Thread 47- Covid GCSE Cohort - Summer's running away from us!

[OrangeCinnamonLatte]

...it will be Christmas before we know it.

This is a support thread for our young adults post GCSEs 2020, regardless of their educational setting, and their results ( or life updates for those who went into work or have had results earlier). 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, uni vs employment please don't within this thread.

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. We were previously on the secondary board and then further education, now we shall be here in 'Parents of Adult Children' gulp

Our DS/DD may continue down various pathways ( employment, apprenticeships, higher ed). Experience is that everyone is welcomed wherever, whatever their child is doing we have some in work, gap years , apprenticeships etc too. Lots of contributors with different experiences and always sympathy and advice to be had.
Previous thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/parents_of_adult_children/4792342-thread-46-gcse-covid-cohort-searching-for-summer-solstice

Thanks for the thread

Thanks for the new thread. Much relief here as dd had the email to say she’s passed her first year today. We thought she had, but it’s nice to see it in writing!

Evening! Thanks for the new thread.

@cariadambyth Great news.

DD is due her results next month, hoping to study maths, pure maths, physics and chemistry at 6th form.

Thanks for the new thread @OrangeCinnamonLatte.

Ooooh, shiny and new!

Thank you Orange!

Hope you DH gets speedy treatment ican

Thanks for the new thread @OrangeCinnamonLatte

I love this thread. Thanks orange

Thank you for the new thread! Hello again everyone!

Thanks for the new thread @OrangeCinnamonLatte

Thanks @OrangeCinnamonLatte

I have been meaning to resurrect the list if people would like that, but away on hols at the moment so don't have the info to hand!

@Anaemiafog you are welcome here as is everyone but just fyi most of the chat on this thread is about our DC who took, or rather didn't take their GCSEs in 2020, so currently aged 19 or thereabouts. This thread might be what you're looking for:

GCSE Support - nervously waiting www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/4838416-gcse-support-nervously-waiting

Thank you for the new thread. A lot has been going on for me in the last week with regards to my older dd, its sort of resolved now but it was a tough few days.

Ds is moving out of halls today. He is home for one night before off down to London for NYMT then he is staying with his grandparents for a week because they have a big house with lots of spare bedrooms for his friends/bandmates to also stop and a garage to practice in for a festival gig the following weekend.

Then he's off to a seaside town for a week where he has got a week's work playing for a theatre show!

So not really coming home just yet!

Thanks for the new thread! @Comefromaway that sounds like a busy few weeks! I have a feeling your ds is going to make it in the music industry - if he gets famous, please tell us! 🤣

Dd is back from Croatia on Sunday and I think she’s around for about 3 weeks. Hopefully to get some shifts in and recoup some money 🤞

I actually think he will crazy.

He says a lot of his coursemates are very focused on trying to just be in a band, getting record deals and making it big which, lets face it, is very rare.

He loves gigging with his band, they are such good friends but he most definitely sees that as extra curricular fun/friendship. He says you have to be versatile to earn a living. Very few people make a living being in an originals band but you can make a good living from doing covers in a function band, playing for theatre shows both amateur and professional and doing behind the scenes stuff like making tracks and programming sounds.

So I very, very much doubt he will ever be famous. But I do think he can earn a living through music.

Thanks for the new thread and I must share DS1 just passed his driving test! I don't know how the text changed into bold.

After so many lessons in dribs and drabs, cancelled lessons, he's had 2 Theory test certificates expire due to being unable to get lessons, loads of disappointments from instructors and cancelled test dates, he's finally done it.

Bloody brilliant news Shimy 👍

@Shimy Great news & perseverance!

@Comefromaway What an insightful young man your DS is.

Well done @Shimy ds! It’s such a relief isn’t it! We also spent hundreds/maybe over a thousand on lessons 😮

Well done Shimy's ds

Yay, well done @Shimy DS!

Well done @Shimy DS!

Ooh, I have one of those too. DS is August born so still 18 but didn't sit GCSEs. He has a wonderful engineering apprenticeship that he loves. DS and DD are very different people.

@singingstones Thank you for the link to the just-done-GCSE cohort thread, which I had lost!

Welcome Anaemiafog!