Is there a hand holding thread for Y11 parents and GCSE results yet?

[fatowl]

DD is waiting on GCSE results next Thursday.

She is bouncing around being a teen on Summer holidays (she is off in Ireland for a week with her friend's family)

I am beginning to feel a bit sick.

She is hoping to stay at school and do A-levels, but now the results are getting closer I'm a bit concerned we don't have a back up plan.

How are the rest of you doing?

DD has finally surfaced and says she feels sick with worry now. She is another one with high expectations of herself and I'm worried how she's going to be if she doesn't match these. Hour and a half to go now. The suspense is horrible.

Good luck to all of you and your DC's. My DS luckily got his results on line at 8 am this morning I'm so relieved the long wait is all over.

No she has to move, they dont have a sixth form. We're waiting for her first choice to phone for an interview. I hate the way its done over here, if she had been given a place depending on results it would be better.

DS has now woken up, and logged on himself (didn't tell him DH & I logged on 3 hrs ago!). Somehow before coming down to tell me, he had managed to communicate with various friends and has said that one of them has already said he is going for a re-mark in geog...
Thinking of those of you who are waiting to go in - you are heroes supporting your DC.
Maybe no consolation today, for those with disappointing results because of DC Y11 attitude issues, but met a boy recently on his gap year before Cambridge, who said he did badly in his gcses due to lack of work and immaturity - it gave him the kick he needed, and he worked phenomenally hard for AS to prove everyone wrong about him...
Good luck!

Have finally dragged DS out of his pit. Going to school in a bit; feeling v nervy today. Seems much longer than a week ago we went through this with DS1's A'levels. Oh well, at least we'll all be put out of our misery soonish.

Wow, glad that's over. Targets met, proud parents and happy young person. I may have cried, just a bit, sorry!

One upside of all this is that I have just done masses of overdue work on an academic paper as a distraction technique. Although I think I am about to have a heart attack, I am that stressed. A lot more stressed than DS.

BTW it's true about Cambridge and GCSEs. If you go nuts working hard in the sixth form, and start being a straight A students, they can make allowances for fucking up. In some universities they also allow for massive progression towards the end of the degree course, so if you are borderline but get lots of very high marks in your last year, this can offset faffing about in years 1 and 2 sometimes. Educators do try to be wise and human.

DS let me drive him tp school but insisted I wait in car

He has done well ( in his own words).

We are leaving in 15 minutes to drive to school. I am apparently not allowed to wait in car, I will have to do the Walk of Shame with him. Oh crap.

DD made us wait in the car and said she was opening it outside on her own. After 15 minutes we gave up and went to look for her she was standing chatting to her teacher .

DH burst into tears, he never cries.

Sitting here sweating in our holiday cottage waiting on an e-mail. No idea when it will come. I've read everything about the 'volatile' results and throwing up seems a realistic possibility atm. Dd1 seems calmish. I just want it over with..............

Leaving in ten minutes. DS is in a right old state. I will also be waiting in the car. Will be thinking of all other car loiterers!

Just off to school, dd just has 3 to pick up (yr10). I'm dreading the main lot next year.

Ds1 being dropped off at 10. I have said several times that he needs to text/phone me his results! He's spending the day with school friends.

Just about to leave here too. I'll be waiting in the car too.

Leaving in 20 minutes. Also taking DD's friend whose parents cannot get the day off. God, I hope they do well. I'm not sure I can cope with someone else's teenager if they don't get what they want. I've been instructed to wait in the car too.

Phew! That could possibly have been the longest, most anxious time I have ever spent in a car! B's and C's so DS has got what he needed for 6th form . See you this time next year for AS's .

Still waiting for ds to come home here.

Meanwhile, I will regale you with my dream last night. I dreamt you had to go in and get each result separately from each teacher, rather like parents' evenings. For some reason, I was getting my results too and ds disappeared off somewhere and I was left unsure which teachers had his (our) results. Anyway, I found the Maths teacher. Ds had an A or A* and I got a Level 5a! (I also have an 11 yo who went through SATs at the same time as his brother was doing his GCSEs - lol at the mix up of exams and grades in my dream!) In my dream, I was pleased with the Level 5a until I realised I was supposed to be achieving GCSEs not SATs.

Anyway...... still waiting for ds.....

6 A* ,A, 4Bs!!
Problem with

son gone in alone - i heard of a parent who made the kid come OUT to the car to open with her fgs

oh are we posting results

thats NOT cool on a thread like this

..one subject where it doesn't look as though coursework has been submitted!

OK I won't post results, except to say DD got what she wanted except for a C in English.

School are going to query as one WJEC higher tier mark looks very low on lots of people's results.

Phew - all good here. Dd has got all she needs for sixth form.

still waiting in the car. DS texted a few minutes ago to say they were being let in at half past.