Year 10 2024/2025 - come and join!

Maybe - but they do 3 year GCSEs so not like it was the start of the course. He seemed a bit calmer by bedtime so 🤞tomorrow is better. If not then I’ll be ringing the SENCO to see if she knows what’s up on Friday. She’s usually on the ball to be fair, and DS1 adores her.

Mine starts tomorrow. She's very excited to have a double study period after double history so hoping she won't have anything to do in it and can just chat to her mates. Main concerns are which earrings she can get away with!

DS sloped off to school this morning and came home saying he'd had a "terrible" day but sat himself down to work out some trigonometry "for fun" before bed. I'll take that. According to him, he spent the whole day ruling lines in his new books.

I wonder if school has put a bit of pressure on them @Walkingbkwrm with the 'it's a very important 2 years...' speeches ? I hope he is OK.
My nephew had to do GCSE Welsh. He hated it. After all those years, all he has to show for it is the ability to sing 'happy birthday' in Welsh.

So so start here. DS1 (has ASD) came home stimming like crazy - worst I’ve seen him for a couple of years. Think it was just tiredness and overwhelm as it’s died down some since getting home but doesn’t bode at all well for making it though a whole week. Not sure why it was worse than all of last year though - if there is anything else he probably won’t tell me for a few days but it may just be teenage hormones not helping :(. He claimed he had an ok day….

He was very pleased to have discovered he doesn’t in fact have to do GCSE Welsh (We are in Wales and thought it was compulsory - the school is running a different GCSE equivalent course for the strugglers). Bit taken aback as they only told us (not asked, told) about it today - not complaining though as there is no way he’d have managed to get anywhere near a C in it (last report was an E after doing regular practice at home all year!).

@MrsMcNallysMaureen a whole day in form does seem excessive, not surprised she was bored. Mine had 1 period and seemed to spend most of it chatting. It seemed mostly pointless. Hopefully she can get stuck in tomorrow.

Hope everyone else’s DCs days were ok.

First day back here. DD felt the same way @Northernrunnerbean . She spent most of the day in form and was bored. She has been moved to top set for English, so that's good although she doesn't think she'll get away with not doing the holiday homework now.

I am keen to find out what the math's teacher is like as it's DD's weaker subject and her results reflect how she feels about the teacher.

@Retrecir It is awful that one person can have such a negative impact on so many. I hope it gets sorted.
I hope they all settle back and have a good term.

I'd love to join in too! My eldest DD started in Year 10 yesterday. Her choices were Drama, Art, Geography and RS. Her first day was a whole day of intro to GCSEs and tips on studying, which sounded good but I think she was disappointed not to get stuck in and meet her new teachers. Let's see how today goes, fingers crossed! She doesnt have the RS or Chemistry teachers she was hoping for so I really hope the new ones are just as good (or better).

Can I join the fun? I'm bracing myself for something of a roller coaster in the next two years.

Mine's been back a week (boarding school) and it's been a mixed bag - mostly pleased with her teachers, less pleased that the awful, calculating bully in her house is still there. DD gives her a wide berth but she definitely sours the atmosphere. (We have been repeatedly told she is on last chances...but there she was on the first night...).

DD is very academic and loves learning new things, so she works hard in lessons, but dashes off homework and refuses to do revision...this has not held her back yet but I feel that at some point, probably quite soon, that's going to bite her on the bum.

She is mildly dyslexic and has managed to ditch just about every 'wordy' subject there is - history, RS, languages, drama, classics - all gone. But, she is of course still stuck with English lang and lit and she detests them. I foresee tears.

I got DS out of bed and off to school in good time this morning. He wasn't particularly enthusiastic but he was awake, so long may that continue!

First day back today, managed to get him out of the house only 5 min late (looking like a zombie). Hopefully he will make it on time (he walks but not good at hurrying). Drama department have got in touch to say musical rehearsals start after school today so hitting the ground running here!
Good luck to anyone else whose kids are back today.

DD was back just for a couple of hours this afternoon.

She's happy with her timetable and teachers. Her Maths teacher, who was fantastic, retired so she has a new teacher to the school so interested to see what he's like. She's fab at maths naturally but she'd had this teacher since Y7 and he had a unique way of teaching and it all just really worked so hoping the new one works just as well.

She said it was very much GCSEs, exams over and over all afternoon 🙄

We had our new Y7s and 12s in today and I'm in bed already exhausting day.

Good luck to all going back tomorrow.

I'm surprised, but DS did collect his blazer and do his homework! I got home and he asked when school was starting, seemed surprised it was tomorrow despite me telling him that yesterday.. Will be good to get back in routine.

That's ambitious. I'm WFH today but haven't seen DS yet. I assume he's not worked up sufficient appetite to emerge for a fridge raid.

DS starting tomorrow too, has instructions to collect blazer from the dry cleaners and finish art homework today as I’m back at work. I’d say chances of him managing this are 50/50..

Is anyone going back today? DS has a final day in bed before going back tomorrow.

Joining. I have DTs starting year 10.

@36and3 same choices here. But done zero !

Hi 👋 my son is starting year 10. He has ASD and I'm so anxious. He (we) aren't prepared at all and he struggles a lot with homework etc so coursework is gonna be a nightmare! I'll need as many tips as possible 🙂

My DS is doing A Christmas Carol and played Scrooge in the Y8 play at prep school, so he should have that pretty nailed. I too would be annoyed if they decided to swap out that one!

I’m slightly frustrated that DS isn’t doing A Christmas Carol, as he knows it back to front, he played Tiny Tim in a theatre production a few years back! But he’s doing Animal Farm and Jekyll & Hyde. At least my older DS also did J&H so will have his notes and essay plans to draw from. They go to different schools and often have different exam boards, so not so straightforward to pass on info!

Oh well done your DS! What a great big brother.

I was a proper girly swot who loved homework and exams. DS' blasé attitude is a frustrating mystery to me. I've booked theatre tickets to An Inspector Calls but am half thinking it's a waste of time as he regularly falls asleep once the snacks are finished. DH is taking him to an immersive Christmas Carol "experience" which includes a Victorian Christmas dinner to keep him awake.

I will also be getting rid of all her books, apart from RE as it's compulsory GCSE in her school and they start it in year 9.
So far, I've held on to all of my DS's book from the year above, mainly for DD's benefit and reference, as he's got much tidier and legible writing and everything's actually stuck on!

I will save it up specially for results day, together with my pearls and twin-set.

@DataColour I just chucked all DS' books from Year 9. They were screwed up, dog-eared and generally unfit for any sort of revision.

In my kids school, the year 11's are going to Iceland in Oct (my DS included). They have offered a trip to the USA to the year 10s doing history. Cost is 2K and based on that DD is not going as it's far too expensive for us, and it's only for 4/5 days. She's not that bothered. The Iceland trip for DS is costing £900ish and that is fine, but 2K!

DD is waiting for an autism diagnosis, so life is not easy with her and school work. She has very fixed ideas about what she will do and won't do for homework/revision etc. Her books are very messy, I dare not look through them anymore as it gives me a headache. She has done some maths this week as she likes that and as she's joining the top set in year 10 so she is keen to do well from the beginning. She has always been good in maths but as her homework and books are very messy, they didn't move her up. She made a bit more of an effort in year 9 to keep things tidier, she's been finally moved up.

@RealHousewivesOfTaunton that's equally hilarious and frustrating!