GCSE '18s (20) - half term beckons!

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Yes Sticker, sociology could be an option too. Particularly since if all else fails with a creative career (it shouldn't - she should be able to find a commercial outlet for her creative skills), she thinks she might join the police!

@LimitIsUp - English as a dyslexic is clearly not as weird as we might think. DDs doing English Lit too. If anyone had told me that she would be doing it for A Level 10 years ago I would have laughed in their faces.....mind you, her teachers would have probably laughed too 😁

DD is thoroughly enjoying the English Language course so far. She wasn't interested in taking Lit, but is enjoying the analysis within the Language course.

Good for her bpisok - I guess there are wordsmiths like AA Gill who were dyslexic but made successful careers in English. SPAG isn't everything

Relieved to see your response from the college has been positive. Waving at you from a few miles away!

Waving right back

Yep, I think we've got our dc in a decent college there Sticker

Adding into the mix my DS who uses literally no punctuation and spells phonetically but managed a stupidly high grade in English gcse (with the aid of a laptop)

Impressively quick work from the college Limit and excellent news that she has options. Great that she addressed it so quickly.

Funnily enough at the last parents evening, DS’s English teacher said he should seriously consider doing it for A Level. I almost fell off my chair.

So is anyone else changing courses or are we all settled now? It's surprising how many have changed their options since the end of last year. A large proportion of her year have changed or dropped one, but she's probably the most radical having gone from maths and sciences to all humanities but she's def enjoying it.

Product design sounds interesting. I can imagine being able to do something career wise with product design, art and psychology (understanding consumer purchasing decisions, planning the product, designing it and making it).

Just over 2 weeks and they are doing exams again. The summer holidays seem so long ago already.

I know I have posted this here not long ago but in case anyone missed this talk where Johnathan Mooney describes going from hiding in the toilets in school to avoid reading out loud in class, to becoming a writer here it is:

It is particularly relevant to the English Lit and dyslexia discussion. I'm not his agent

Completely changing the subject but I have managed to secure Ed Sheeran tickets for next August!!!

Vaguely linked to feel good clips and Ed Sheeran - did anyone see the clip in aibu of the crowd at the green day concert 2017 singing along to bohemian rhapsody. Very uplifting

Jealous- I want to see Ed Sheeran. DD hates him and I don't know anyone else who would be interested either.

As if he isn't already doing enough, DS2 has also volunteered to help run Classics Club at school.

He isn't even studying Latin or Classical Civilisation for A-level.

Another chum is changing from Eng Lit to Biology Limits and has a meeting to discuss it tomorrow!

Meanwhile DD left her history folder on the train and it was heading towards Leeds. We live on the south coast. Luckily another student from the college seems to have picked it up (after a mad dash to the station lost property office by me) and has made contact with DD. I love that student, I love that college, I have made my feelings abundantly clear to DD!

I saw Ed in the summer. That probably resulted in DD failing her further maths exam as she went to Wembly with me, had a panic attack and went into decline for the next few days. He was jolly good though & I did enjoy Jamie Lawson as support.

We saw Ed at Wembley too last summer and at the O2 the autumn before that and as he is "coming" home to Ipswich next summer and we are only just down the A14 it seems rude not to go!!

DH will come under sufferance unless I fibd someone else to come with me.

Shalom me too! I had three devices lined up ready at 9.55 this morning and got them within about 5 mins

I am very popular tonight!

He's not really my thing. I'm more of an aging indie kid. Dd adores him so it remains to be seen if I will be her plus one or if new girlfriend is still on the scene by next August.

We're going to Leeds. Which one are you going to?

Wow close one with the history folder on the train! Glad the other student had the gumption to pick it up!

How funny that another student is switching from Eng lit to biology

Oops still logged in under old name on phone - must change that

Looks like I missed the fun yesterday! (too busy on my day off from my pressured job enjoying a hobby ). Anyone who knows my d's would firmly assert you could not helicopter parent him if you tried- he is very much his own person!

Gosh sticker that other student was a star, what a relief.

DS never had any wobbles with his A levels but his degree choice appears to be up for grabs. He has wanted to do Maths with Stats for many years but now his Physics teacher is persuading him towards Physics. His Maths teacher is telling him he should do an accountancy internship, his Geog teacher is selling Geog! Perhaps the sooner he starts faster days the better!

Stickerrocks phew!
Good news today - review result in and DS’s RE grade went up to a 7. It’s very much all in the past as far as he’s concerned but I’m pleased for him!
Lucky chap has an inset day tomorrow, too.

All these successful remark/reviews make me wonder if I should have looked into it!

DS3's degree choice is sticking with maths ATM with a PGCE afterwards. I still don't think he's got the personality to be a teacher but we'll see. He could teach computing maybe? If he doesn't drop computing. Or earn lots of money as a programmer, whether he does maths or computing. But probably not a chemistry degree as it would be tricky to teach science with only one science A level.

@EllenJanesthickerknickers - he wants to be a teacher. Great role and he is to be really respected for it. Pretty much none of DDs friends want to be a teacher which is such a shame. To me it's the most important job in the country.....