Thread 30 Covid Cohort, Mad March Hareing Towards Exams

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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

@singingstones gosh you have a lot going on. I’m just about holding it together with my job and 2 DS studying. It’s tough times I think. I may be an alcoholic by the end of June.

@singingstones sending strength. Looks like a lot of our DCs might end up at Broadgate!

Oh goodness singing, you have an awful lot on your shoulders. Have you got any leave over Easter at all? Hope tomorrow goes well, but a nice large glass of🍷 tonight is a start.

All the best for the appointment tomorrow @singingstones and the exam. Don’t worry about Broadgate - my friend’s daughter was there and really enjoyed it.

Poor you Singing. Hope you enjoy that bath 🛀 and wine 🍷.

We are all packed. Hope they don't cancel our flight ✈️ to Majorca tomorrow.

Oh Singing, your post made my head spin. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

oh @singingstones enjoy your bath and relax . Sounds hectic !

Oh @singingstones, you have so much going on, I will be thinking of you tomorrow.

@singingstones - enjoy the wine and hopefully nice long warm bath and relax. Good luck for your appt tomorrow.

@Oblomov22 fingers crossed for your flight tomorrow - can't deny I'm jealous at the thought of some sun and a holiday generally :-) Hope you have a lovely time.

Fingers crossed you avoid any airport chaos Oblomov! Enjoy.

Wow you have a very full plate @singingstones. Will be thinking of you at the re-call appointment.

DD had her A level dance practical exams today so that's done and dusted. One of her dancers had Covid two weeks ago and was struggling with her breathing at the end poor love. DD also performed her dances in the school spring concert tonight and is now on the sofa exhausted and coughing from the exertion.

School finishes on Friday and it can't come soon enough.

@singingstones Hope the unwinding is very relaxing. Fingers crossed for the morning.

@Oblomov22 Envious of your holiday.

@AnneOfCleavage Must be a relief for your DD to have that out of the way. There's a poignancy to these first 'lasts' they are now going through.

@singingstones - hope the appointment goes well and that the bath and wine allowed you a bit of space yesterday.

Been off line moving MIL (@Fonty you were absolutely right!). Congratulations to Nottingham people on progress, so funny that summer of the threads DCs are likely to meet, may even be flatmates!

@singingstones best wishes for today, let us know how it goes. X

Congrats to everyone’s DC who have pushed the button - DS still hasn’t. Apparently he wants to speak to his tutor first so it will have to wait until next term.

Today is exactly one month to DS’s first exam (gulp). I dashed out yesterday to stock up on multivitamins and hay fever tablets. When I asked the pharmacist about whether to buy a supplement which “guaranteed to boost brain functionality” the reply was that he hoped we weren’t relying on pharmaceutical interventions alone and perhaps just focus on revision. Good advice I suppose.

Even though DS will be finished on 18 May DD’s GCSEs go on forever so I will be in the group of us on this thread with double stress over the next few months. Sigh.

Thinking of you today @singingstones. Hope all goes ok.

We are off to the Nottingham offer holder day today. At the moment it could be the insurance choice but who knows if that will change after the visit.

Obvs still waiting on Bath 🙄

@Horace123 your ds will be finished by mid May?!

Thinking of you @singingstones. Are you going to your appointment on your own or are you allowed to take someone with you? Actually, even if you are technically on your own, you’re not really because you have all of us alongside you x

Good luck 22NewNames at Nottingham.
We arrived Gatwick super early and was through security in about 20 minutes!

@NCTDN Yes! But he is doing IB, not A levels (sorry if that panicked you!). Results come out beginning of July so hopefully we'll have a lovely summer just stressing about the GCSE results for DD.

Ah I see!

I have looked at ds's exam dates. Apart from 2 they are fairly spread out, 26th May. Then June 9th, 10th, 14th, 28th. So it's only 9th and 10th that are together a philosophy of religion paper and history.

@Oblomov22

Good luck 22NewNames at Nottingham. We arrived Gatwick super early and was through security in about 20 minutes!

Great always love it when that happens! Have fun in Majorca

Have a fab holiday Oblomov. Glad Gatwick is working as from the news Heathrow is a mess.

Congrats to all the Nottingham kids that have firmed, and sorted accommodation. Dreading doing it all!

@singingstones - thinking of you.

Hope you’re doing ok, singing. That all sounds very stressful.

Have a fabulous holiday, Oblomov.

Hope the move went ok,Monkey.
I’ve sent you a DM about private tutors - hope that’s ok.

DD had her drama performance exam on Monday. She is the first person in her school to take the set design option, designing sets for 2 works. She was really happy with the response she had - lots of students and staff telling her it was fantastic, which has given her a boost.
We were able to watch a recording of the performances online and I have to say, they were outstanding; not that I have any sense of exam criteria, but purely from an audience POV.

Last night was the last school orchestral and choir concert. DS was playing in various ensembles and singing in the choir, and I ended up sobbing in one of the choir pieces, as it was so beautiful - he’s been so happy at the school and it’s been a really special place to be a part of.