Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

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Only another week to go for DD, but I know some of you have two weeks.

Morning, Torres. Morning, Sparkling. Hope the prom shopping goes well.

DS's prom venue has recently turned into something of a building site so the arrival photos should be, erm, interesting. That backdrop of scaffolding and cement mixers will really set off all the outfits a treat. I doubt the arrival cars will get past the JCBs, actually. DS thinks it's funny, luckily.

Morning HSMM.

There will be angst. We have had to order a suit in because of DS1s ridiculous leg dimensions.

Morning everyone :)

Dance and Physics here today. This is likely to be DD's hardest day (Dance was such a mistake!) so I think we'll just be pleased when today is over. She has had other days with more than one exam but she needs a high mark for the written Dance part as the performance went badly, and P2 is the Physics module she finds most difficult. And the there's the hay fever...

Still, after this just 3 more next week. Good luck to everyone for today.

Hi Tranquility, I bet she (and you!) will be glad to get today over with. Sounds a bit gruelling.

DS has got dance today as well, it is going to be his lowest grade but I am so glad he has done it.

He was allowed to do it in his PE slot instead of non-GCSE PE. He has hypermobility and the type of movement he has done in dance has helped strengthen his core and reduced some of his pain, it is also a group of mainly girls and it has helped him overcome some of his awkwardness around them.

As a maths and science geek with asperger's he isn't really your typical dance student but I think it has done him the world of good - I'm not sure how he is going to replace it next year.

Good luck to your DS, OddBoots. Is it the written paper for him today, too?

Haven't posted but have been lurking on this thread. We are on the homestretch now with physics today and 3 sciences next week. Also next week is Latin Lit and then Latin sources the following week. Seems like DD has exams long past many others. I am really proud of my DD who has had several physical and mental health problems for the last few years and missed a lot of school.

ByTheSea I believe the thread will still be going after next week - so let us all know how your DD is getting on. She sounds amazingly resilient.

Yes, written Linerunner - AQA, he is doing Faultline and Ghost Dances. That prom venue sounds like there will be unique photographs. As long as no dresses or suits get messy in the getting there it should hopefully be treated as amusing.

Have you ordered it from someone who is UK based Sparklingbrook? We had delays then a surprise tax bill for DS's.

Yes odd. Burtons. They have tracked one down finally.I am hoping it will fit. We got nobbled with tax when DH ordered some underpants from the US.

Well done to Spud's DD.

At the DC's school, there are 2 different pathways for Science - Double/Core where they get 2/1 GCSE's covering all three, and a completely different pathway where they study Chemistry, Biology and Physics separately and get a GCSE for each (DD did Chemistry last year so already has that as a single GCSE)

Last day today here, then after results I'll be back in 6 years for DD2.
DD1 will be doing a BTEC in September, so I'll be spared all the A level angst at least!

Well done to all the DC with additional problems - my DD has also had quite severe anxiety/panic issues and I am really proud of her too.

Sparkling, has he got extra-long legs?
DS has a problem wearing skinnies or even straight-legs as he has the family thunder extremely muscular thighs and calves!

Can someone explain the tax thing to me? OH ordered a prom dress for his DD online, paid by debit card. All postage and taxes supposed to be included. Dress arrives. A few days later, so does a customs/duty/tax bill thingy for about thirty quid from TNT. Does he have to pay it? I warned them not to order from outside the UK but would they listen oh no and now she says she's gone off the dress anyway

Hes v tall and gangly with a 28/34 leg measurement. YY unnecessarily long legs.

Good luck to Physics and Dance people today.

Motherstongue and Torres, I am hoping that DS will be my easier one, he's more traditionally academic and at the moment doesn't get phased by tests. The last few weeks with DD have been very challenging indeed and the idea of rerun is not very palatable.

Good luck on the Prom suit shopping Sparkling. DD needs shoes amd to sort what is happening on the night.

I know there is probably no other way of doing it but it really doesn't seem fair to have people finishing whilst others still have a fair few to go.

Really looking forward to the piles of books vanishing soon.

Line my Dad ordered something from the US and it was kept at Royal Mail because he had to pay £11 before they would let him have it.

The tax thing is customs duty I think.

When you go outside the EU on holiday, if you buy something really expensive, you have to declare it to customs when you get back to Britain, and you have to pay a tax. (because if you bought it in Britain you'd be paying VAT on it).

So getting something expensive posted from China, you still have to pay the duty.

Good luck to the Physicists and Dancers today. Oddboots my DDs have both had (extracurricular) dance lessons. DD1 had a boy in her classes for years. The girls all thought the world of him and he was nicely confident around them. He was also very polite when I was helping out at the shows and a brilliant role model for the younger boys in the dance school Oh God I'm turning into my mother

My DS is still only 8 but is skinny with long legs. He comes up to my top lip already I'm a shortarse He has a suit for his First Communion next week and he looks so handsome in it. I daren't tell him about the suits with the snazzy red linings or I'd be taking this one back

Physics here for both mine.

DD is revising in bed. DS still asleep. That about sums up the story of GCSEs here.

Next week we still have history and Latin. Well jel of those of you done and dusted.

Woollyif I were you I would check out prom suits straight away. It might take 8 years to find the right leg length.

Good luck to the dancers and others this morning. (DD still dormant, I'm to wake her at 8:30 if she hasn't emerged.)

Glad the dance was so positive for your DS, Oddboots - wish someone would remind the powers that be that there is (or should be) so much more to teenage schooling than academics and exam grades.

DD still asleep too. I'll wake her at 9, then work with her 10-12 I think. Enough to get her brain in gear, but not so much as to stress / exhaust her.