Ds gcse results gone awol.

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Ok, probably not actually awol but can anyone help.

Ds took 1 gcse this year in year 10 by due to being in holiday couldn't collect results and asked school to send them.

School confirmed this.

Arrived home last night and not here but of course school shut and voicemail is full.

I'm sure you can appreciate he's extremely disappointed.
I've obviously played it down and explained result will be the same whether he knew last Thurs, yesterday or when he goes back next week.

Ive emailed school but I have no idea when they will open office and get around to reading it.

Is there any other way I can find it out for him? Contact exam board direct etc?

My DD got some exam results posted home because she was away on results day. But they were only posted when school reopened so she got them the day after she had returned.
Hindsight is a great thing, OP. I very much doubt you will get the results before he returns next week. I would try to get him to accept that he won't get his results until he goes back to school now. Teachers will not be reading emails from parents. Admin staff will be prepping for the new term. The results may not yet have even been posted out.

If you haven't had a response so far I would think your best bet is to wait until school starts again (would Monday be inset day in your area?). I would imagine the exams officer isn't in school now as many are term time only and so won't be reading or replying to emails and if your school is like mine no one will give out results without checking with the exams officer in case they get it wrong

Could you go down to the school again? 11.30 is a time when people take their coffee break so that maybe why reception was closed. Might be worth knocking on stsff room door.

I went I thought people would realise I knew it was shut because I'd been there. I knew voicemail was full because I phoned.
Sorry if you felt I was rude but I'd just had to deal with my ds having another big educational disappointment and loads of people piled on to tell me to do what I'd done, that the result didn't matter and that I should have posted in a different section.

If people took the time to read the OP the question was clear. What else can I do (if anything)

And loads of posters have all agreed some people were and have been unnecessarily unkind.

Ds is dealing with the fact he may have to wait another week. But if I can surprise him with them before then - I would like to be able to.

Vitality read the thread. The issue wasn't that he missed results day. The issue is his results weren't at home yesterday when he expected them too and school doesn't start until next Thursday and so that's another week.

We are all human and if we expect a delivery of something and it doesn't turn up we get disappointed. There MN threads about deliveries being half and hour late and demanding a refund!

Lots of people don't go to school on results day. I didn't. They were posted to me and my neighbour went in and got them when I rang her. And god rest her soul (amazing lady she was) she was petrified of telling me the wrong thing

Hopefully they do a staggered start so he doesn’t have to wait until Thursday

Nope. School term starts Thursday.
There is an inset Wednesday but I am at work and his school is too far away for him to get there alone.
My mum has hospital but hopefully my dad may be able to take him down.

OP, sorry you and your ds are going through this.
Of course it is a disappointment.

My son is year 11 and they had very strict rules around what to do on results day if you couldn't collect in person. That all had to be signed and countersigned before the end of term.
It is possible that the person who promised to post them didn't put all that in place.

But he also did one GCSE early last year, and those results were posted out to them all. So it is a bit nonnesense for people to say they can't post due to GDPR etc.

Schools seem to have been open for 2 days over exam results and then shut again until term starts, so it seems as if you have missed the window. You may find office staff are in earlier and start to clear the backlog of emails etc, so worth leaving messages wherever you can, but sadly you will probably have to wait until they re-open.

they won't give results out over phone or email unless it has been signed for in advance.

Whenever the inset days are there will be someone at the office then. Try calling that day, try a few times because staff might have to attend safeguarding training so be away from the phone.

Exams officers are possibly checking emails but not all will be.

Hi, if your ds sat an exam with edexcel and is registered with results plus, they can see their exam result there. Otherwise office staff will be in 2moro or you can try emailing headteacher

youarenotkidding

What exam did he do

Apologies if you mentioned it already

God there are some bitches on this thread.

Our school put the results on the pupil portal. Which dd forgot the password to. So we also had an agonising wait. Sympathies OP.

Rufus gcse statistics.

We don't know office staff will be in tomorrow. Not all schools are the same.

I do have headteachers email so I'll contact him if I have no luck tomorrow. He's a great head and he's so proud of how far ds has come. He wasn't there when he started but has said he's heard what he was like ()

His key worker and HOY both left end of term so that's a no go!

I think this is probably bothering him more because he also has new changes (keyworker, academic 1:1 and hoy) when he gets back too.

Nic it is edexcal. I found that earlier and got my hopes up until I realised he isn't registered and I can't register him! Thanks though. That's the sort of thing I was hoping to find out.

I’m just going to send you a quick pm youarenot save clogging this up with silly questions

Dunno where all these schools are stuffed with office staff in the holidays, the only people in my school this week are builders, cleaners and the odd teacher sorting out their classroom.

Teachers are starting to gear up for going back to work so might be checking their email - you could try emailing his maths teacher?

Actually, I remember a kid emailing me once for their GCSE result and I wasn’t allowed to email it to them, they had to wait till school opened. That was before GDPR as well.

What about emailing senco or maths teacher or head of maths - there will be master lists of grades achieved floating around and these teachers will be starting to gear back up so all may access the results for him.

Ahh that's a shame, get registered for next year as our year 11s all did just in case they weren't around to pick up in person. Hope you get some luck 2moro

I was an exams officer. The exam board will not give out the results to candidates. This is true even if he was a private candidate. You have to get them from the exam centre, ie the school where he took them. Schools generally tell pupils beforehand what will happen if they can't collect exam results on results day. They can email or post them, but the exams officer at the school has to a) be happy to take on that extra work on a very busy day, and b) be confident that the pupil has given consent to this and will receive the results themselves.

I'd email the exams officer and ask politely, but if she's too busy, your DS will just have to wait until next week. I know it's tough - when I took my GCSEs a long time ago, the school held everyone's back for about a week because one person's were missing and they wanted to be fair!