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Thread 30 Covid Cohort, Mad March Hareing Towards Exams

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OrangeCinnamonCroissant · 13/03/2022 09:12

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.

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I've made this one a little bit earlier as things are so busy, at home and on thread, so please feel free to use up previous thread first Grin

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Seeline · 29/03/2022 09:51

DD not doing much work ATM - I think this is a short half term, and having the first 2 weeks taken up by mocks it's been hard to get back into the swing of things. School have said that they are going to have to sit paper 3 mocks after Easter in their weekly PSHE slots so they will be spread out over about 3 weeks, which I don't think is particularly helpful for general revision as they will need to concentrate on those specific exams rather than doing things in the order that would be most useful to individuals. As it is DDs first one is actually on the inset day before they actually go back to school so she really isn't pleased!

Prom is £50 - to be held in the local Hilton hotel

crazycrofter · 29/03/2022 10:20

Mocks after Easter is a bit late! They’ll want to be revising for the real things by then (hopefully!).

Dd has also pressed the button and firmed Nottingham (Southampton insurance). So glad that’s over!

Sorry to hear about ds’ illness @Volterra. Definitely submit mitigating circumstances.

Heifer · 29/03/2022 10:56

@crazycrofter - Well done - they do like to keep us hanging don't they :-) DD was very reluctant to do it - as she knew she needed to read through all the modules again just be to sure. I got it all ready on my PC in the office but she moaned I was breathing too hard so had to leave! She was very happy to Firm Nottingham, really likes their modules, but than wavered over insurance as they have changed modules recently and she isn't so keen now!. In the end she went for it anyway and said it would be fine.... Really hope she gets AAB for Nottingham or I can see results day being an issue with her not sure whether to go for insurance or trying elsewhere.....

@Wheresthebeach sorry to hear you may miss open day. Hope your DD feel better soonest.

@Oblomov22 - it sounds as though your DS is on course to do well, if he can get ABB with little effort and he wants to go to Nottingham am sure he will pull his socks up soon :-)

Heifer · 29/03/2022 10:57

Agree mocks being late after half term - my DD would not be happy. She gets cross if she is given homework once she is fully revising as the likes to revise in a certain order and it never matches the homework. Same reason she hates class revision sessions too..

Wheresthebeach · 29/03/2022 11:13

DD has tests after Easter, they are calling them mocks, but it's not a full set in exam conditions.

Monkey2001 · 29/03/2022 12:08

Friends have told me about the continuing impact of Covid in local schools. One apparently sent Y8 and Y9 home because so many teachers were off. Another said they had 4 classes in the hall watching a film due to staff shortage. In some ways the world feels back to normal, but it really isn't! I still worry that this will be the most unfair set of results yet, but I think we have been reasonably lucky and DS should get the right results.

EventuallyDelighted · 29/03/2022 14:44

One of our local secondaries is sending a different year group home every day (not y11) as so many are off with covid. It feels as though every time I get a message on my phone ATM its someone else saying they or a family member have got it.

Wheresthebeach · 29/03/2022 14:48

We're trying to take the approach of 'well at least it isn't right before her exams'. But with her asthma its a worry. Phone call with GP today to discuss numbers to look out for in terms of 'action needed'. Got told repeatedly to have a 'low threshold' for calling for help with her breathing and to call anytime I'm worried. I can't decide between being please/relieved with the support to worrying about it all.

I think so many kids have missed so much school that we're going to see low grade boundaries...at least that's what I hope.

22Newnames · 29/03/2022 16:54

Sorry for the absence from the thread but we are still very much a covid household here. I am feeling better than I was but still wiped out. DH is a few days behind me and quite unwell as I was, not worryingly so but unpleasantly so.

DS’s school is closing one year group each day this week (only yr 7,8,9 though).

DS has a prom, I think it was £45. It’s in a local country club and includes buffet meal.

Finally got DS’s report now. We knew his mocks were not great but he had been off with covid so wasn’t there when they gave all results out. He claimed not to know further maths apart from it was ‘bad’. Turns out it was a D. Mock results combined were AADD which is well away from anything he needs. The words in his report are all about how he is very capable so there is a glimmer there but still a tricky situation. Will have to think carefully about how to approach this. (We have been emailed so he doesn’t know we have seen it yet).

Well done to all the people firming! It must be a big relief.

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OrangeCinnamonCroissant · 29/03/2022 17:32

I don't think Dd will get a Prom. She is at a College they don't seem to be doing much social stuff.

I'll be back later to explain but it's my turn to be at the end of my tether this week. Words like rude, selfish, arrogant and entitled are coming to mind. I'm disappointed and upset tbh AngrySad

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are they like this ???

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OrangeCinnamonCroissant · 29/03/2022 17:32

PS loving the button

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singingstones · 29/03/2022 17:45

Hang on in there, Orange Thanks

Monkey2001 · 29/03/2022 17:54

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are they like this ???

Hormones and security that we will love them anyway!

KingscoteStaff · 29/03/2022 18:37

We have finally heard from Barts, so that's all the offers in, thank heavens. Bristol offer holders' day was lovely last week, so just waiting to see Newcastle next week before she firms.

She's talking about renting a dress for her Prom - surely that just guarantees a red wine spill?

ProggyMat · 29/03/2022 19:14

Yay to all the button pushers!
@Heifer fab visual! Star
Congratulations to all that have have received recent offers.
I’m sending positive vibes for those still waiting for the ‘notoriously late ones’.
No news of a prom from us as yet. So, it looks like the post GCSE gown won’t get trotted out until Uni! Grin
In other news, DD has received notification of her SFE ‘award’ for 2022 entrance and has booked a an 18-30 holiday with her mates to a Greek island…

Alsoplayspiccolo · 29/03/2022 19:28

Orange, you have my full sympathies. All those words have come into my mind repeatedly recently. DD was so impossible on Sunday (Mother'sDay...The irony) that I stormed out, took the car to a quiet spot, and sat for 2 hours, reading the paper and doing the puzzles in it. She has been marginally better since, but still awful.

Well done for pushing the button, Crazy.

Decorhate · 29/03/2022 19:36

@KingscoteStaff Really well done to your Dd! Where do you think she will firm? Dd is doing her F1 year at Barts, she’s getting very good experience

PaddingtonPaddington · 29/03/2022 20:05

Lots of covid at school here too. Years 7-10 & 12 rotating a day at home until end of term as many teachers off. I think free testing ends on Friday so not sure what that means when the LFTs run out.

Mock results for DD today BCE (the E was the exam she cried through so not unexpected). DD seems ok about it though so that’s a positive. As she’s the only student in her year left in the class I’m hopeful that the one to one learning with the teacher will get her exam essay technique improved.

Loving the button pic and so many in the thread have decided. Hang in there those still waiting as the deadline is still a while away.

No news on prom here either for DD

22Newnames · 29/03/2022 21:34

If it helps on the entitlement, I was so enraged yesterday that I told DS to f off and cook himself something else then when he said I had offered two things and they were both shit. I think it's the second time I've told him to f off in history (and yes I did use the whole word). We both calmed down and talked it through later but it was a very heated moment at the time. I have been ill for over a week and he was complaining about the dinner choices that I was cooking. Perhaps either of the DSs could have considered looking after their ill parents but nope of course not.

Monkey2001 · 29/03/2022 22:02

Well done @KingscoteStaff - are you avoiding telling the medicine thread because of survivor's guilt amongst the tidal wave of rejections!!! She must be extremely impressive in interviews to have got 4 offers this year!

Fonty · 29/03/2022 22:07

Sorry to hear that orange & hope things settle down.

I’m with you @22Newnames & Also We changed our Mother’s Day evening restaurant booking to just DH & I, as DD was at her boyfriends (she had asked for a 7pm sitting, which wasn’t particularly ideal for me, but then asked if I’d mind if she didn’t come) & DS said there was no way he was missing the Saudi Grand Prix….. I swear next year I’m booking a spa day for myself 😄

Don’t even get me started on meals at home. They both think our kitchen is some high end restaurant with an actual menu you can choose from every night, even though I work full time!!

EwwSprouts · 29/03/2022 22:12

@Oblomov22 & @KingscoteStaff Congratulations on offers!
Good luck to those still waiting for stragglers.

I hope those who are unwell recover soon. Lots of covid here too. Anecdotally a blinding headache that paracetamol doesn't touch is a common symptom this round.

DS thinks there's a prom being organised by 'the girls' but claims to know no details.

@OrangeCinnamonCroissant It's hard as they push for independence without a second thought for anyone else. You have my sympathy. DS and I have had a few such words over the last few months.

icanbewhatiwant · 29/03/2022 22:29

Sorry to hear there still seems so much covid about. We don't hear much about it from school. I think it must've passed through us at some point without us noticing. Ds's friend had it recently, he was the only one in ds's friend group apart from him to have not had it at least once.

I made a fuss that the dc's hadn't got me anything for my birthday (big birthday) Ds2 didn't even get a card. So they got me Mother's Day gifts. Well...not Ds1 at university. The 2 at home did...Ds2 bought me a Lego bonsai tree. I don't know if I'll ever be bothered to build it, no...I will build it.

Glad to hear everyone is pushing buttons.

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OrangeCinnamonCroissant · 29/03/2022 22:47

Thanks all Dd just being particularly defensive and nasty at moment. She is also posting lots of attention seeking stuff on social media and seems to have lost her perspective. Everything is a trauma or disservice to her. Considering our backgrounds and how we have given her every opportunity we could , that we didn't have, DH and I can't understand it. DH is royally peed off at the moment which is rare.

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Monkey2001 · 29/03/2022 23:19

@icanbewhatiwant I think your DS2 is heading for a career as a stand up comedian! Love the Lego bonsai tree!!!

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