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I think DD has covid.... she has 'that cough'... GCSEs start Monday.....

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Lessofallthisunpleasantness · 11/05/2022 23:25

I can hear it through the floorboards. I thought it was probably tonsillitis - again as she gets that every couple of months. What to do ..... just press on? Are we sposed to do anything? I don't really want to ask the school.... incase I don't like the answer. She has had it before at Christmas and wasn't too ill with it then, just a couple of days.

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TeenPlusCat · 12/05/2022 07:09

To add to what noble has written. Subjects have been more spread out this year than previously to limit the chance of being ill for all the exams of a subject and thus being unable to be graded. So if for example she is ill on 18th May and misses Eng Lang 1 she'll be better by 10th June for Eng Lang 2.

noblegiraffe · 11/05/2022 23:53

There are guidelines - separate exam halls, and if really I’ll TAG can be given.

This is not true.

If a child has a positive covid test then they should isolate for 3 days per guidelines and miss the exams on those days.

If they are too unwell to sit the exams, they should stay at home till well.

A form should be filled out confirming the reason for absence.

TAGs are not given. Mock results are not used. If the student sits at least 25% of the assessment for that subject (including coursework), then the grade given will be based on that and the exams actually sat.

Threetulips · 11/05/2022 23:35

Teacher Assessed Grades - so yes mocks amongst other things

Exams have verbally been placed more than 10 days apart so if they would only miss one out of two exams.

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Lessofallthisunpleasantness · 11/05/2022 23:34

If they miss an exam do they look at the mock result? I think there is one exam she wouldn't mind missing as she did brilliantly in the mock and probably won't do as well in the real one. I don't know when that one is though. I think she would like to do the exams in the main though. She has been working pretty solidly.

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Lessofallthisunpleasantness · 11/05/2022 23:30

What is TAG?

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Lessofallthisunpleasantness · 11/05/2022 23:29

We don't have tests. I mean she must have caught it at school as that is the only place she has been other than at home with only me.

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Threetulips · 11/05/2022 23:27

So potentially ruining GCSEs for all the other students?

There are guidelines - separate exam halls, and if really I’ll TAG can be given.

Speak to school so they are prepared. They would’ve thought this through.

VanillaImpulse · 11/05/2022 23:27

If you have no tests then how would you know? You would just have to treat how you would've treated a cough in the past. Our school guidelines say to go if you feel well enough.