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?

Losing speaking and listening and doing two language CAs right at the beginning of Y10 are likely to combine to give my DD1 a C in English Lang. she will not be pleased. A few universities general entrance requirements are a B, regardless of course. One local sixth form wants a B too.

DS1 needs a B in one of the English GCSEs to get his place in his chosen 6th form. He was disgusted that the S & L element was excluded after he'd done fairly well it, an A. He's hoping for a B in Eng Lan and Lit but he did find his Lit poetry exam hard.

I'm proud of him in any case. He may just scrape an A in Eng Lan, this from a natural scientist and mathematician who had a speech delay, has a DB with ASD and really struggled with English in primary school. Crossing everything.

todayisnottheday best of luck for your DD. It must have been unimaginably difficult for you all.

After a GP criticised the decision of a psychiatrist during a routine medication review, my DS took himself off his ADHD medication during Year 11 and it now appears he has bombed his science IGCSEs. I am a nervous wreck waiting for the GCSE results. He has finally, finally appreciated why he was put on the medication in the first place, and gone back onto it so he can complete the summer holiday work he was set, in case he does actually get into a sixth form somewhere. The standard of the summer holiday work he has done since going back onto the stuff is outstanding. But god knows what happens next if he has utterly crap GCSEs. I hate that busybody, big headed GP and I wish we had never listened to him.

Sorry for you and your DS too BM. But there's always the access route, as (given your username :)) I'm sure you well know. I get the impression that the best schools and universities are very willing to listen and accommodate students with genuinely bad situations.

Is it not Thursday yet?!

Thank you. Although being an educationalist it is always a bit professionally embarrassing when your children cause ripples on the education water, so to speak. His sister had massive form in this regard.

In his defence, however, if there is ever a zombie apocalypse, he is the person to be standing near at all times. His ADHD radar make him the most observant, quick reacting person I know. I told him this week he was a top class stone age hunter in the wrong period of history. I mean that.

One amusing thing to do is to creep up virtually silently behind him, and then watch him practically run in the air like a cartoon figure, whilst looking for a weapon with which to potentially defend himself. It's naughty of me, but it is highly amusing.

Do we know if January resist still exist, by the way? I should probably know this, but with all the Gove changes I confess I have completely lost track of how the examination system now works (apart from the module to linear shift).

I believe Nov and Jan resits still happen, bu they are reserved for resits rather than early entries. I think...

Please hold my hand. Just had my first cross words with DD1 as the tension builds.

I suppose it's too late now, but I am frustrated with her that she is expecting poor grades to avoid disappointment. My worry is that she has had this attitude since Year 10 and has aimed too low.

She should get into college, no problem, but her course choice might be limited by her grades. With no long term career plan, this doesn't bother her either.

It's going to be a long 43 hours!

For English and maths there is an resit in November, the 4th for English if I remember correctly.

Next January there are no GCSE exams just functional skills and iGCSE in English.

DD1 has just got invited to sleepover at BFF's.

Given how stressed she was over AS level results, I'm not sure this is a brilliant idea.

I am not sure whether is is worse for a child to be wracked with nerves over collecting their GCSE results, or so unconcerned that they have forgotten all about the whole thing.

I find my son's lack of concern vastly exasperating - especially since I am aware that it is entirely possible that he WON'T get the grades he needs...

Last year one pupil arrived at our school at 3.30, I was the only member of staff still there, with his frantic mother who had spent the whole day phoning him from work to try and find out how he had done. She eventually left early in a panic only to find him asleep in bed! He had been 'too tired' to get his results! The exams office was locked up and the boy didn't seem to mind, his mother was nearly crying. Fortunately I had the spreadsheet with grades so was able to help and he had done well, which was lucky because his mother was looking murderous.

This would be my son, Agggghast.

I asked him yesterday if he was worried about Thursday. He genuinely had no idea what I was talking about.

I think DS1 is just worried enough. Not so much he is having trouble sleeping, but it's certainly been on his mind a lot this week. The 'ice bucket challenge' seems to have relaxed him a bit today.

He had been 'too tired' to get his results!
I love these DC!

My son is one of those who " will probably not open his results straightaway" arrgh! why not?

sausagedog12 (love that name! how come there were SD 1-11???)
Is a boy thing? My own boy was very casual about the iGSCE and AS results he got last week, tho' I do suspect there was a bit of studied casualness - a bubble we do not want to burst as their self-esteem very fragile at this age...

I am so stressed I can't cook. I am taking the kids to the supermarket cafe for dinner. Is that bad?

No we've just done a KFC. That's worse!

That sounds like an eminently sensible idea. And Dominos or curry for tomorrow night.

In fact takeaway all week............need time to recover before domestic duties resume

Not a boy thing CatherineofMumbles I was the same, kept them in my pocket for days. Didn't want to know what I got. Everyone around me was talking non stop about how so and so did and what so and so was going to do and I didn't want to be part of it so when they asked me I just said I didn't know.

I hate it when people ask outright how a dc got on, some dc would just rather not say, if they want to volunteer the information then so be it but there is this massive pressure on them these days to proclaim to the world how they got on.

ds very calm here not mentioning them at all - off to the footie this evening and I'm much more what will be will be than I was while he was actually taking them