bright year 9 struggling in school

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Dd is quite bright and well capable of a and b's but her Christmas test results are disgracefully all c and ds

She is already doing after school homework and study club but hasn't had the desired effect,

Her maths for exp went from 90's last year to 55 this year, she has no reason not to be getting A's in maths as I do maths grinds as a side line,

Any advice on how to get her to buckle down, really struggling with her as although behaviour is ok when she is not with us she is different child, caught shoplifting once etc,

She had traumatic exp few years back, diagnosed with ptsd, but psychologist recently very happy with her,

She wants to become a teacher so needs to really buckle down now to have a chance

The tests were on work that's covered so students and teachers can see how much of what they have been Taught has been retained,

I don't know the more I ask and find out the more confused I get!

I think you need to unclench a bit op. I feel anxious just reading your posts so god knows how your dd feels. I have a ver motivated did in Y10 and high seem to be very...erm...over invested

What kind of school is your daughter attending? Is it some kind of super-selective because otherwise I don't understand why they are recommending so much homework and revision and sending home such negative report cards. I am also surprised that everything is marked out of 100 as my experience of many exams (particularly where students are being examined on part of a syllabus) is that papers are marked out of all kinds of totals - 60 seems to be a favourite but we've had 40 and 90 as well.

I don't get all this business of grades being Cs and Ds and translating them to Irish levels, what is the point of that? They are different education systems with different marking schemes. If your daughter is studying GCSEs, you live in the UK and you actually tutor maths you really need to get with the programme here!

In my experience everything is measured in key stage grades eg 5b, 4a etc.

Until year 10 when GCSE grades suddenly appear.

No percentages here. Ever

Your DD sounds exhausted. Also I hope your reference to results being "disgracefully all c's and d's" was just for the benefit of mumsnet. I really hope you haven't communicated this to your daughter in this fashion.

Level of homework is OTT in my experience.

The school's approach is what I would be looking at.

In year 9 my DCs ( high performing grammar) hardly ever brought homework home. If they went to homework club, I certainly would not expect any homework to need to be done at home. I would be horrified at 2h per night any time other than in the run up to GCSEs or A levels.

Another mum with a year 9 DD here.
My DD attends a well regarded comp and has an average of around 5/6 hours homework pw. Plus a maths/ science tutor for an hour each week.
She is working at levels 6 & 7 so is on target for good GCSE grades.
Additionally she dances for about 10 hrs pw with dance classes every evening and on Saturday.
But, she finishes school at 3:30, walks into town with friends and catches local bus home, getting home by 4:20, so she has a natural break, and will then get on with homework before going out to dance class.
I know I couldn't concentrate from 9am to 6pm each day without some major breaks, and I wouldn't expect my DD to do that. Could you look at your DD getting home a bit earlier on 1 or 2 afternoons? Or let her go off with friends before you collect her at 6?

GCSE you might get %
I have never given % for a KS3 in twenty old gimmery years

My hunch is that this school is trying to get parents/ students to make up for poor teaching by setting so much homework.

How do they do by their disadvantaged pupils?

My year 8 daughter is level 6a in English, maths, science. Top sets in an above average comp (about 65% 5 or more GCSEs) and probably only does about 2 hours of homework a night. Certainly most nights she doesn't do any homework. She does have piano and clarinet practice/lessons after school. Also does a bit of dancing and plays in a band.