Year 10 2024/2025 - come and join!

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Oh yes who's going to make the thread?

Could start a new thread and link it here?

Wondering if we ‘report thread ‘ with an explanation that someone can look at … unless there is a contact somewhere on the site

I don’t think you can edit thread titles only MN HQ can do this if anyone knows how to make that happen?!

Hope everyone’s DCs are enjoying the summer, seems to have gone really quickly.
DD got her mock results at the end of last term and they were so good, she did work exceptionally hard.

Shes being doing a lot of her art course work, trying to get ahead and also making flash cards online.

I work in a school, probably mentioned this upthread, I was asked to help with something yesterday in the hall for results and it was interesting listening to the conversations re this years grade boundaries especially with Maths.

Absolutely you can @JoelDommettsTux All welcome - though we might need to edit the tread title for next year. Anyone know how?

Ooh can I join this pls? Was looking for a year 11 thread for 25/26 as I can’t believe it’s coming round so quick! DS is my eldest doing double science/history/geography/PE plus usual

Thank you @Walkingbkwrm .. DS2 also has English Language result tomorrow … so I shall be child juggling … hoping DS2 will sleep in ! Good luck also to the others on here with year 11s I know I’m not the only one

Dd has statistics result coming tomorrow. She didn't do much revision but is quite bright so no idea how it's going to go

Checking in as DS1 is picking up English Lit result (done a year early) tomorrow and thought I’d wish anyone else luck. Also good luck to @waitingquietly ’s yr 11 :).
Here we are not hopeful as he is predicted a D and apparently it also didn’t go that well…But as he’s autistic I thought I’d take him in so he can see a bit of what it’s like for next year (though yr 10’s are 30 min after yr11’s so hopefully won’t be too hectic). More crossing my fingers for a few papers they also did early in the hopes he won’t have to retake them all!

My year 11 soon to be year 12 🤞has an Acer Swift which he likes - also good for his games apparently! Bought for a very good price from John Lewis . Current yr10 just has a Chromebook that’s provided by school

DD’s laptop died! Can anyone recommend one for upcoming Y11 & beyond?

Not feeble at all - I think DS would move out if I made him do an hour of schoolwork a day! He got up at 3.30 this afternoon, came downstairs for a bowl of cereal and a punnet of grapes and disappeared again 🙄

In terms of educational activities, I've sneaked them in as fun days out/holidays. He was at a French football camp last week, which he loved, and we're going to Iceland for a week later in August. I reckon that counts as French, PE and geography. I'm hoping to get down to the Seven Sisters at the end of the hols (more geography) and I've booked him into a Macbeth workshop at the Globe. He really needs to work on improving his grades in Science but I'm struggling with that one.

oh I need inspiration on educational trips please @RealHousewivesOfTaunton ..
my yr10 and yr11 are mostly just going to the gym or gaming since back from holiday… with an hour of school work each day .. I know that sounds feeble but figure it’s better than nothing

Checking in. DS's school did a big results day fir the Y10 mocks and he did well, although not as well as he'd hoped. Hopefully that will have given his head a wobble! He's got maths and English homework to do over the summer and I'm being a boring pushy mummy and taking him on plenty of educational visits. He'll appreciate it when he's in the exam hall, I'm sure...

He's not sure where he wants to go for VIth form, other than not our local VIth form college. His school only goes up to Y11 so no option to stay put. Round here the open days are in the autumn so I'll get him looking at what's on. He wants to do Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Economics, with a view to studying economics after that.

Thank you - I guess that means that the 5 and 4 were pretty decent to make up for the 1

All the marks for the 6 papers are added together and then grades allocated based on mark scheme which will change a bit each year, you can look up the grade boundaries, they are published each year. You either get 2 grades the same or next to each other, so you can get 3-4 or 4-4 but not 2-4. I’m not sure why it has to be so complicated, last year dd was a mark off the next grade up and so school wanted to get a paper remarked, but working out which one was tricky (you pay a fee per paper which in reimbursed if the grade changes) think we ended up sending back 3 and she got 12 marks higher so did go from 8-8 to 8-9.

also does anyone understand how the combined science grades work - DS2 got a 5/4/1 which school have said is a 4-4 - anything I can find on Google to explain deals with closer grades

DS2 has quite a bit of holiday work to do I think - I’ve seen colour coded lists anyway . Nothing done yet - though we just came back from holiday last night so will start nagging in a couple of days … I’m quite reliant on hoping his best friend will be doing some as peer pressure ! His mocks ranged from a 1 ( in part of combined science ) to a 7 .. didn’t pass 3 .. so work is needed

Gosh, I don't think mine has any homework or at least none that she has told me about!

She's generally out all the time with her friends, living her best life and not thinking about work at all. She did make some noises about making more flash cards when her exams finished but any time I've mentioned that, I've had massive eye rolls.

She did pretty well in her mocks though and the next set aren't until January so I guess she has time.

A level wise, she's thinking Art, German, Maths and either Further Maths or English. Her school also start with 4 and drop 1. But she is also still considering moving, and then she may do drama instead of Art. September and 6th form open days sound quite stressful. I feel like it's not that long ago, we were choosing secondaries - and not being able to look round because of Covid!

My son has been told to do several hours revision a week. He has been off since Thursday and so far done maybe 3-4 hours in total and has a cold. There are also various grade boosting extensions which have been suggested, some more interesting than others. His school have a policy if not predicting top grades yet, so kids can get 9s on their end of year assessments and be predicted 7 as next year gets harder. None of the subjects have coursework though so that’s not something to worry about.

DD has been given a mind-boggling amount of homework to do over the Summer - officially four hours per subject, but some are taking much longer - she has already spent 2 full days on DT and isn't finished yet!

She's quite worried about DT and so am I - if this is anything to go by, the coursework is going to dominate everything next year. Anyone got any experience?

The whole lot just feels far too much. She did really well in end of year 10 exams - mostly 9s - so I really don't think this much is necessary. I get it if kids are underperforming or have stuff to catch up on.