Thread 51 - Covid GCSE Cohort - Summer 24 - End of Uni Yr 2

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2024 Summer, end of year 2 for those at Uni.

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.

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Ds got into Loughborough with 3A's
I'm so proud of him after missing a term of school due to severe depression/ADHD. Most kids like that get lost in the system & never return to school. That was looking like a very strong possibility at one stage after he relinquished his place & we had no other school for him to go to. So so relieved and a bit numb 😂😭

Thank you everyone! She is quietly very pleased.
next stop - Peru and Bolivia on 15 Sept until Christmas!

(Getting her rabies shots in advance unlike her brother 🤣🤣)

@cantonet that is AMAZING. Well done him - and you! I couldn’t be more delighted if it was my own kid!

Congrats to @Cantonet and @Delphigirl DCs what a relief for both of them!

good luck to anyone else waiting for results.

Many congratulations to @Delphigirl's DD👏🏼 Sounds like it's going to be a fabulous gap year.

Yay, so pleased for you both @Delphigirl and @Cantonet

DD has got hers, she didn't have target grades as such with not applying to uni (and may well not apply for next year either) but she's happy with them. She got A in History and D in biology but did think she could have failed biology completely so she'll take that, it was the wrong choice.

I really hopes he celebrates well today (and you) Cantonet, big congratulations to your boy!

👏👏 ED, well done to her!

Oh well done @EasilyDefined ! I’m sure with those results she will have lots of options open to her if she wants them.

Congratulations to your DD @EasilyDefined 👏🏼 I'm so glad she passed Biology and the A for History is brilliant news 👏🏼

Thanks all, she's on track for an A in Eng Lit next year so I think we will very happily get rid of the biology text books, get on with her ADHD assessment and move forward from there. She hasn't got a clue what she wants to do career wise yet so one step at a time.

Fantastic results @Delphigirl @Cantonet @EasilyDefined. Congratulations 👏 👏 👏

@Cantonet fabulous news!
@EasilyDefined those a great results - good luck to your DD for the next steps

Congratulations to your DD @EasilyDefined

Well done to your dc @EasilyDefined @Cantonet @Delphigirl !

Ds got BBC. He was hoping for BBB and is only 4 marks off a B in Sociology so we’ve requested a review. However, given he barely got through 75% of any paper, due to running out of time, and his attendance was probably 20% in year 13 and he’d never done any practice papers (apart from AS Levels and mocks which were done with no revision so fairly pointless) we’re pretty happy! And it gives him options in terms of apprenticeships.

He has done really well @crazycrofter given what he has been through, he’s obviously a clever boy. Well done to him!

Fab news @Delphigirl ! Congrats

@crazycrofter your ds pretty much taught himself so those are absolutely stellar grades considering 🎉 👏🏼

Crazy, that’s amazing for the self teach position he was in, you know he has innate abilities in spite of his other challenges…well done to him and fingers crossed on the remark 🤞

Congratulations to @EasilyDefined @Cantonet @Delphigirl and @crazycrofter!

Particularly amazing for @Cantonet for your DS to have done so well despite his challenges. As another mother of a depressed (ex-) student I get how very delighted you must be.

@273NewNamesagain good to hear from you, how is your lad doing?

@AnneOfCleavage good to hear your update too.

You must be so pleased @Cantonet , you’ve had so much on your plate with your kids, and you’ve supported them amazingly!. How is the ds who had a gap from uni getting on now?

I’m pleased with ds’ results, especially as his best mate, who worked hard, went to every lesson and was predicted much higher got BCD 😢

Well done @Cantonet and @crazycrofter!

@crazycrofter thanks for asking. He's getting there very slowly. The day we brought his stuff back from uni, the cat got run over then about two weeks after coming home from uni, his gf of two years, who he had spent 5-6 nights a week with for 2 years finished it. He was absolutely devastated and the timing was awful as he was already in a bad way.

He's been having counselling and is still working in the temporary 3-6mth job effectively doing factory assembly work in an engineering firm. They have said he has work until October which takes pressure off for now. He is beginning to think about other options for the future as he knows he does not want to do that sort of stuff for ever, but he can't bring himself to do any actual research or look into things properly yet. He is thinking about an apprenticeship but recognises he needs to stay at home for the next few years so I'm not sure what will happen. My fear is that the temporary job suddenly stops and he has nothing else and ends up spiralling again.

At the moment his friends are all home for the summer and I worry about how he will cope when they go back to their various places. That said, he has a car, has some money and is planning trips to see them but I think it will hit harder than he realises.

But for now, he's fairly stable and I think distinctly in a better place than a few months ago even if it's still not a great place. He's very much in a period of licking his wounds and consolidation but is getting better bit by bit.

Sorry that was longer than intended!

It's all relative 273, being in a better place right now is infinitely better than months ago, just keep going that way, he's already coped so well and is getting support from external and family. Keep going.

Anne, good to hear you too. I am in and out of this thread as lots to deal with on the elder folk in our lives that are too depressing to write about, but reading everyone's updates is always up-lfting, even if things in life are not linear. And I am making the most of having DD around as there is more of a lightness about her now in these final weeks of being at home.