Year 10 2026/27 Support

Another one with no idea what he wants to do for A Levels or further.

I'm sure school will start bugging him about work experience school soon but at the moment we are just getting used to the extra homework and trying to get him to enjoy English. As a STEM boy he doesn't see the point of it

How are the DC settling in to Yr10? DS seems fine, homework is slowly ramping up but he never has had much in earlier years so it’s still very manageable. We haven’t managed to get work experience sorted yet, doesn’t seem that there are many opportunities in our semi-rural area but we need to find something or he’ll spend a week in school doing it virtually!

All good here so far. DD managing to just about keep up with the homework alongside the socialising. Wants to do work experience at the local surf place as we Iive near the coast, is going to ask them this weekend if they might have her. She has also approached library and been given a form to complete but apparently others have also enquired!

All good here as well. We are waiting to see if DS gets a place on D of E and a trip to Berlin in the Spring.

Our school hasn't talked about work experience yet but hopefully they will soon as DS hasn't got a clue what he wants to do

No mention of work experience at all yet. He has lots of tests coming up- Biology, Physics, Maths, Latin.
He’s signed up for silver DofE- rowing for physical (he rows 5x a week), D&D for activity and interact club for volunteering.
He’s going to Rome at half term for 3 nights with school. It’s a very busy time already

Another school hater here - but on the plus side he’s been going in and getting on with it. Seems to have adjusted to his new timetable and is doing the homework. He refuses to get involved with anything after school. Also refused to go to the Sixth form open day for the main College his school feeds into. Hopefully he will engage with it better in y11.

Has anyone else found that DCs grades have slipped a little this term?

DS has just had an assessment week for some subjects and he hasn't got as higher grades then he did in Y9. He says that he did revise for them but "forgot" the answers and the questions were hard and he didn't know how to answer them which is really unusual him.

I'm wondering if the step up to GCSE work has come as a shock and once he has a bit more time at this level it will become easier.

Or if it's just a slump that all Y10s go through

Weve only had one test so far (geo) and she did really well 90%+ however she generally really doesnt like the subject and didnt want to pick it because while this topic (deserts and food webs is like bio) is ok she doesnt like several others.
I think we have maths test before half term and a report in oct but they wont generally have anything to put in that so...?

The homework situation is crazy (because she has slow processing it takes twice as long) weve got science x2, maths, re, english lit, art and spanish all currently set. And considering they say 45-60 mins each. But most do have a week to complete it. I dont think its to much but maybe too much due to the sen

Anyone else with a DC doing an HPQ? DS will be doing his this year, and is quite fired up by the idea of doing his own project. I don’t know how useful the qualification will be for him in reality, but it will be useful to learn research skills.