To not go to the GCSE revision evening for parents?

[CrappyDiem]

1. I went 2 years ago.

1. It's not me that needs to revise.

1. D2 is highly unlikely to do any revising ever, whether I know what she should be doing or not.

1. If I suggest what she should do she will break things, possibly me.

1. I'm very tired and in need of wine.

1. There's something wrong with my eyes and it's all blurry soI shoudn't drive.

1. I truly can't be arsed.

^^ arf at all the people without teenagers.

Yanbu. Are they really going to tell you anything different? School meetings are always boring.

Enjoy your wine.

And before you judgy types say you feel sorry for my child, I will tell you that he is school prize winner many times over. So appears to be doing alright despite my indifference to meetings and wine consumption.

"And before you judgy types say you feel sorry for my child, I will tell you that he is school prize winner many times over. So appears to be doing alright despite my indifference to meetings and wine consumption."

I am jealous of the fact that you have a self motivated child. I don't and need to use every tactic I can to motivate my daughter to do any work at all. She is bright, but needs pushing.

Top tip-back off and let them discover their own motivation.

i wouldn t go either.they will have covered everything she needs to know about revision in scnool many times

This will be the first cohort in some years to be taking terminal exams, rather than having taken modules through Y10 and Y11. The stakes are rather higher, as these may be their first publicexams (depending on whether it's a school that does early entry) and it will probably be their first sustained sequence of exams. Any resits will have to be of the whole exam, not just individual modules. Claiming that this year is just like two years ago is misinformed, and any serious school will be doing things very differently.

Yes, I have a child in Y11 and a child in Y13, in the same school. Yes, what's going on both for mocks and for the actual exams is substantively different to two years ago.

They study what they have been taught in class, they write it down in an exam. If they do well enough, they pass.

During the exam period they should not eat crap and should get enough sleep.

Be supportive.

There's your meeting in a nutshell.