Y11 2023/24 thread 5 - results!

Happy birthday @JessyCarr ! wishing you a day full of joy!

Morning all. It’s my birthday! My only wish is that all our teens get what they need and are happy and proud of their achievements. Here’s hoping 🤞

Good morning had DS come into our room a couple of times last night to talk then last conversation said not sure if I want to go early to get them as can still hope for English pass but once I have opened the envelope that's it.
Look forward to hearing lots of good news later. Of to do work to take my mind of it.

Still no sign of DD waking up which is good - she'd only be stressing.

I'm debating whether to get up and stress clean for an hour - I think I'm too twitchy!

i am awake and worrying. DD has set her own bar so high I worry there will be upset as not everthing will necessarily have gone to plan. She should get into college so first world problems really (and the college are flexible on courses if not - we are so lucky here I realise).. Then she has an extension program offer to meet - again I think this should be ok but she will be devastated if not. Then there is her own minimum requirement to be happy and who knows if she has pulled that off. Two hours to go………

I’m not sure it this link will work but I thought it sums up the build up process and how much encouragement and support we’ve given our DC - and each other!
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/vX23A4XtmFFeoCni/?mibextid=UalRPS

I’m also wide awake, not long now.
Good luck to all your DCs.

Morning everyone,

I am a normal early riser but have been awake even earlier still today. DD still asleep, which is the best place for her for now.

Just seen the first BBC report on the pending results and it brought a lump to my throat! Not long now though.

Good luck to all the students (and supporting parents 😁). I'll check back in after we find out.

I'm another who is wide awake. DS is quite nonchalant about the whole thing. We had a chat yesterday about plan B in case things don't go quite how he wants. His school allows you to change on the day. Parents usually hang about outside though he has decided he will go in himself and doesn't want to be accompanied. I teach at the school too so I will be in earlier to see the kids as they come in so I'll be there anyway (watching him from a distance). Results from 8.30 and enrolment from 9 so hopefully we are all done and dusted quickly. He has picked a restaurant for lunch so we will all head off there.

Wide awake. Waiting for signs that DD is also awake and we'll go down and watch Gilmore Girls to pass the time (3 hours 39 minutes).

She worked so hard that the grades are secondary for me - I just want her to be happy. Like a PP said this feels like a milestone as a parent - DD is the eldest so this is the culmination of 12 years schooling from phonics to SATs to 11+... I'm not ready!

I can’t sleep. These exams and from the start of year 11 things became increasingly difficult. Dd doesn’t seem to care less. She was out with a couple of friends until midnight and a boy she briefly dated, who has tried to get back with her a few times... notably 3 weeks before she sat her exams when she was so ill.🙈 He and his friend walked past the house a couple of times earlier apparently and dd saw him so went to the park. He’s got a girlfriend now but from his behaviour I’d say he’d rather be with her. I think she’s enjoying the adulation but I am happy it’s just hanging out as she’s still really not well. It was touch and go as to whether or not she’d even sit the exams because she was in the throes of anorexia and eating only about 500 calories a day. She’s eating a lot, lot more now, physically recovering well but still very mentally ill.

Anyway I’m waffling as I’m nervous. Good luck everyone.

DD has just walked in the door. I was going to get up early to walk the dog pre results but I think he’ll have to do without!

Ds can't sleep and neither can I!
So nervous for him.
I asked him what he'd like for his celebratory meal tomorrow and he replied "I might not be celebrating". Oh dear.

I've just watched Celeb Race Across the World & Flintoff's Field of Dreams and both have made me cry. But feel like I needed a cathartic cry. Whilst the GCSEs are all about our children, it is a milestone as a parent and for me it's reflecting on that journey as a single parent, the juggling of work n school n clubs n tuition n summer clubs and everything else... done our part to get them here and now the world is theirs as they become young independent adults. Good chance I will cry again tomorrow, but need to get myself to bed now :) much love and hugs to all the amazing parents on this thread x

Well I'm still up! MUST stop working myself up. DS is really very chilled, though I think it suddenly struck him that it was actually a few hours away from the 22nd, it was actually here. We have had a relaxing week so far: he's mostly pursued a hobby in his room, but we had an outing yesterday that he enjoyed, and this evening we watched a film he loves that he really wanted us to see. I think he's confident, bordering on a bit naive, and I'm scared he'll fall a bit short of his expectations and be gutted - but he won't hear us trying to mitigate possible shortfalls.

He really ought to be able to do his chosen subjects, anyway - he needs 6s in Biology and Chemistry (plus 6 in one other science per A Level) and a 6 in History. I was just looking at the requirements at the 6th form at his school and it's only Maths and Economics which stipulate higher than that. It's a really good 6th form though, and they get consistently high grades.

He has no Plan B. He wasn't interested in viewing other 6th forms, he really wanted to stay put. So. 😬

Good luck, everyone!

Can't sleep 😵‍💫

Good luck everyone. DS in the bath now but feeling nervous. He needs high grades to stay at his school for his AL choices. An 8 in maths for maths, a 9 in maths for FM,8 in physics for physics and 7's in English and maths for economics. Very worried on the 7 in English as it's not his thing. We have 2 plan B schools where the grades needed are lower so we'll have to wait and see. He thinks he wants to move anyway. Dh and I are taking him in but parents have to wait outside. It's an odd thing as it feels so long ago they finished but at the same time it's suddenly here 🤞

Anyone else in this group in Northern Ireland
We do Gcse in Y12 but start them in Y11 so my Ds has 4 to get tomorrow
Good luck everyone

Good luck to all the amazing yp, they've worked so hard and I hope they feel proud of themselves tomorrow. And to the very stressed parents, I how you all have a good day tomorrow.

Dd doesn't need any particular grades to do her next step but I just want her to feel proud of herself. She worked so hard and we couldn't have asked for more. I will be glad to see the back of results day, had a levels last week which although were fantastic results, the build up was a tad stressful. Dd seemed ok for GCSE results day but the nerves have definitely kicked in. I've definitely aged!!

Good luck to us all for tomorrow! I’m excited to she how my DD has done whereas she seems fairly relaxed!

Whatever their results tomorrow, can I just say what an amazing group of young people we have.

They’ve coped with so much disruption at such a key stage in their lives, they are all stars.

I'm off to bed to try and sleep through some nerves!

Seems a bit bonkers - I don't see why anyone with a 6 shouldn't be able to keep up with the maths required for A-level science.

Anyway, I will let DC know tomorrow, again, that we will not be disappointed with them if anything is sub par - they are very bright and have worked so, so hard and if any results are disappointing honestly it's not their fault it's a system that asks so much of them. And we are looking into whether they have ADHD as well now like our youngest (and probably their dad).

I cannot believe how much more they have to do than we did at GCSE. DC basically had to (or felt they had to) give up most hobbies, we had to give up holidays as a whole family due to exams or mocks etc for the entire bloody GCSE year.

Their mocks were all very good - well March ones slipped a bit because, honestly, who can keep up that effort continuously, when the stakes aren't that high? And in the actual exams they were happy enough with all papers except their final one (Music) where they already had very high coursework and performance marks so at worst, it'll have cost them a 9.

Wow!! Dc college require a 4 in maths to do Chemistry or Biology AL but 5 for enviromental science and psychology.
I wonder why as I would have said Chemistry the most maths heavy out of those?

My school did this. I remember getting the call for my A level results.