Thread 28 - Corona Cohort Awaiting Offers, Advance Notice, Gap Years and New Jobs

[OrangeCinnamonCroissant]

This is a thread for supporting all young people post GCSEs 2020, regardless of their educational setting. It is respectfully requested that all are supportive and helpful to each other. If you want to start a debate, e.g state vs private, please don't within this thread. Please also be sensitive when responding to threads about grades.

Some of us have been here since first thread back in yr10, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. Everyone is welcome. It is hoped this will continue.

Our DS/DD may go down various paths (such as employment, apprenticeships, higher ed) We have decided for anyone interested they will most likely find us within the Further Ed board.
Previous Thread 27 Here

Thank you for a new thread@Orangecinnamoncroissant. Just place making. I am following all the ups and downs of your DCs with interest, but I haven't got much to say. DD had her mocks early January, but still no results and nothing from Bristol either.

Thank you

Thanks - 🍊 cinnamon 🥐 xx

Thanks, as always, for the new thread @OrangeCinnamonCroissant you are always so on top of this! Hope you’re doing well

Thank you for the new thread!

Thanks orange

Thanks @OrangeCinnamonCroissant, just need @singingstones list now......

Just posted on the old one but then realised this was new. Thanks.
DD said the advanced info for Spanish basically says it's all included!

Thank you for the 5hread @OrangeCinnamonCroissant.
Our girl still has covid.she’s lost over a week and is still quite sick, she says..I understand she can go back after 10 days but I’m not sure she will be well enough.. I’m not massively sympathetic to Ill health , I think she gets really comfortable with lying around all day, plenty of energy for watching crap and chatting , but if I suggest she does an hours work she reports that she just can’t. She does have a rotten cough though, and is testing positive. It’s probably me.

@Hattifatteners

Thank you for a new thread@Orangecinnamoncroissant. Just place making. I am following all the ups and downs of your DCs with interest, but I haven't got much to say. DD had her mocks early January, but still no results and nothing from Bristol either.

We are not getting any marks from the mocks ...feels like stabbing in the dark rather. Got interviews at end of month to get over with for tge favourite places ...just resigned to 'waiting for now

Who are my Hampshire ladies ?

This is bizarre!

www.hampshirelive.news/news/hampshire-news/alec-baldwin-contemplates-what-life-6614154

Thank you for the new thread

Thank you Orange.

Thanks @Orange.

Behold The List:
(usual apologies for mistakes and let me know if you want to be removed..)

@22Newnames / DS / Engineering / Lincoln (U/C), Bath, Durham, Warwick, Nottingham
@Alsoplayspiccolo / DD / English Lit + Film, Liberal Arts / Reading (BCC), Birmingham (AAB), RHUL (ABB), Southampton (ABB), KCL
@AnneofCleavage / DD / gap year + Primary Education / UWE (BBC), Winchester (120 pts), Sussex (BBB), Oxford Brookes (104 pts) Chichester
@Appuskidu / DD / Psychology / Nottingham, Birmingham
@BlueMarigold / DD / Biology / FIRM: Birmingham (AAA-AAB), INSURANCE: Lincoln (U/C), Lancaster (BBB), RHUL (BBB), Nottingham (ABB)
@CaliforniaDrumming / DS / UCL, Warwick, Nottingham
@cariadambyth / DD / History / Southampton (AAB), Warwick (AAA), RHUL (BBB), Bath Spa (U/C)
@ChristopherTracy / DS / Mech Eng / Nottingham (ABB), Kingston (ABB), Sussex (ABB-BBB), QMUL (ABB), Warwick
@collywobble / DS / PPE, Economics / Lancaster (ABB), Loughborough (AAB), Leeds (AAA-AAB)
@crazycrofter / DD / Psychology / Nottingham (ABB), York (ABB), Southampton (ABB), Manchester (AAA), Bath
@Decorhate / DS / Economics + Politics / Leeds, Sheffield, Southampton, Manchester, Bristol
@Delphigirl / DS / Oceanography / gap year + ACCEPTED: Dalhousie (CC), Southampton (ABB), Cardiff (BBB-BBC), Plymouth (112 pts)
@DoggerelBank / DS / Biotechnology / Bristol (ABB), Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow
@ealingwestmum / DD / Middle Eastern & European Studies / Bristol (ABBM2), Manchester (ABBM2), Leeds (ABM2), McGill, Durham
@esterfrewen / DS / History / FIRM: Cambridge, INSURANCE: Lancaster (BBC), Birmingham (ABB), Cardiff (ABB-BBB), Warwick (AAB)
@EwwSprouts / DS / Biology / Sheffield (AAB), York (AAB), Nottingham (AAB), St Andrews, Durham
@ExtremelyDetermined / History, Environmental Management / RAU (56 pts), Winchester (104 pts), Chichester (104 pts), Bournemouth (96 pts), RHUL (DMC)
@Fferny1 / DS / Sports Science / Oxford Brookes, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Surrey x 2
@Fiddlersgreen / DS / Journalism / Bournemouth (104pts), Brighton (BCC), Cardiff (ABB), Sheffield (ABB)
@Fonty / DS / History / Birmingham (AAB), Exeter (AAA) Edinburgh, Durham, St Andrews
@Fruitygal / DD / Biology / Lancaster, Sheffield (AAB-ABB), Exeter (AAB-ABB), York (AAB-ABB), Durham
@GoldenRuby / DD / Social Anthropology + Geography / Sussex (ABB-BBB), St Andrews, Edinburgh, Durham, Exeter
@Hattifatteners / DD / Vet Med / Nottingham (AAB), Bristol
@Heifer / DD / Biology / Nottingham (AAB), Sheffield (AAB-ABB), Sheffield Hallam (96pts), York (BBB), Loughborough (AAB)
@HibiscusIsland / DD / Biology / Nottingham, Southampton, Surrey, Bristol, Warwick
@Horace123 / DS / Classics / Oxford (39/666), Edinburgh (34/665), Exeter (36), UCL (36), Durham
@icanbewhatiwant / DS / History + Philosophy / FIRM: Sussex (DBB-DBC), INSURANCE: Gloucestershire (112 pts) Lancaster (DBB), Southampton, Herts
@Isthisjustnormal / DS / Comp Sci / York (AAA), Exeter, Warwick, Bath
@JustHereWithMyPopcorn / DS / Law / Nottingham (AAA), Birmingham (AAA), Warwick, York
@KingscoteStaff / DD / Medicine / Nottingham (biochem/med sci), Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Barts
@kiwiandcherries / DD / Primary Education / Winchester, Gloucestershire, Oxford Brookes, Chester, Kingston
@Knickerthief1 / DD / Child Nursing / York
@Monkey2001 / DS / Medicine / Manchester, Newcastle
@mummabear74 / DD / Environmental Science / York (AAB), Southampton (ABB), Cardiff (BBB-BBC), Nottingham (ABB)
@mummyinbeds / DS / Law + French Law / Birmingham (AAA), Kent (AAB), Warwick (AAB), Nottingham
@Nard75 / DS / Maths / Aston (BBC), Birmingham (AAA), Nottingham, Warwick, Manchester
@NCTDN / DD / Liberal Arts / Bristol (ABB), Warwick (AAA), Loughborough (ABB), Manchester (AstarAA), Durham
@Oblomov21 / DS / Accountancy / Southampton (ABB), Durham (ABB-AAC) QMUL, Reading, Nottingham
@OrangeCinnamonCroissant / DD / Music / Sussex (ABB-BBB), Surrey (BCC), RHUL (BBB-BBC), Southampton, Cardiff
@PaddingtonPaddington / DD / Music / FIRM: RWCMD (EE), Leeds Conservatoire
@Piggywaspushed / DS / Social Sciences / Birmingham (AAB-ABB), York (AAB-ABB), Sheffield (ABB-BBB), Bath (AAB-ABB)
@ProggyMat / DD / Classics / Oxford (AAA), UCL (AAB), Bristol (BBB), Edinburgh, Exeter (AAA)
@SandyBayley / DD / Medicine / Oxford (39/766), Newcastle, Leeds, Bristol
@sazzy5 / DS / Medicine
@Seeline / DD / Liberal Arts / Exeter (AAA), Kent (BBB), UEA (AAB), Nottingham (AAA), Birmingham
@Shadedog / DS / History / UCL, LSE, Edinburgh, Newcastle
@Shimy / DS / Management, Business + Management / Birmingham (AAB-ABB), Loughborough, Warwick
@singingstones / DS / Neuroscience / Exeter (ABB), Aston (BBB), Sussex (ABB-BBB), QMUL (ABB), Nottingham (AAB)
@sofakingcool / DS / Business, Economics / Bournemouth, Reading, Portsmouth, Cardiff
@Volterra / DS / Maths / Exeter (AstarAA), Bath (AstarAA), Southampton, Cardiff
@Wheresthebeach / DD / gap year + Marine Biology / FIRM: Swansea, Portsmouth (U/C), Southampton, Plymouth, Liverpool
@whoamitojudge / DD / Cabin crew training completed and work begins!
@Zebracat / DD / Liberal Arts, History+ / Warwick (ABB), Birmingham (ABB-BBB), RHUL with foundation (CCC), Cambridge Arts Foundation, Exeter
@ZittiEBuoni / DD / applying 2023 tbc

Thanks orange. Onwards, as Boris would apparently say.

Thanks for the new thread @OrangeCinnamonCroissant and also (Hampshire person checking in) yes to having seen the Alec Baldwin thing, I follow Hampshire Live too, very bizarre!

@singingstones thanks again for the updated spreadsheet, all present and correct here.

Thanks @OrangeCinnamonCroissant and @singingstones for keeping us all on track.

Dd tested positive for covid on Sunday, so feeling a bit hopeless about ds's 18 plans coming up...

Just catching up on the updates on content: ds reports some gaps on psychology and comp sci but not much change in maths. DD having been off school yesterday hasn't had a teachers view of GCSEs yet so I need to catch up on those. Started in a new role yesterday so was shattered and asleep at 8:30!

I do get frustrated with the amount of admin these changes create for teachers, kids and parents! DD has a series of checklists printed out for all her GCSE subjects for revision which we'll need to go through and rework. We'll make sure that happens, but I can't help thinking about those of her mates with less engaged parents who may continue to work through text books or exercise books in their revision - I wonder how much support school will give there to ensure the kids 'miss out' exactly the right things. In some ways A levels are easier as there are few subjects to be on board with - I do hate GCSEs!

Thank you Orange and Singingstones.

Thanks singing

Love the Alton article - I do have a bit of a soft spot for Alec B, even though I'm sure he's a nightmare handful in real life.

Thanks Orange and Singing
DD off school I’ll so we haven’t had teachers reaction yet. Seems a really mixed bag.

Thanks, Orange and Singing!

I agree IsIt I think a lot will depend on the teachers. Much harder with GCSE's than A levels as there is just so many more subjects.

If we don't get some sort idea from the school about ti all I'll write to the HofSixth asking about what sort of grade knowing the core content would represent. I suspect the answer will be 'your guess is as good as mine' but you never know. The real problem is if they say 'our understanding is....' will I believe that that's what will actually happen or will they pull the rug out from under the kids?

I don't know why @ExtremelyDelighted @singingstones I just found it so funny, him walking past the kebab shop and all that. I used to like Alec when we were younger! A few years ago a friend and I heard Russel Crowe was filming by the coast and staying at a nearby hotel , so we spent lots of time in a nearby pub hoping to meet him