GCSE coursework problem

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Has anyone had experience of this? My DD had a rehearsal for a school show and the school let her and a few others miss their final coursework session for a GCSE to go to it, saying they would have to do it later. (We never knew this). The teacher later asked them to come to her to arrange when they would do it. My DD, being v shy, turned up, saw the teacher was busy with someone else and left. Never went back! Unfortunately, she only told me about this last week, saying she needed to go to see the teacher to arrange to do it, seemingly unaware that the deadline had passed. We ended up ringing the school and they say the work has all been marked and submitted so it was too late and she had lost marks. Such a shame as it's a subject she wants to take at A-level and maybe uni. I feel exasperated with my dd but also cross with the school for a) allowing them to miss this important session and b) not telling parents that this work needed to be done. Had we known, we would have pushed our dd to go or contacted the school to make sure it was done.
Has anyone got any advice?

Speak to school, to the head of year to see what can be done. I'm surprised the school didn't chase your daughter for the course work - sounds like that should be raised with the school too.

I'd be annoyed as well. Does your DD remember how much more was to be done?

Also, how many controlled assessments were done in that subject? Sometimes Dc do more than they need and the best ones are submitted, in which case this one might not matter as much.

Is your DD staying onto sixth form at the school? If so, hopefully they will allow her to take the subject even if she gets a lower grade. If not, perhaps they could explain to where ever she is going?

Most unis will not mind about a lower GCSE mark if the AS level is good and she has a good A2 prediction.

I would be seething with them both. What were the school thinking in allowing them to miss vital lessons to rehearse for a show? I can sort of understand why your DD didn't pester the teacher, DS1 missed a science ISA because he broke his shoulder playing rugby for the school one evening, and it was planned for the next day, he wouldn't pester the teacher either, although he did ask a few times. I ended up asking about it myself at parents' evening, just as well really, because the teacher had forgotten he hadn't done it.

She has missed the deadline unfortunately. Does she know how much she had done before that lesson? It is such a shame this situation has been allowed to arise. I hope she gets good enough marks to study the subject in the 6th form.

Thanks very much everyone for all the replies and advice. They're all v helpful. Apologies for long reply!
Copperwheat - I will speak to the school tomorrow to see if anything else can be done. The teacher we spoke to the other day did not suggest anything could be, but I will pursue it. My dh wants to write to the exam board.

Cream teas - this is the second controlled assessment in this subject but I am not sure if both are submitted - I will ask. It's geog. She did well in the first one. Good thought about the school explaining if she does move for 6th form. In all likellihood she will stay where she is. There is one school she has applied to but is on the waiting list for and getting a place will be dependent on her grades. She's not sure how much she still had left to do on the CA .....hmm
Schmaltzing matilda - thanks. Hopefully you are right that the work was good enough. I suspect you are right too about what the school feel about the chasing of students, but i think the system was not consistent as in another subject the teacher did chase dd but also wrote to us to remind her to finish something off.

landofsoapandglory - Yes, I am cross, with her as it's silly to throw marks away when she is working so hard at revision etc and at the school for not apparently doing more, though the teacher said the pupils were aware of the deadline. I hope and think the schiool will be ok about her studying subject at A-level.

If the CA marks are with the board there isn't anything to be done.
However, I would be very surprised if the school hadn't chased it - results are not just important to students. At our school those with incomplete/missing CAs would be chased repeatedly. It is vanishingly rare that any submit incomplete work. Perhaps it did seem finished even though she technically could have spent more time on it - this happens sometimes - so the teacher thought your DD didn't want the extra time as she didn't ask for it. Why didn't she just ask in a lesson if she didn't want to disturb the teacher at another time?

Hi Cardibach, thanks for the info. I was wondering if there was any thing to be done from this point, it looks like not but i will check with the school anyway. Yes, hopefully the work did look ok for submission, though the teacher told my dh that she had lost marks on it. I think she didn't raise it with the teacher in class because she is unfortunately extremely shy, or else maybe she was just blocking it all out pretending it would go away!