GCSE results day 2021 support thread

I've been awake since 4.30! Even the dog looks fed up.

Awake too. Woke up with a dream that we received somebody else's results and were trying to give them back without looking at them.

I’m awake too! DS fast asleep

That’s me awake too, the rest of the house is quiet. Email around 8.30am for DS, then he’s to confirm 6th Form place by 12.30pm…..can’t believe we’re here finally.

I’m awake too!
I was feeling surprisingly ok about everything until last night and then I started to worry. DS is working today and DS2 is on a football course 30 miles away so it’s going to be a mad scramble to find out before I we have to leave.

I'm also awake too early. I have no idea what today will bring.

I'm super proud of DD - she's severely dyslexic and started secondary school hardly able to read and write. Her targets are all ow, but she's actually a very bright cookie and I have everything crossed for some decent grades. She's particularly worried about English, but I'm sure she'll be fine. Blimey, this is nerve-racking!

I am awake too early!
16 year old and rest of house asleep. He goes in for his results at 9.30am ish. They all have appointments. I think he will go in early but may not be allowed in...some of his friends have 8.30 appointments!
He worked hard and should be ok but who knows for sure until paper in his hand.
So many schools did things differently. He has friends at other schools who seemed to do hardly any assessments whereas his school did loads. We shall see!
It is going to be a long morning!

Waiting for my maths resit results so nerve-wrecking but that’s life

@beigebrownblue me too

Hi all - a bit late in the day but I am joining in. Youngest gets their results tomorrow and it has felt an interminable wait for them.

DS gets his results tomorrow. He is naturally quite academic (target grades were 8s & 9s) but really didn't work hard at all, despite all of my attempts to motivate/cajole etc. I'm just thinking ahead to how to react if he hasn't done particularly well - I totally get that it's the effort that counts rather than the results - and that's what we should be focusing on - but I don't feel that he put anywhere near enough effort in! He's a lovely boy, but just quite lazy!!

Checking in. Like many others, I really couldn’t guess how DS has done. Praying for good enough for the A Levels he wants to do.
Congratulations gift was given last week- not linked to results, we are proud of him for just getting his head down and getting on with it all. Meal out tomorrow to celebrate next steps- whatever they are.
Best wishes to all your teens tomorrow. They’ve been amazing just to get to this point!

Joing in too please! Just back from London theatre trip. I booked today especially to take our minds off results day but there was a medical incident which delayed the end of the show. We were close by and DD feeling very upset. Now she intends to stay up all night watching films! I'm to old/ tierd to join but will happily fall asleep on the sofa. Email at 8:30. She ebbs between confident and meltdown. I think it will be a long night. All the best for tomorrow

Yes, I'll join you all with a probably fairly sleepness night here from DD.

However I'm relieved it's tomorrow and I'll be on hand to pick up the flack if needed.

Good luck all. (As you can tell I've hit the vino...)

In my day, O level and A level results were put up on the front doors at school for everyone to see. Even degree results were put on the department notice board.

DS has just told me he doesn't want them mentioned anymore in the house and he is concentrating on the fact that it is payday tomorrow!

Hello.
Nervously waiting here too.
normally very chilled laid back DS was asking me to make sure I wake him incase he misses his alarm, as he wants to be there for doors opening.

I’m joining. Dd1 will get her results tomorrow. Her slot to pick up her results isn’t until 12pm so she’s got a long wait to find out.

She’s a bit nervous, but ok ish. We will celebrate whatever, but she is hard on herself and I really hope that she has the grades she needs to go on to do the A levels she wants.

Thanks @LynetteScavo I still remember opening my certificate envelope and seeing my results - in Scotland we didn’t go into school to get our results, they were posted out, so this is all new to me!

Joining in anticipation of the results. My DD2 is still only 15 and two weeks away from her 16th birthday.
She has an academically very able sister so we have to be very cautious about managing expectations and not comparing.
We'll be overjoyed at a mixed bag of between 4's & 6's.
Fingers crossed for all the kids, we're hoping for the best and planning for the worst and praying it'll be somewhere in between.
I know these results are not hugely important in the scheme of things but to the kids they are.
Just looking forward to tomorrow being over and planning for the next step, wherever that may take us.

Silly question, but do they actually get certificates these days or just a run of the mill email or printed letter?

I'm joining you all. Feeling very nervous. Think this is worse than waiting for my own results many years ago! DS worked so hard, but not sure how that will translate into grades. Not sure if he wants to go into school or ask them to email the results. He is then going into work later in the day

Feeling ok here but think I will be pretty nervous in the morning! DD veers between thinking she has done ok to remembering exams that went wrong and feeling very nervous! She is collecting at 9 - fingers crossed!