Year 11 GCSE Exam Support Thread 2

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New thread ..... (DD not sure about the prom dress she has bought!!!!)

Lots of luck to all those dc (and parents) with exams starting today.

Good Luck to everyone sitting exams today, first one next week for both of mine.

Re. new suit, I've ordered a couple and have a friend with a DS a year older who has offered his, so hopefully we'll be OK!

Kids eh!

Good luck to those taking exams today. My ds (year 10) has iGCSE English. In fact he is due to finish the paper in 15 minutes!

Good luck everybody's babies!

Wish they were babies again! Much easier at that stage

Hugh good luck to all the DC and their poor mothers today who start the first exams for the kids and for The mums

Good luck everyone.

Horse a week's notice is plenty although it brings back memories of the texts I used to get at Governors meetings "Muuuum. I've got cookery tomorrow and I need..."

Well that was tough. Just got dd in on time for her second and final day of art after she was up virtually all night completing her sketch-book. She got literally a couple of hours sleep. Of course I was far from happy about this but when I went to see her on several occasions during the night she said she had to finish it and pointed out quite logically that the preparatory work is worth 30% of total and the finished piece itself is worth 10%. Final exam as a whole is 40% of total marks, the rest on course-work/portfolio.

dh has been harrumphing about about this type of behaviour from dd saying she is an idiot (when she stays up nearly all night) disparaging art as a subject (because I guess he worries it's taking up all her time - but he's never done this before. I thought we both loved both of our DCs creations and love of art )

Keeping the peace and steering dd through her preparations to her art exam has been exhausting. Am just having a morning coffee now to hopefully stop me going straight back to bed!

Please tell me art is the worst and we'll have it out of the way by the end of the day!

dd did make me laugh with conversation as I drove them in to school, saying "You've got to love the pathetic fallacy" It was raining

She then proceeded to explain the concept to her younger brother - he learns a lot from her - she'd already just told him that Y9 is nearly as much of a breeze as Y8 (which he is currently in) But he should pay attention in sciences and RS after Christmas! (because start covering GCSE topics in those subjects then)
Insider knowledge - younger brothers and sisters have it so much easier I reckon, especially when they're at the same school

Juggling, I agree Art is the worst! And DD needs an A to do graphic design next year.
My Ds is in year 9, and I so wish he would listen to his big sister!

Dingit, same here - if only DS would listen to DD!

DD's best friend finished his art coursework at the end of last week and today he brought her a lovely sketch he had done of the two of them. How sweet is that.

Hsm, that's lovely.
Dd home, and said the English paper was better than she expected. It's one to cross off the list, anyway

That's great dingit!

Good news Dingit, DD just in and has said much the same and is in a good mood Her photography has gone in today as well so 2 down.

That is lovely HSM

I don't want DS to listen to DD, he'll do no work if he does He's come home clutching big sheet of spellings to learn for SATS next week which was a bit depressing.

Ds home and said the English was better than expected too, phew!
Although part of me will be worrying about whether he read the questions properly.
1 down quite a few still to go... ??

DS said it was 'not impossible' ...

He seems very very glad to get the first one done and dusted and crack on with the rest.

dd home just now after art exam -
cross with me though as she had to walk home (carrying one of her sketch-books) as we didn't manage to communicate pick up time very well and so I missed her - basically she stayed late finishing bits off I think. Also unfortunately didn't have her mobile on her as put off taking it in as it's not allowed in exams (and she just got it so isn't that used to it yet - just what you need though on days like today. Oh well)
Because she is also knackered and hungry I am seriously in the dog-house
But as almost an aside she did manage to tell me that actually it went OK. She even has some pics which she will show me later - but "I'm not showing you now!"
I'm just relieved she's back home as dh and I were slightly worried about her, not knowing where or how she was.
As I just said to dh on the phone I'm really hoping art is the worst - and not just the first!
Hoping we won't have this staying up all night thing with any of the others. Mostly it's one exam a day for the next 4 weeks, with the half-term week for revision right in the middle. That should be manageable surely?!

Well ds is still in school tonight as the science moderator has asked to see his work as one of the 5 they assess, so him and a teacher are going through it to make sure it's A* as apparently the scores the 5 get reflects the scores for the whole class. No pressure then! Glad people thought engine went ok and well done on the art HSM, I'm so hoping DD year 8 decides against it, Me and DS both told her how stressful it was yesterday, he said the most stressed people at present in school are the artiSt's closely followed by the drama people as they still don't know when they have to do their performance and after next week there isn't a day when they are all available someone has an exam everyday from their group of 25...great timing by the exam board. Suggestion has been made that they all go in on Saturday and teacher just records it and sends it off. We'll see how that goes.

SugarPlum, bebumba well done on the English! And photography, SugarPlum.

Juggling well done on the Art!

AuntP, so hope this doesn't happen to DD - she won't cope well with anything extra happening. Good luck to your DD on the Drama.

Nice to have one or two exams over and done with.

Guess what? Ofsted are visiting my dc's school. What timing! Poor teachers....

Oh flipping heck Littleham They're coming to DD'S school shortly.

That's another layer of stress for your DS. DD ditched drama at end of year 10, hated it by then .

Same here SugarPlum, re ditching the Drama. Infact it was before the end of Y10 IIRC!

Poor teachers and students with Ofsted coming too

I think the drama must vary a bit between the different boards - DD did AQA, they did quite a few performances as CAs throughout the two years, of which I think they could discard two. They were all over with before Easter so that's 60% of that one out of the way.

60% a nice amount to have out of the way

I forgot it is Tuesday and Maths tutor was coming until car arrived.DDD shattered and luckily she was very understanding.