Last term of Year 13. Gulp.

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All welcome no matter which path your dc have chosen.

Me too Ursula :(

So another breakfast cooked. Another x to go on the calendar. After today 10 exams and 8 breakfasts to cook. Good luck exam takers.

Fantasy I hope your dd is feeling better this am.

Thanks all for the good wishes. I bought pizza and we played World of Warcraft together and today is another day. Downey I keep telling him that people come out of the other side of this and emerge as functional human beings. We see people later in their life without knowing what difficulties they have overcome to get there, rather like you and your admissions tutor.

We have a chalk paint door in the kitchen with his college timetable at the top of it - this morning I took a wet cloth and wiped off Monday and Tuesday. He's done with those now, Wednesday will face the cloth tonight.

Good luck to all those with exams this week, I am so glad that he only has five exams on four days because I'm not sure I'm cut out for another marathon. It must feel like GCSEs all over again.

Knitting

Good luck all today 🍀

You still have 10 to go OYBBK? Bloody hell.

Knitting So sorry your DS had to cope with that

Fantasy I hope your DD starts to feel better, or at least better enough to be able to manage the exams, and that they can work out how to help her in the longer term.

NoHaudin Thanks for the information...I've re-checked the email and am now wondering if we maybe didn't send the evidence? I can't imagine that we wouldn't have, but also can't remember doing it either if that makes sense? I've sent it again anyway and we will see what happens...

Wow. Some exams seem to go on for ever. DD had 4 last week, 2 this week and will have 2 next week. Then off to the Canaries for a week the day after the last exam with 4 other girls.

Good luck everyone

I know Ursula :( Most of them are comparatively fairly stress free, but there's a few really critical ones to come yet. We've got to the point where we've decided that dd needs to build in lots of rest to get through it all. I think that's more important than revision at this point.

At the beginning of the Year dd was all hahaha look how many papers I'm doing. What was she thinking?

Day after the exams finish someone is going to cook me breakfast and I'm going to have it in bed!

" We've got to the point where we've decided that dd needs to build in lots of rest to get through it all. I think that's more important than revision at this point."

Very sensible. I suggested that DD did nothing at all yesterday evening. Her next exam isn't until Monday, so I am taking her into town this morning to get her new glasses and just mooch around, then back to revision this afternoon. She will have most of Saturday off to go to a music festival thing in town, but will be revising tomorrow, Friday and Sunday. I think it is important to do nice stuff in between.

I told dd to take the pill constantly through her A levels to stop her getting her period. Hers are hideous and the doctor had said we could do this for GCSEs so we did the same for A levels.

However, it didn't stop her getting a stomach bug in the first week of A levels (had to sit near the front but it also wiped out her revision the week before) and now she has terrible hayfever.

But at least we are nearly there. We only have 4 more to go

The closer we get to the end, the more I am starting to worry about results day even though it's a few months away!

I just had a little cry when I saw dds hot water bottle in the bathroom.

That sounds like a really good plan Lonicera. I'll have to think of something nice to do with dd at the weekend.

I'm paranoid about tummy bugs Daffo, it's going around here at the moment.

oh no Ursula. Not what she needs.

"I'm paranoid about tummy bugs Daffo, it's going around here at the moment."

Me too. DD was really off colour on Saturday, but was fine for Monday's exam.

this morning I am feeling knackered suddenly. Another 6am start, driving dd to school for chemistry, I arranged to meet some relatives for a walk (a mistake) Such a beautiful day I am longing to get out but so many fiddly jobs to get done people to greet people to despatch..

Someone else texted me to ask if they could borrow a D of E knapsack and I felt it was the end of the world to have to sort through the cupboard. I did find it though and it didn't smell of catpee, which is something, in our house!! Now there are coats all over the floor and my neck hurts from driving!!

Otherwise all calm. House a complete mess though. So many jobs left undone, but I am trying not to fret about that.

Ds1 seems chipper. He confessed he didn't put anything about mountains and freedom but he wanted to...aargh, he ran out of time. He's not really engaging in Rossetti. I wonder if he knows very much for the music paper either. Am I mad to be obsessing about these things. I wish he would just decide this summer he wants to become a gardener or an adventurer, anything which doesn't involve intellectual analysis, reading books or going to uni!

sending good thought for the History paper today for those doing Italy.

We all have things we obsess about Nettles. At least you aren't eyeing up people suspiciously if they seem at all off colour and trying to work out how you can get dc out for a fun few hours without them coming into contact with germs. My crazy is beginning to show I fear.

Glad she fought whatever it was off Lonicera.

We have decided dd will take her pill back to back this month to avoid period pain for her last exam.

Good wishes for those with exams today.

Maybe a day off yesterday wasn't such a bad idea though dd just can't work as intensively as some of your dcs seem too so she needs to do little and often.

OYBBK 10 still to go .

Good luck to all historians today!! Oh my goodness I will be glad when Italy is done today!!

Anyone else with RS on Monday?

dd2 came home yesterday saying I love RS I want to do it for A level

what is it with my dds and bloody RS??

Sorry to hear of the DC's feeling unwell and the tribulations that come with it. It's hard enough for them all at the moment without having to deal with illnesses/other traumas. I do hope they recover and feel better soon.

DS has no exams today. Revision day as he has Geography tomorrow. He's more than halfway through now so just crossing off dates off the list as we go.

Good luck to all with exams today and for all who have extra stuff of all kinds going on. You are doing so well.

Just wondering if any one knows about this. DD did an EPQ. It was submitted in Oct/Nov and she got the result in Jan. Obviously she submitted her UCAS form before she got the result, but its not being done at the same time as all the other exams - ie now. So my question is will her Uni's get the result through UCAS (or however they get the A level results) or does she need to tell them and if so how? Its not part of her conditional offer, so I don't know if that makes a difference if them getting it. But as she got an A* I am thinking that it might make them more lenient if she drops a grade!

Today is Mao's China for DS1. He certainly knows a lot about it; let's hope he's able to get some of that down on paper.

Thank you for the reminders about DSA. I need to chase the GP for the letter DS1 requested 2 weeks ago.

DD has just announced that she doesn't 'know' Italy and apparently had a cry whilst I was out.

Oh well. I'm not going to say anything about her failure to start revising at Christmas as planned.

I'm not going to say anything about her failure to start revising at Christmas as planned

Just think it loudly in your head while gritting your teeth and offering her a cup of tea