Y11 2025-26 - Trying not to melt and pushing through the final weeks

Also nothing has been put on by her school, which is a state comp doing badly. It’s like they’ve given up on this cohort.

For my dd it’s the difference between pass and fail, unfortunately 🤦🏻‍♀️ I would be delighted if it was 6 rather than 7.

That said, I can’t force her and wouldn’t want to try. I’ve just said that I want her to have no regrets, and to feel that she did her best.

I’ve just seen this thread on active, and am marking my place.

my dd has done nothing so far this holiday 😢 literally not even cracked open a book. She had started to knuckle down a bit before the hols so hopefully she will start later today and at least do a few days.

Dd has physics on Tuesday. She starts on Monday with computer science, then maths & geography on Wednesday & English language on Friday. Definitely her hardest week, after that it is just the triple science paper twos which are actually nicely spread out.

it’s much cooler here today thankfully. Dd is managing to do some physics (finally!).

My DD’s school are doing a couple of revision sessions, but she’s gone to her Grandma’s to revise for a few days (and be treated 😊).

I did volunteer to do a revision session at my school, but you need a few teachers from each dept to do it, for health and safety etc. Quite understandably, most of my colleagues are going away or having a break, so we’re not running them. Tbh in Easter hols revision session, I asked a few kids to leave, as they had clearly come to appease their parents, and were doing sod all work!

Chatting with the lady behind the bar at my local last night and her twins' school (state) is running full revision classes 9-3 every day this week.

I admire the committment of the vast bulk of teachers! They will be exhausted when summer holidays finally roll around!

The session on over half-term in DS’s school was for Further Maths actually, which they don’t get a lot of teaching for anyway.

DS said it was pretty good, and he got to see some friends which he enjoyed as well.

Nothing extra here (Indy). Dd has had the equivalent of 2.5 days off spread out through this half term but she’s back to it from today.

Everyone else next up physics on Tuesday? Dd has four next week.

DS has been plugging away doing about 3 hours a day at home. Easier now it’s a bit cooler. No revision sessions in school which is a very high performing but local comprehensive.

DD’s school have done booster sessions after school for most of this school year - some kids were specifically invited and expected to go, others could go if they wanted to. She had a day in school for Drama revision in the Easter holidays, nothing happening in half term that I know about but others may have been invited to things. Shes predicted mostly 5/6 grades so probably isn’t a target student for them. This is a comp that gets mostly good results. What some schools are doing sounds amazing.

Thanks for sharing what your schools are doing in terms of extra sessions.

Our son is at a well regarded comprehensive in London. He is predicted 7 plus grades and doesn’t have any but maybe some of the pupils / sets do.

Having said that work has been very sparse this half term so who knows how he’ll do. He was working when I left home this morning so maybe he’s found his revision mojo 🤞

DD had a beach day with friends yesterday which was very much needed, was lovely to see her relaxing and laughing. Back to it today, school offered a full morning of Spanish (with ice lollies) so she went to that and has been doing Geography this afternoon and some timed English Language questions tonight.

The school has been great, revision sessions every after school since January, topics published in advance so they knew if they needed to go to them or not. The Geog teacher did a couple of Teams calls a couple of evenings too. Average state school in deprived area.

It's half term, no revision for the first half of the week, its time for a break! Ds doing gcses will revise tomorrow and Friday and a bit at the weekend. Dd doing a levels had last weekend and the beginning of this week off but she's been locking in today. She'll study tomorrow and the weekend.
Im not forcing either to study, they should know it by now, mostly just need reminders, and at the end of the day they're just exams, no one will die if he gets a 6 instead of a 7.

I've been away but DD seems to have been working well. She had the weekend off and said she only did 2 hours on Monday as it was too hot but we have a garden office with aircon so I reminded DH on Monday night that she could use that and apparently she was able to do a good amount of revision since she moved to doing it there.

No lessons or extra revision sessions since they broke for study leave 1st May - it's a grammar which gets good results.

Limited revision happening here. DS is trying to get a couple of hours done each morning before the sun gets too strong but it’s just so hot.

No extra half term revision sessions in DS’s v high performing indie. And none in the state comp I work in (which generally gets excellent results). A few miles down the road though a friend’s DC goes to a comp with much poorer results and they are offering extra revision sessions during half term and ‘pre exam booster breakfasts’ every single exam day. I suspect school exam performance is the key - those trying to improve results across a cohort will offer more, those that don’t need to probably won’t.

we are at a low performing rural comp in poor area and they have put on revision sessions through the Easter holidays and half term and every night after school for past 4 weeks in various subjects. It’s amazing and I’m so in awe of the teachers. They have managed to finally have a year of just above average results last year because of this kind of intervention so I don’t think it’s going to stop. The sessions tend to be aimed at kids who need to pass the exams rather than the higher achievers, so my dd hasn’t been to them apart from the maths ones which were set in ability.

DS1 (state) had a selection of sessions last year that could be paid for at Easter , nothing in DS2s private school apart from f this 1 teacher . I presume he thinks his class need it so very grateful to him

This is great advice thank you. Nothing going on with revision here and I'm at work. I left out some physics books this morning but I'd be amazed if he opens them.

Friday I am working from home and I'm going to take him to Starbucks for some revising and to make a weekend plan.

A little bit of relief from the heat here in London today, whacked all the windows open when I felt a cooler breeze earlier. Poor DD had to sit through over an hour of blow drying for her hair trial yesterday, absolutely brutal.

Shes done some RE and physics the last 2 days but it’s most definitely much more chilled than the lead up. She’s going to the park with her friends this afternoon and then no other plans for the rest of the week so I’m assuming more revision.

DD is in a good state comp and her school has had very minimal additional sessions, I’ve seen on Facebook some local schools have put on full programmes, also state, looks very impressive what has been available.

DS has done 2.5 hours of maths today, and we’re going to go to a nature reserve this afternoon. He said he’ll do another short session later.

None here either!

We went to a big starbucks this morning - nice and cool with the aircon. Bit of relief!

Dd is really struggling to focus on her own, the heat doesn’t help but she’s just generally deflated. I’ve booked the week off work so I can be around. She did geography yesterday & is planning a couple of days of physics now then back to maths. Seems never ending.

Oh- we are at a private but definitely no extra revision lessons here over half term.