Year 12 #1 - GCSEs are sooo last year!

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New thread to see us through to Christmas?

Not posted for a couple of days so I hope I haven't missed too much. Well done to all the maths medalists. I am impressed at your dgd's energy levels Sos, and her extra curricular stuff sounds really beneficial

Noticed whistl's uncertainty about the identities of name changed posters. If anyone doesn't know who I am feel free to pm me (I changed a week or two after results) - but I've only been posting since early May (the day of paper 1 of the IGCSE History exam) so am not a proper long termer...

All fine here with dd in sixth form college and ds in y10 (except that ds has just lost his new football boots on his way to school - arggh). We also have a sick family dog who has spent all day at the vets vomiting and is receiving IV fluids etc . But all else is fine

Interesting re the JL advert - I think its a love / hate one. I'm not keen on it - not an Elton fan, and didn't find it especially festive.

Well done kick dd, any type of certificate is great especially when you remember only top % actually take the tests.

KickBishopBrennan well done to your DD. 🏅

Agree wit Brainmelt - DS may have dropped maths but it's good to hear how other dcs are getting on with the challenges. Well done on even sitting it - not to mention all the great results!
DS and I are going to have to have another talk about his lack of organisation. Sigh.

Another thing this thread has to answer for 😂. DS was looking at some d&d YouTube clips and wishing he could play in RL so I told him some of your dc had clubs at school. Lo and behold he started one up and had a really fun time this week. It has taken over his free time so will have to watch that next term but he s had a lot of fun and he s so shy, not the sort of boy to initiate something, so happy he s take some initiative.

It turns out the competition was Hans Woyda. They won. He can't remember the name of the other school but he remembered all the questions. 😂

Oratory1 that's great, well done to him for setting it up. I'm glad it's going well.

Well done the first

Well done kick
Dgd and dd have gone to see a showing of a film of BTS stage appearances. Everyone knows how mad dgd is on them! They went to an all you can eat Chinese place first. I will pick them up later tonight from railway station. Luckily she had a couple of free periods so could cram some more revision in for tomorrows end of unit assessment test in biology!

Well done with successful maths challenges and social success.

Starting his own D & D club, impressive way to meet like minded people, Oratory.

What’s BTS, Sost ?

DS3 hasn’t heard about the SMC results yet. At least I know to ask from this thread!

BTS in the K-pop band which recently had 2 sell out nights at the O2, have upset the Japanese by wearing nuclear bomb t shirts and upset everyone else as well by wearing Nazi styled hats. They are this decade's version of the Monkees. DD is desperate to see the movie, but there are only limited shows and it clashes with tennis matches.

Well I lost track of which of you have DC at college with DD weeks ago. I don't think she's friends with any purple-wearing, D&D mad artists, but I could be wrong.

There should have been a comma in between the mad and artist.

BTS film was very good and quite touching even dd enjoyed it!! Dgd gets a release from study via bts. She comes home from school has her tea then half hour wind down on her bts sites and then up to her room for study. She finishes now about 9 pm. Her study dies not come easy to her and I admire her courage and tenacity in continuing. She doesn't have much of a life which my dd and I regret but hopefully the rewards for all the slog will be worth it in the end.

Lots to catch up on after a few busy days at work. Congrats to all SMC entrants. Ds is dissapointed this year - like last year he was one mark of Olympiad and having reached it in Junior and Intermediate years really wanted to be able to put it on his Personal Statement. However much I tell him it doesn't matter he's being.....a bit 'teenage'!

Got just less than 2 weeks to go and then the G8 is over with too - has felt like a really busy few weeks and despite half term ds looks exhausted again - I hope the entirety of 6th Form isn't going to be like this!

DS had good news yesterday he scraped through to the BMO in the SMC with 102! He just missed it last year and would have asked school to enter him as a discretionary candidate if he'd not made it this year. Maybe your DS can do that kilash. It does seem to mean so much to them.

Fortunately his mood seems ok atm, although I still don't really know if he is hiding things as he got so used to it over the past year or 2.

Congrats to your ds abitofastate. DS was better this morning - in a bit of a 'huff' last night. I think they just need to learn that this is the way it goes sometimes -they can't always be on top form all the time. It's an important lesson to learn too - life is like that and when they are older there will be many missed opportunities. Particularly important for kids that seem to sail through everything in life with no difficulties (like my ds

Hi Kilash, would you put Olympiad qualification on your personal statement? DS got there with the IMC last year, but he didn't manage to get approx 1/3rd of the marks on the actual Olympiad, so he walked away with nothing.
He felt then, that he'd have been better off at least getting a merit on the Kangaroo again.

Ds's school are giving out the SMC results today, so DS doesn't yet know what he got. He doesn't seem bothered though, and he say no one else seems bothered either, apart from the teachers. So, it is just me and the teachers then!

Congrats to your DS, abitofataste., and to everyone else's DC who gave it a go.

whistl that sort of thing is more for the school reference than the personal statement. At our school they're asked to write a crib sheet for the teachers to remind them of those sorts of achievement ahead of the reference writing. I think they do it in the summer of Y12.

Gosh it seems to be racing up fast when I write that down! Only the oldest of my other seven DC did a two year sixth form (their school did GCSEs in Y10 from 2007) - I'm completely out of touch with the way the sixth form flies.

DH tells me that sixth form goes by really quickly too. I never experienced it myself, so this is all new to me.

I think It's only vaguely interesting of you know what it is and have a DC who wants to take maths. I assume lots of places don't bother. I only knew it existed because you all mentioned it and then DD said they had done it. I had to look up what the results actually meant because It's not on my radar.

abitofastate well done to him for getting through to BMO1! I'm pleased that we have a qualifier from this thread. Getting through in Y12 is impressive, as I imagine it's mostly Y13s.

DS2 has decided against entering as a discretionary candidate, and will just do the kangaroo.

Kilash 101 is an excellent score (especially for a Y12) and he should be proud. I can see that it's frustrating to miss BMO1 by a mark, but there's always next year.