Year 13 -2025/26 - Support, discussion and looking after each other (new thread from y12)

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Hello
I have started a new thread following on from this one
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/further_education/5340007-year-12-202425-support-discussion-and-looking-after-each-other-thread-2?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

@Ventress wishing you all the very best for your treatment💐

Thanks all for well wishes. DS is determined to get on one of these apprenticeships and to be fair he’s putting in the effort to try and secure one.

Thanks for the good luck messages for DD. Her first choice is Rose Bruford to study scenic arts.( Set and prop making).

And the UCAS application is in!! Now just have to wait for school to review and add in their bits. Hopefully they don't ask him to change too much..

Good stuff @JustHereWithMyPopcorn - hope there isn’t too long to wait.

DD is very pleased this afternoon as she has her first offer (Edinburgh) having applied last Friday. A nice start to the week!

Thanks @JessyCarr and well done to your DD, that's amazingly fast! It's such a relief to get that first offer, I remember it with DS1 four years ago, he was so excited as it was his first choice uni and I was just relieved! 😂

Well done to your DD @JessyCarr ! how lovely to get the first offer.

Well done to your DD @JessyCarr!

Great news @JessyCarr and well done to your DS @JustHereWithMyPopcorn for getting his application done. Hopefully his school will be quick getting their part done then the exciting bit begins!

Well done to your Dd, @JessyCarr Edinburgh is lovely!

Congratulations @JessyCarr to your DD, what a great first offer!

Edinburgh is a great place @JessyCarr, well done to your DD.

Is a drop in test scores normal in the beginning of year 13? The last two biology tests dd got B and C when shes predicted an A and got As all year in y12. Shes most definitely not revising as much, and these two tests were basically cramming in the two nights before. Is this a common phase? She seems to have improved after HT and her other two are fine

@JessyCarrcongratulations to your DD on the Edinburgh offer.

@PinkChaireswe are finding similar and I have had to remind DS a couple of times recently that it’s all well and good having great predicted grades but he does now need to put the work in and try and achieve them - seems like he was resting on his laurels a bit after a really strong Y12. Hoping that upcoming mocks will give him a reality check.

@JessyCarr Congratulations on the first offer :) They seem so excited about it, even though few more in waiting.

Well done to those who have offers already. My DD has offers from Nottingham and Southampton so far. She was feeling pretty positive about Nottingham but is now concerned that the closing of the music department there will mean far fewer opportunities for extra-curricular music, which is a big part of her life.

@PinkChaires ds has had a couple of geography tests last week and told me yesterday he now had no work to do for the rest of the term.
I was eh, yes, apart from mocks revision and actual A levels revision!

DS has just come home with revised predicted grades of ABB, so his rather pleased with himself!
That makes offers from Newcastle and Sheffield unis more likely, instead of "only" (his words) Northumbria and Leeds Beckett.

Fantastic @gingercat02! Well done him. Hope his favourites come through with those offers.

It’s same here as well.. It used to be “I need to do this and that” now it’s more relaxed, I say this is not how you prepare for Early applications. She was the one decided to go with it and spent whole summer sitting in her room, I guess ESAT result looming is a bit terrifying :( Next few days will be fun
We have mocks only in Feb. So not sure what we would do for Christmas holidays!!

Well done on those offers @Raindropsandposies and @gingercat02and fantastic revised predicted grades too!

Great news on those predicted grades @gingercat02, well done to your DS.

@Raindropsandposies congratulations to your DD on the offers. It’s very sad news about Nottingham. Unfortunately so many unis are in trouble at the moment, I was reading about the planned job losses at Lancaster the other day.

Here, DS has received his second offer, from Bristol for politics and IR, after having been ‘put on hold’ for a few weeks. He is also making the last few changes to his history NEA. He is pretty tired, it feels like the last few months have been quite a marathon, and it’s only just beginning.

That’s great news about Bristol, @ComingInByAnsible. Manchester has come through with an offer here this evening.

Thinking of all those waiting for test results and interview news.

Congratulations to your Dc on their Bristol and Manchester offers @ComingInByAnsibleand @JessyCarr!

DS has sent off his additional work as requested by the Oxford college he applied to. He is revising daily for mocks in January. He was even revising on Tuesday which was his 18th. I can’t fault his commitment 😊

It’s great to see so many offers coming in. Do your dc feel a bit more relaxed knowing that, as DS said ‘someone wants me!’?

Good news yesterday - DS can stop wearing his wist splint and get back to his driving practice. Think we’re going to head to a quiet car park later just to dust off the cobwebs!

TMUA results tomorrow- ds’s not mentioned it this week so neither have I. I think he’s most anxious to hear whether or not Oxford would like to interview him. That’s going to be a couple more weeks of waiting though.