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Y11 2023-24 thread 4

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Techno56 · 05/06/2024 10:12

New thread for GCSE survival 🙂

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Waspie · 21/07/2024 12:01

Techno56 · 20/07/2024 21:46

I think we have all wished this at some point in the Y11 threads 🤣 I know I have.

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Me too! Thanks @MrsHamlet your insights have been so helpful.

We're going to need a new thread soon @Techno56 - are you willing to set one up please? These have been so good to vent and worry with others in the same position. Thread 5 should see us through to results and beginning of year 12 Smile

bluefineliner · 21/07/2024 06:49

This is interesting as my DD is joining a large school sixth form (around 300 in y12) with approx 30% from other schools and they set bridging work. They have all had to sign up to a platform with folders of work to do for each subject, which has to be handed in when they start.

DD said there is quite a lot to do for maths and chem. The school also encourage students, who are not sure on a subject, to dip in to the folder of other subjects to see if it appeals to them as a potential replacement. I like this as I am trying to work out plan B for DD should she not get what she wants.

DD has always loved school though and I want her to keep the enthusiasm despite the looming results so I'm encouraging her looking at it in the next week or two to keep her positive in the run up to results day.

MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 22:08

Techno56 · 20/07/2024 21:46

I think we have all wished this at some point in the Y11 threads 🤣 I know I have.

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Meanwhile, my year 11 wished the opposite 🤣

But thank you

gingercat02 · 20/07/2024 22:02

MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 21:10

No. Our year 12 is about 50% our students and 50% from 6 other schools. It would be nigh on impossible to manage that.

And in any case, we finish teaching in January of y13. We don't need more time.

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Glad it's not just our school. I really think DS needs the summer to just chill (and maybe get a job to fund his social life)

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Techno56 · 20/07/2024 21:46

hels71 · 20/07/2024 21:13

Wish my DD was in your class!!!

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I think we have all wished this at some point in the Y11 threads 🤣 I know I have.

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MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 21:16

hels71 · 20/07/2024 21:13

Wish my DD was in your class!!!

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🤣

I'm very chilled out - until they cross me!!

hels71 · 20/07/2024 21:13

MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 21:10

No. Our year 12 is about 50% our students and 50% from 6 other schools. It would be nigh on impossible to manage that.

And in any case, we finish teaching in January of y13. We don't need more time.

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Wish my DD was in your class!!!

MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 21:10

stickthewellyin · 20/07/2024 20:44

@MrsHamlet do you not set bridging work? My DS seems to have been set a huge amount. I do feel like they need the summer off.

No. Our year 12 is about 50% our students and 50% from 6 other schools. It would be nigh on impossible to manage that.

And in any case, we finish teaching in January of y13. We don't need more time.

Muchtoomuchtodo · 20/07/2024 21:06

Ds hasn’t been set any bridging work. Just as well really as I’ve barely seen him over the past few weeks!

Between working, spending time at his friends holiday caravan, ‘popping’ into town (our nearest city) and going to the beach when we have had decent weather he’s barely stopped! He’s still got Cadet camp and Boardmasters to go!

stickthewellyin · 20/07/2024 20:44

@MrsHamlet do you not set bridging work? My DS seems to have been set a huge amount. I do feel like they need the summer off.

MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 19:30

hels71 · 20/07/2024 18:49

Apparently they can't read it in class because of the content??? Which does make me ask why they didn't pick one of the other texts!!

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What???? That's nonsense!

We teach that, and it's read in class. If it's not appropriate to read in class, it's not appropriate full stop.

hels71 · 20/07/2024 18:49

MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 18:29

This makes me glad I don't set bridging work. I don't want students struggling through texts, and it's the flaming holidays!!!

Apparently they can't read it in class because of the content??? Which does make me ask why they didn't pick one of the other texts!!

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Techno56 · 20/07/2024 18:38

I'm suspicious about the lack of bridging work, I think they might set some on enrollment when my son is then away for a week!

He is getting a bit bored of being at home now, especially when both his friends were away last week, but has activities on and off the rest of the holidays so hopefully a good balance of doing things and chilling out.

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MrsHamlet · 20/07/2024 18:29

This makes me glad I don't set bridging work. I don't want students struggling through texts, and it's the flaming holidays!!!

hels71 · 20/07/2024 18:04

DD is currently struggling her way through The Handmaid's Tale and wishing her school hadn't cancelled drama....

Waspie · 20/07/2024 15:02

DS is, like many others it seems, getting up late and doing very little. He is jet lagged as we're only back from holiday a couple of days ago so hopefully that'll pass. He's already saying he's bored though.

He has been set a vast amount of transition work for all subjects. He did spend an hour in the garden yesterday reading the first few chapters of The Great Gatsby, which is one of his set texts for Eng Lit. I've suggested he do an hour or so each day in one or other subject, it'll break up the boredom and mean he can spread out the work.

I get the feeling he's regretting not getting a summer job. He does have a tennis coaching course lined up in August which will allow him to do some basic tennis tutoring for some extra cash.

Tiredalwaystired · 20/07/2024 09:06

DD has started her transition work and is really enthused! Mind you, she’s got an Ed Gamble podcast to listen to so I’d probably be enthused too!

JessyCarr · 19/07/2024 21:41

DD hasn’t had any transition work, but I imagine some may materialise once she has her results and (all being well) has her place confirmed. The entry requirements are quite stringent so some of her friends are not at all sure they will make the grade.

Wehaditsogood · 19/07/2024 15:09

DS has decided to change his 4th A-level subjects depending on his results. He was looking into uni courses he likes.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 19/07/2024 10:11

Our school has set transition work, quite a bit for maths. They have said 3-4 hours per subject but it looks like more than that to me with the amount of links and YT videos in there on top of the actual work!

Pharos · 19/07/2024 09:51

Ds has some suggested reading to do for PRE and Drama plus a list of ‘what we expect a Y12 Politics student to know’ - nothing too arduous.
I do remember his older brother having a lot more to do for Maths and Physics and it being compulsory- if it wasn’t done over the Summer, it had to be completed within the first fortnight of term starting…

Wehaditsogood · 19/07/2024 09:30

DS will be tested about transition work in September. At least in maths. I don't know about the others.

TeenDivided · 19/07/2024 09:16

I'm sure I have seen noblegiraffe saying important to be up to speed on algebra prior to starting maths A level, and also in general reading about v early maths tests.

Tiredalwaystired · 19/07/2024 09:14

It may have depended on the subject to be fair - I did English Literature so they gave us the first two texts to complete.

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