Y11 2023-24 continued

@Panic71 Is that Mr Bruff? I fear Mr Buff may be a different type of video!

Dd really struggling with poems - especially the fact that any could come up as Bayonet Charge came up twice. She severely neglected eng lit and is reaping the consequences now

We are focusing on specific poems that can be used for a number of purposes. DS tutor has been working with him on key ones that enable you to link etc
Mr Buff is excellent too

We’re having a revision free weekend here!

4 exams this week then he’s more or less half way before half term.

On their last day ours all had a biology exam in the morning, then they went to a local buffet restaurant for lunch and back to school for their leavers assembly and to get their yearbooks. They weren’t allowed to do any shirt signing until they were back from lunch!

Ds had a meltdown yesterday and just said he couldn't do it after an hour of sitting at his desk getting mire and more confused. I ended up sitting with him and talking him through the ones he knew plus a couple if others, becsuse it was better than doing none at all. 15 is far too many, I agree.

I only found this thread last week - I've been catching up and finding it all very reassuring. So many similar experiences to what we're going through. I'm finding it quite difficult to strike the right balance between supporting/encouraging DS and totally annoying him by offering to test him/sharing "useful" resources etc.

I really wish they didn't have to go through this at all. So many exams, so many weeks... But I do want to (very gently) push him a bit as I don't want him to be disappointed on results day. He has four this week, finishing on Thursday. Can't wait for half term...

Any other children having a meltdown about the poems? 15 is so overwhelming that my DD can’t think straight. ☹️ We’ll all be so glad when English Lit is finished with.

Grade boundaries aren't set until all papers are marked, and they're based on performance across the whole specification.

Form and structure are only part of AO2, not all of it. Even at A level, they're not rewarded separately

Thanks @Techno56 for setting up new thread already! How many threads will we fill up before results day, I wonder?! @MrsHamlet may I ask, if a student didn't address form and structure as much as they should have in paper 1, is a grade 9 now out of reach or could they pull it up on paper 2?

DD currently revising poetry. I don't think she's really done anything recently for an Inspector Calls but I'm totally leaving her to it as we just keep clashing. She's pretty fed up. Hoped to do English A-level but really feels she messed up paper 1. It's a shame it was so close to the start as I think nerves got to her.

The French exam is in the morning on Friday and so the leavers day celebrations aren't happening here until after that.

DD1 currently messing around with DS but she's been revising all morning so I'll let her off.

Anyone here have kids doing gcse economics?

We have French on Friday too. Exams every day this week but the revision won't be too heavy after Wednesday as it's English language and French.

It’s a right pain at dd’s school as half do French and half do Spanish. So the Spanish lot are celebrating the end of school on Thursday as they don’t have to go in on a Friday but the French students still have an exam to go!

AQA French on Friday, too. DS does Spanish, so I suggested they all have a day out somewhere, but most of his friends are in French, although I suspect he will still be in bed by the time they are finished

9.30 here, over by 11 even with extra time so still time for an assembly I guess.

Oh thats going to be a bit of a pain at DS's school! Unless all the assemblies and things are after French! DS is doing Spanish which isnt until after half term

I envy those of you with kids doing revision
DS got into a real revision groove over Easter, then I told him to have a few days off and he felt he lost it and found it hard to get back into it, so he thinks its better just to stick to a routine of it.
I think its just horses for courses. I'm like that. People think I'm super organised because I have diaries and to do lists and timers telling me what to do and when, but in reality I am super disorganised so if I don't have everything written down into a routine, I jump around between about 50 things, get distracted and just don't get anything done!

French writing here on Friday @DramaLlamaBangBang

I agree. I think it's worked quite well having no study leave here too. .Does everyone have an exam free day on Friday? Mine is having all school leaving stuff for the whole of year 11, so leavers assembly, shirt signing etc

(Just a comment here, some years parents post photos of first day / last day of school, with or without faces which others have been known to enjoy. Though whether you can get a last day photo of someone off to sit an exam is another matter...)

At first I was a bit concerned that they didn’t have study leave but I now feel that the way the school have planned it is working. They will have it after half term. For now, going in each day and being with his friends is working for DS and the extra revision in school has been well set up.
I can’t believe Friday will be the last ‘proper’ day! Where does the time go?! ❤️

@bluefineliner your entire post could have been written about my dd! Same exams this week too. It’s definitely a better week!

I think she may sleep in today, as she didn’t yesterday. I’m going to go to the gym and leave her to it. One thing that has been a relief since the exams started is that she doesn’t need any nagging from me. She’s such a procrastinator usually but this experience has taught me to back off from now on as she works when she needs to. I only became like this with my A levels, I did t bother at all about my GCSEs.

It's interesting how the study leave varies. I am Scottish and a million years ago my study leave started before the exams started (although I did go back to school straight after the exams to start the Higher syllabus). My DD is still going into school until half term, leavers day is Friday and she's on study leave for the last two weeks. She said that there were some kids on early study leave but it was 'the disruptive kids who don't get to go to Prom'. Not sure how accurate that discription is though.