New Batch of Year 13 parents this way!

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Hopefully this thread will appear on TIO! No need to use it til our old thread is done, but at least we have it for when we are ready.

Just making sure I don't lose you all.

DS1 has managed to borrow a tent, which [name of girl I've never heard of] is dropping here this evening because DH kindly offered to drive everyone to Reading tomorrow.

Let us imagine that you have to be up at 2am so your mother can drive you to the back of beyond to get on a coach. It is now 8pm.

Are you now:
a) relaxing having packed earlier today
b) packing
c) gaming and chatting to your mates online whilst ignoring the suitcase your mother pushed into your room for some mysterious reason.

Congratulations, you chose C! You are my 17 year old son.

(I wish the 2am start were imaginary but it's going to be all too real)

Haha Dragon, I think my dd sounds similar to your dd! She spent most of yesterday shopping for new beautiful folders and filing systems, and most of today organising all of her notes form last year and preparing all the beautiful folders for this year's notes, it's all organised and beautiful, but there's no sign of any work on PS yet here either (Which she said was this week's job!)

Well done on the Theory success!

DD should have been going to Leeds this weekend but her group couldn't seem to organise themselves and in the end decided against it. Probably a good thing as they're back at school on Tuesday.

Hope all those dc who are off to festivals this week have a brilliant (and safe!) time!

I am currently hiding with wine and pizza in my office, while the rest of the house swarms with approx 30 17 year olds! The "little gathering" definitely looks like a party to me!

2am Knitting?!

DS and his pals have bought a new 6 man tent for a bargain from Tesco and a gazebo - not just a basic put up just in case it rains one....oh no this has side panels and "windows". I'm not quite sure how they are planning to transport everything....they only have little cars...

at times I am rather grateful for my non partying, non festival going daughter.

Well done on the theory pass.

We are currently camping so no progress is being made on PS as such. DD and DH climbed Snowdon today.

At home DD's files are waiting for her, also all beautifully organised. Surrounded by the chaos that is the rest of her room!

Knitting, poor you! Hope he gets sorted.

DH and DS2 are off to a Festival at the weekend, it's a local one and DS2 is playing. DD is working and annoyed she can't go.

I hope the weather stays fair for all our festival going offspring.

I'm sure the gazebo will be well used.

This evening I learned that the tent that was dropped off is not the one that DS1 will be using. Because he doesn't have to wait for GCSE results, he's in the 'advance party' who will be going on Wednesday evening to pitch everyone's tents.

The tent he will actually be using is a teepee. 😂

Not a lot of work on a PS here either. I've one to do too and I've about 100 words

DD's school made them start their personal statements in the summer term. She has already completed the first draft.

Checking in from hot and sticky China.
Personal statement done and reviewed by school tutor, deadlines for the rest of this year for internal assessments and extended essay received (!) and already in third week of school.

It is pouring with rain here. It is going to be one wet and muddy festival. She has Gold DofE expedition the weekend after next. Rather her than me.

I think we are the other side of the mountains to you Ursula, it's a bit grey and grim here but not wet.

It was dry between 2-4.30am this morning but the flashes of lightening were a bit disconcerting in all that darkness. One of the organisers was very perky and admitted that he hadn't bothered going to bed and when I was thirty years younger I probably wouldn't have bothered either. There were parents stood at the side of the road presumably waiting to wave the coach off but I saw DS onto it and I was off. Driving home I was telling myself that my reward for the effort I've put into the musical child will be if he's holding an offer of EE before Christmas and I can sit out the whole firm and insurance business.

It's either coffee or another hour in bed and the promise of a nap this afternoon.

kitten thanks for getting us all up and running again

Well, we are back from hols & DD has ripped the dreaded results envelope open! She got ACCC. She's very happy with the A but disappointed with one C as was predicted an A, so not sure what happened there! I have been getting her scripts back & working through the UMS like a loon as she wants one paper remarked as 1 point off a B. Did I really have a holiday?? Feels like I'm back in the thick of it again already!

PS - one sort of draft done, but DD still absorbing her results, so no chance of getting her to concentrate on 2nd draft yet, which would make life a bit easier (sigh)

Non festival going teen here too. He's written notes for PS, (which in note form are over 4000 characters!) but not actually drafted it yet.

Thunder and torrential rain in South Yorkshire today. It is so dark that we need the lights on.

Why on earth do some people love this kind of weather?

DS has his scripts waiting for him, we went in on Friday and they rang yesterday (Tuesday) to say that they were ready. I have a letter giving me authority to deal with the exams office in his absence but I'm giving myself a short break from parenting this week and they can stay where they are until he gets back.

Oh, can I join? Another one here with DD off to Reading festival. Theory test this afternoon (gulp)
First draft of PS done but don't think it's been looked at since. No AS grades here so still don't know what the predicted grades will be. In fact, I feel like I'm the one getting ready for uni as little miss laid back is very casual about it all. Didn't even go and pick up result for EPQ last week, said 'ah, it'll wait a couple of weeks'

The rain has trickled down to a drizzle here...Leeds is forecast to have decent weather after today according to our weather apps.

DS had the intention of drafting his PS over the holidays but unsurprisingly hasn't even made a start. He has a few days next week to put something together before he goes back to school.

I'm glad dd doesn't do parties or festivals too . I always know where she is and what she's doing (bedroom, watching YouTube mostly), no worries about getting up at silly o'clock to take her anywhere, or the house getting trashed by parties.

I'm glad so many others are similar with the beautifully organised files and folders sitting in a health hazard chaotic bedroom, while ignoring the things that actually need to be done, like personal statements. It makes me feel so much better. And to be fair, I have a beautiful file of notes for the new A level syllabus, sitting in my own pit of a room (it's a classroom though, and I'm only just moving into it next week), while ignoring what actually needs to be done (UCAS references for the class I taught last year). So I can see where she gets it from.

If any one you with DCs doing personal statements get chance, there is a thread in FE asking a question about them which I can't answer. I have invited the poster over here, but don't think they've posted yet.

Checking in after a very long time not on this thread, though have been lurking. Dragon my DS doesn't do parties or festivals either and does do YouTube!

Have posted on Uni applications thread as well. DS has been working on EPQ over the summer, I had come to terms with him not doing one, as it's not really necessary, and then he's decided he is going to. It's vaguely related to physics, which is now his choice for uni, so should give him something to put on his personal statement, which is perhaps the motivation?

Feeling a bit anxious about short time of holiday left before year 13 proper and the what about's have to become decisions and actions.

Such a nice thread. Teenagers described all seem very normal to me.

I wish my DD was a stay at home type - Reading feels abit scary!

PS - have double the amount of characters and she's already pruned it. But luckily is sounding like a Spanish and History App now rather than Spanish and politics! As teacher says she almost has too much going on!

Bedroom also a tip but so is her desk! No filing here.