To think the Year 11 cohort this year....

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...have had enough upheaval without 2 bank holiday Mondays in a row JUST before their exams start?!

I don't care what anyone says, the Year 11s have suffered considerably because of Covid, then they've had years of no teachers or constantly changing teachers due to staff shortages, the teachers strikes and to top it off, 2 bloody bank holidays!

My DS will be missing important lessons plus much needed after school intervention just before the exams start. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a Friday to make a long weekend as at least it would be different lessons he'd be missing!

because some schools ask pupils to come in every day until the last exam that affects the whole group eg last maths exam, and then they are on study leave (basically left school) for the last few exams to trickle in.

It works much better for kids whose home lives are not helpful to them studying. Come into school every day for supervised revision.

Peaches not all Y11s are in this position. I am not bothered by the extra BH but my 16 yo has various SEN, will have missed 6 whole school days this year because of bloody strikes (nobody in school) and they haven't even finished the curriculum in several subjects.

No revision courses put on and I have had to pay for online tutor sessions because Mocks demonstrated that although she knows the answers she can't get them on paper enough to get the marks. We are looking at the difference between level 3 per her mocks and level 4 to 5 to get into 6th form college. If it was the difference between 7s and 8s and she could study alone I wouldn't care.

She was abandoned during Covid with zero help from the school. Apparently it didn't matter because we didn't fight to get her an ECHP.... (SENCO said).

TBH it's so close now (and I do get that it seems a shame their last 2 weeks in school are both 4 days) that I don't think 1 day will make any difference...

Our y11s are in, but I bet they'd rather be at home revising.

They have had eleven years of school. COVID was when they were KS3. Two days here or there are not going to undo eleven years of work or compensate for eleven years of not bothering.

You obviously have no experience of how badly some children have been affected by Covid. Lucky you.

All of my dd's curriculum has finished - mostly before Easter and the rest last week. She is going on study leave next week as a result of medical issues, but for some reason school are making most of them attend every day until May half term and only going on study leave then. Doesn't make much sense to me as study leave was where I thrived, but there we go!

Anyway, my point is, the curriculum teaching really should be finished now and whether they're revising in lessons or at home it doesn't make much difference to most - unless they need support to engage with revision at all - so I don't see what difference the bank holidays make either.

I used to use my spare days revising for exams. I imagine many will do that.