Is your new sixthformer exhausted? Mine is!

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Dd's started new sixth form this week, and she's so exhausted she can barely move, never mind study.. :( It's a new environment, new teachers, new classmates and new work and she's finding it really hard. Yes it's early days, hopefully she'll get back into a work routine soon and be able to function a bit better. she's had no homework set yet, and i think she should be doing some background reading, but tbh I dont think I can suggest that because her eyes are closing as i'm talking to her! If I could force her to go to bed at 8pm I would, I think it would work wonders for her, but she wont.

Yes, DS1 started at sixth form college last week and is exhausted. A combination of the new routines and increased expectations and also the shock of having to get up early after a summer of lie-ins.

Don't have a sixthformer (yet) but the one who has just started Y10 is shattered.

Several friends have children just started and they are all knackered.

Yes exhausted and foul 16 year old here too.

Yes, so is mine!
I think is the change they are going through.
Let's hope that in a week or so they will all be better.

We had parents information evening and the pace of work they described to us scared me too!
Our 6th for is going to have first pre mock assessment mid December!

A bit, but she had a very lazy holiday so it's a shock getting up for the school bus again.

She had biology last night and art over the holidays (yes the Art teacher gave out HW on results day.) Not that DD minds she's never not playing with art ideas in her head.

Yes, same here. Luckily his timetable has one full day of frees so he had yesterday to catch up. A weekend full of homework now, me thinks.

Yes 16 yo DD just started sixth form at the same school she's been to since year 7. School is only 5 minutes walk away, just she comes homes and sleeps all evening.

In contrast DD2 has just started at the rival school God help me in year 7. Its a bloody long walk each way and is doing sport 3 days a week after school and is still full of beans

My year 10 is shattered. Shes already getting behind in homework despite spending a good couple of hours or more each night. Dread to think what the next few years are going to be like.

OMBBK it will get better and then worse again as Y11 goes on.

How much worse depends on your DDs temperament, wether she wants A*s and wether she does practical subjects.

DD1 wasn't chasing A*s (she got the A's she wanted in Maths and Science), but she did music, Art and Drama. They started causing stress straight after Christmas and just didn't go away.

Yup. She's out of the house for 11 hours a day, is suddenly ravenous and is in bed before 9.30 !

Dd is aiming for a* and her teachers are putting a lot of pressure on her. Doing music which we were a little unsure about. Homework for that so far is to practice a single piece for 20mins every day ready to perform in a couple of weeks. It's hard enough for her to find time/motivation to do that for her grade exams.
I'm hoping it will settle like it did part way through year 7.

I'd say mine is delirious with excitement, actually.

I'm waiting for the reality (and the crash) to set in. He's doing music and drama like Elephant's dd, so probably any day now?

Mine is tired. Yesterday she had free periods but it turns out they have to do work experience, volunteering or projects in that time. She already does loads of extra curricular stuff and I think it's overkill...

Another one with an exhausted 16 year old who's moved from a local school to sixth form. We've pretty much had tears every night and she hates half her subjects and is overawed with the size of the place.

She's also gone from getting up and a ten minute walk to school, to a ten minute walk to the train station, forty minute train journey, five minute walk to bus station then a ten minute bus ride to college. I did the same at her age and remember how hard I found it. Hoping they all adjust soon

Yep over here, too
DD back at school 6th form, but she got herself a weekend job in Primark during the summer. It's only 8 hours a week, but I am not sure if she can keep up the momentum. Also, after just a week in subject groups, teachers have now decided to move everyone around because they fucked up and DD descended into tears so I think yes....she is exhausted

DS has just started sixth form college and is knackered too. And absolutely snowed under with homework! He has to leave the house at 7.30 for the bus and isn't back til 5; he's just arrived and informed me he can't even spare ten minutes to check his emails as he has to get on and work. He's doing 3 sciences and double maths and having done really well in GCSEs is now having a crisis of confidence because he got a C in a physics test yesterday!

I've been telling him he needs to sort out some more extra curricular stuff for his personal statement next year but frankly I'm not sure when he's going to fit it in.

My DD is always tired unless she sleeps in till 1pm.

Dd has just started Y13 (and I hate to say it!) but when she started Y12 she was completely exhausted until Christmas! It got better after that but she was just saying this week that she feels a bit like she did when she started sixth form but minus the stress as she feels like she knows what he is doing now.

dodo - do you mean she is tired unless she has 15 hours of sleep at a stretch? I'm assuming here that she is asleep by 10pm.

More extracurriculars, Morvah? How I wish DS would realise that the world is not just one long extracurricular activity...

Apparently last night's constant guitar playing was 'practising for the next AS music lesson'. For which he plays tuba. Humph.

kitties I'd love DS to play the tuba even sporadically! Trouble is I don't think grade 2 clarinet is going to impress much and he is very unsporty so we can't put down any triumphs in the sporting arena either.

It's interesting, isn't it, how seemingly unrelated activities appear to be a part of the A level course. Did you know that watching youtube videos about vintage cars is apparently essential for physics? Me neither . . . .

Sounds like he'd get on a treat with Other DS. Last year, playing Kerbal Space games was genuinely the subject of Other DS's A-level physics project. He was comparing it with real-life space flight, apparently.

Took a lot of research, that did. Till all hours.

Exhausted 16yo here too. The work is 'hard' and other than that it is going 'OK'.