Year 11 GCSE support thread 6 - exams and proms

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Good luck to those still taking exams.

Ha loving the elephants. Ds went off to Japan with group items water bottles etc with surname and pink flower (I cut off dds name) to ensure he wasnt drinking from someone else's bottle. To say he was unimpressed was an understatement, but he's as funny as me about sharing cups etc so accepted it. Not heard from him since arrived at jamboree but seen pics from the group on fb and twitter. DD has started cout down to her bday which is day after results so suddenly it seems close. Ds not home until week before. So not long to panic

Saw DD briefly today when I gave her a lift to her grandmas. A group of about 8 of them have been rotating around each other's houses for the past few days. Not our house, because we're not in walking distance.

She's due home tomorrow, to do some 6th form prep and then her job induction on Friday.

I'm starting to think about strategies......on results day.
DD has made it clear they are HER results and may or may not share . I can't tell if she's saying this just to watch me squirm at the moment...ha ha very funny.
I'm wondering whether she will go quiet and sulky or do the whole running around and squealing thing. Will she want to celebrate/ commiserate? Or just forget about it. Talk about it or not? The worst case scenario would be sulking as it would put a downer on the last couple of days of our hard earned holiday. Never really had a situation like this before so I'm finding it hard to predict.
How do you all think your DC will deal with the information?

Spud, we have had the same from DD worrying about her results. I think she has agreed to send me a photo of them so she doesn't have to actually say them to me. After last year when she seemed to take ages to come home and show us her results (2 GCSEs) as she was so disappointed with the Chemistry

The benefit of DS being incommunicado in India, is that I have no idea whether he's worrying about his results or not! I suspect not, as he will be too busy to think about it really.

I will need to drive DS to school on results day, although no doubt I'll be under strict instructions to stay in the car until he deigns to appear with his results. He needs 5 grade As to be able to stay at his current school (absolutely no leeway with that). He refused to register at any other schools, so if he doesn't get the grades I will need to go into full-on mad ringing around all the other schools mode.......I think I may take a list of telephone numbers with me, just in case.

I think our plan is that one or both of us drives DD and then loiters in a coffee shop for her to contact us. I did ask her if she'd rather go on the bus and then hang with her friends after but she declined that. I guess she wants us available but if she does want to do stuff with her mates after that's OK by me - it's their day. I think she's pretty confident she's done well in the subjects she cares about, and the rest I'm anticipating a mix of some better than she thought and some disappointing but no disasters. But I think none of us can help being apprehensive on their behalf.

DD1 will walk in on her own.

She'll ring us, and give us an incoherent and possibly inaccurate account of her results. Probably starting with 'I'm really delighted' or 'It's terrible' neither of which phrases will in any shape or form be an accurate summary. We will ask her 3 or 4 times before she clearly reads out results subject by subject. Even then we won't be sure until we see the piece of paper ourselves.

It will be a trying hour.

DS will be driven to school by one of us and then will prob come home to mull it over!
I hope he does OK because he seemed to be working hard leading upto the exams.
Needs Bs in his A level choices and Cs in English & Maths.

Hello - Just popped back to see if the thread is still going!

Starting to feel a little queasy about results day. Don't know what DS's plans are for the day or when/how he will let us know what he's got.

I like the idea of messaging a photo of the results, will save any miscommunications!

Checking back in with this thread.

Have had a quick skim.

So, it's just been me and DS at home these past couple of weeks while husband and DS2 have been in France.

I've been working all the time but doing things either with DS or with my friends in the evening - a nice time to do stuff w/o a demanding 6 yo around.

DS annoying me a bit in the last week or so. I got him full membership to the sports centre for 6 weeks which to be fair he has used a great deal, but apart from that there's been rather a lot of sitting at his laptop or playing guitar.

I get frustrated cos I'm sitting in my garden office working away and he's got days and days to himself to do whatever he likes (within the constraints of being 16 and money etc) but sits in his room tinkering.

I have to drive DD to school, unless she's already at a friends house. I am strictly not allowed into the school grounds

DS back from his travels to Africa - I simply cannot describe the smell in the kitchen right now and if the backpack and contents weren't needed for DofE in a couple of weeks, I'd bin the lot. He had a great time - I was hoping he would have learnt how to close drawers, pick up clothes from the floor and bring cups downstairs but apparently not....

My stomach is doing somersaults about R-Day! I have just texted DH to tell him he will have to take DS to school as I cannot face it. I will be at home in case I need to swing into action with Plan B. Do you think we could have a group go at coming up with 'calming down phrases' in case the results aren't what they wanted as all mine seem to do the opposite and make things worse?

Ono40, where in Africa has your DS been? Mine came back on Saturday and the smell was quite strong to say the least!!

Ono my planned phrase after seeing the results is going to be "congratulations" even if I have to go away and weep .

DD returned from her gran's after days away, cleaned out the guinea pigs, put a wash on, dyed her hair purple, found the missing door key and went out again. She assured me she does like us .

I keep seeing results day in the calendar when I'm booking things in .

Singing a song to myself tonight :

Where have all the hangers gone
Long time passing
Where have all the hangers gone
Long time ago
Where have all the hangers gone
Young girls nicked them every one
When will they ever learn ?
When will they ever learn ?

While trying to hang the washing

Dh is recovering well after his op, I took the day off and we had a lovely walk in wharfedale. He's feeling well enough that he's made a booking for himself and dd to have 4 nights down on Exmoor next week to do some walking there - she's going to carry all the food and water. It's not exactly what we'd planned for this summer but DD is being positive and cheerful. I'm a bit sorry there wasn't time to organise for me to go too (work, dog...) but it's good that they do this sort of thing together. And I get to do watersports with her tomorrow.

I'm trying not to think about results day.I'm impressed by all the planning going on here though.Dd1 worked so hard for her exams that we have already bought her a charm bracelet as a reward.I just know she has done her absolute best regardless of the results.We are in KL and due to currency devaluation it makes sense to buy gold as an investment at the moment.Dd2 has also done very well!
There are some intrepid travelers on this thread but i'm also very impressed by the ones working thoughout the holidays .Some of those jobs sound hard but such valuable experience.

HSM. DD brought down 2 bags of 'rubbish' from her room which included many coat hangers and her school uniform,

Very glad DH on the mend Errol and that you get to do something with her.

DD wants to travel again so is now officially job hunting. Only thing is we are away plus she has green hair so it hasn't got off the ground. I'm slightly in denial about results day. FIL is definitely in his final days reading email Tuesday and I spent the whole week jumping when the phone rang. Got really stressed about how DH and I were going to get out to Spain in the next few weeks for the funeral juggling results, childcare, starting 6th form and DS's birthday. Dad said to me I had to be realistic and accept DH will probably have to go on his own (I swore he wouldn't after he did for MIL) but I can see he's right.

On the plus side, the phone calls of doom about my Mother have stopped and we have made it away. The deer have had a go at our bread delivery and there is a Swallow's nest under the eaves on the terrace plus lots of lovely ducks bobbing around outside our bedroom window. Hopefully we will be able to unwind a bit despite being on tenterhooks waiting for the news about FIL.

DD promised me a whole weekend at home. She's been on her first aid course and gone to a friend for the night. She's back tomorrow - with her friend. We might have words .

DS is currently in Tokyo, sure he's not thinking about exam results, so I'm not yet!

You can have DD Instead, she can't chat to friend's online currently until DH wakes up and fixes her iPod. She is not happy, I can feel it through the walls.

AP, reckon it's very fair to say results last thing on his mind!

Good luck to those on here waiting for results on Thursday Friend's DD who I've been helping since GCSE options is waiting. I think I'm nearly as nervous about that as I am DD's results. I picked up her AS results last year as they were away and had to break bad news which was not pleasant. Really hope this year is better, she has worked so hard.

Thursday coming round very quickly now. Trying not to think about it, but not succeeding!

Not sure whether to feel sick about this Thursday (A Levels) or the one after (GCSE's). (sickness not envy)

Tension starting to rise for dd3. She is happy about most of them, but English Literature is the big worry as she found one of the exams horrible. She is a logical soul so if she is asked to describe the mood of the cat sitting on a mat and analyse how it came to be there, she would point out that the cat is simply sitting on the mat. She did try to expand in the exam but it doesn't come naturally.

Good luck to everyone waiting for A level results.