Year 11 2023-24

Hope you have a fun weekend. DS is starting round two of mocks in about 10 days he was off ill today. The statistics is new first time the school have offered it.

Our school doesn’t do stats gcse @Tebheag

DS has finally finished his mocks! He has a weekend full of fun plans to enjoy now. 🎉

Sorry to hear of your loss.

Slightly of topic but has anyones kids done statistics at gcse ? New gcse offered at dds school.

So sorry for your loss @Panic71

I'm not surprised you are proud of him. I hope you are all doing okay

@Panic71 gosh that sounds like an incredibly hard week, hope he (and the rest of your family) is doing OK.

@Panic71 i bet you are!

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Well done to all your DC working so hard.
My DS has been trying so hard. He’s had a tough week too. Tuesday he carried my grandmothers coffin and today he mastered contact lenses. My heart is so full of pride for him right now. ❤️

Well done to your son @Techno56

And congrats on surviving the mocks @Marisquita Hopefully positive results for your daughter and a well deserved weekend off

Well we’ve survived 2 weeks of mocks! Results for DD seem pretty good so far, though we will be rethinking revision resources & techniques for Geography and Physics. Anyway it will be a rare (and welcome) weekend of no studies before the next phase.

Is it AQA RE? Cos tbf that is v easy.

Is 75 percent for a 6 in RE realistic? Seems really high to me but thats the grade boundary dds school has made?

Thos are excellent results @Techno56 now he can relax and enjoy his weekend (and so can you!) 😀

We've been using this too, save your exams is really helpful for past papers. Really detailed revision note pages too but we found it was useful to read these on a screen and summarise key bits on paper as it helped DD to remember as she wrote it down? It kind of stuck a bit better. Or we hope it does!

We just bought her a revision workbook to help simplify the amount she's been asked to do and that has helped with her anxiety I think. She heard about it from a friend, called Revise and Recharge. Looks useful to plan the months ahead if anyone else is in the middle of their mocks.

We need to find somethink for the summer too. A bit of a treat to take the focus off the results day. Congrats to those with results yesterday. We've got it all to come yet! 😥

Results are in, mostly 7 and 8 with a 9 and bit of a surprise 6 and 5 but those were french and music which he either didn't revise much for or is only based on a paper, which will only be worth 33% of the real thing anyway (music and its flipping hard) so quite pleased 😁

DS has decided to stay at school sixth form so his A level choices don’t have to be in until March but we had the open evening in December. His mocks aren’t until after February half term.

He did English lit in year 10, and maths in the summer and November (2023) so the focus there has moved onto additional maths now ready for the summer.

DS has applied for 6 sixth forms - two had application close dates in November, three were in January and one isn't until Feb half term. He's had two interview offers so far, which is promising, although they are from two large colleges who have very large intake numbers annually.

As to whether they can change subjects; this will depend on how many want to do the subjects and how oversubscribed they are. For example if they offer maths to 40 students and require a grade 7, if only 35 get the 7 there will be room for 5 others who did get the 7 to take maths. I think this is how it works anyway! A bit like a university clearing system.

Good luck to your DS @JustHereWithMyPopcorn for his mocks.

DS had to choose his in November! He also struggled but seems to have settled on Chemistry, Maths and Physics. This will obviously depend on how ell he does in his actual exams as his school wants high marks in these to proceed to A level.

DS has Chemistry and Eng Lit mocks today and five more exams next week too. It'll be ages before we get any results.

@Spacecowboys DD had to decide last term due to early 6th form application deadlines. Does DS have a shortlist, or any idea what he wants to do after A levels?

Dc is struggling with his A level choices, has to submit them next month ( although I assume these could be changed further on). Are others similar?

Hope everyone who got results yesterday was happy with them.

ds has a Welsh poetry exam this morning, and completed his music ensemble on Wednesday. It’s pretty relentless for these kids.

My dd has not shown much interest in prom, I’m sure she’ll go, but (thankfully) isn’t wanting to get a £300 dress (which some of her friends have ordered) I’m not really sure what to do to be honest I think she’ll end up with a vintage dress because that’s more her style, she’s only been wearing dresses for the last 6 months, was trousers only previously.
Don’t want it to be an added pressure but also don’t want a last minute panic..

We have no Y11 prom either. Which is good as we have an only so we are doing a late June/early July holiday.

DS had a bit of enlightenment yesterday and realised all the talking about it and prevarication will bot get the job done, so currently he is doing Macbeth exam questions.

4 weeks till Mocks!