He has passed his theory test (after studying hard for just over a week) and cam basically drive and does drive us around as much as he can.

Plays guitar in a band - enjoys it a lot.

His girlfriend split up with him on Valentine’s Day (after he gave her a present….) Not sure whether a girl who came round here a couple of weeks ago might be a girlfriend although equally possibly a friend who’s a girl.

Generally he’s pretty nice and easy to get on with which is all good.

I will try and catch up now!

DS2 now got history result back. Apologies , another boast coming! Look away.

He got an A*. I am v pleased for him as I think he was very overlooked at school really . I do wonder how generously marked they exams were, though.

He is now back to considering Oxbridge. He is finding it very hard to know what to do really.

Ooohhh , good news kingscote!

We still haven't sorted out lessons. Not feeling any rush really. DS1 epically failed ever to pass theory!

Congratulations to your DD Kingscote whoop whoop. I hope it doesn't take as long for her real licence to come through like it's doing with the provisionals at the moment.

My DD will be very jealous that yours gets to have study leave during mocks Paddington. She studies so much better at home where she's not distracted by friends.

One of DD's head girl duties is doing line ups with the younger years (she has year 7) and so she wasn't looking forward to doing it in the pouring rain today - has to do uniform checks and pencil case checks thrice daily She's also doing a video tour of the school today for the new soon to be year 7s so wasn't amused that it was pouring and her careful hair style would get rained on and go fluffy. I took pity and dropped her off as near as I dared this morning.

@PaddingtonPaddington still waiting here too - we applied 1st May and sent off the photo maybe a week later. Dd doesn't seem in a hurry though, I think she's worried she'll be rubbish and find it stressful! She gets around the city by train too, so doesn't really need to drive at the moment.

Congratulations to her, Kingscote!

What did your Dd think of RWCMD ?

Great news! congrats (beep beep beep) to little @Kingscotestaff

Congratulations @KingscoteStaff !!

Congrats baby Kingscote!

Congratulations to your DD @kingscoteStaff!! Fantastic and terrifying news at the same time!

Excellent @KingscoteStaff

Still waiting for a driving licence here - 6 weeks since applying, 5 weeks since we sent off the photo form. really need it to book theory test date in the summer holidays.

DD on study leave this week. Exams Wednesday and Thursday and next Wednesday and Thursday (though she’s back in lessons from Monday).

It looks like online auditions for DD for conservatoires this year. One needs to be submitted by 18 October and not sure about the other one yet.

Woo hoo, the first (I think) of them on the road legally let loose? Well done to her Kingscote!

Well done to her, excellent news!!

Well done to your daughter @KingscoteStaff!