Year 11 GCSE support thread 6 - exams and proms

[HSMMaCM]

Good luck to those still taking exams.

Just wishing you good luck for the future. It has been a great pleasure to talk to all.

of you..

Hear, hear, Littleham. Amazing support on this thread. Adding my thanks and good luck all!

Yes its great to have this thread with all our different experiences and support. I am thinking I will still need a lot of hand - holding after Thursday too as I imagine deciding on/getting settled on Sixth Form may be as mammoth a task as the GCSES were.

I'll still be here, as DD still has to re-select her a levels !

Excellent results Fairenuff

Horsemad really sorry things have been so difficult . Really hope the events of yesterday turn out to be one of those things you look back on and feel it was meant to be.

This thread has been a big support, thank you all very much. I'll be here still as think there will need to be a bit of juggling post results with the 6th form options and am also a little worried about the 6th form settling in thing plus there will be GCSE Maths resit. You lot have stopped me losing the plot with DD on a few occasions and if she knew she would be very grateful too !!

Adding my thanks for the support and hand holding through the revision time, clinging fall, exams and Japan like sugar coming here to vent and chat has kept ds alive!! Had a chat about uni today and apprenticeships he's obviously been talking on his trip to some of the older scouts as he thinks these sound good, I'll have to do some research as I hadn't appreciated these as an option.
Anyway this time meet week it'll all be over

Great!

I know AuntP - I said that to DD earlier as she was worrying on again about results/which Sixth Form - it is a very unsettling time for them all, particularly if they are not staying on at the same school.

Off on our holiday today......not sure there is WiFi (god help us all) We will be finding a cafe for results morning and awaiting the email. Bleurp. My stomach is doing flips!
I'm hoping I'll be able to check in....we might even have a new thread!
If not.....see you all on the other side.

We will definitely have s new thread for results, because I for one will probably need some hand holding while A level subjects are re-chosen and sixth form looms.

Our sixth form gives them 6 weeks to swap subjects next term. Does anyone else's do something like that?

No idea HSM, but I think most allow some room for manoeuvre. I will be double and triple checking with DD if she thinks she has made the right A level choices (presuming GCSEs no to plan) as I made a bad choice with one of mine and nobody thought to get me to change

Great, glad there's to be a results day and after thread HSM.

I picked up DD from her second week of NCS yesterday - they'd spent the week on a Uni campus with various outings from there.

Anyway on the way home we mentioned results on Thursday and DD said she hoped everyone would be OK - thinking about all her friends that she knows from various activities and groups. I thought that was so lovely of her that her first thought about it included everyone she knows. She is growing into such a lovely young person - think I'd missed her being away for the week! At least we have her home for 2 more yrs before hopefully Uni

Yes HSM, at DD's school re-configuring A level choices after results is definitely an accepted thing and can continue into the first few weeks of term if needed. But certainly between results and term starting it would absolutely fine (as long as it can be accommodated on the timetable I guess) I think DD is reasonably settled with her choice now but still we'll see how she feels on Thursday. I hope she finished some of those papers!

Have a lovely holiday Spud AP I think it really helps when they get a chance to talk to people a few years older, goes down much better than when it comes from us ! How's the jet lag going?

Juggling that is so lovely she is worried about her friends. They are a strange mix of adult and child at this age aren't they?! DD excitedly came to find me earlier to say she has been invited to a fairy festival, it was like she was 8 again.

DD's school allows changes until the first half term I believe.

Apprenticeships definitely worth looking at with University fees and living costs so high now. If anyone has a budding accountant, PWC run one plus work experience in the summer. They really look after them and they seem to be assigned a mentor as far as I can tell.

Having seen various friends having quite a challenging time in years 12 and 13 and how fast the time goes, I want to try and be on top of things next year . Just hope she gets enough next week to scrape onto her A levels and then comes into her own doing the creative subjects she wants to do. Am going to be gutted if Maths resist stops her doing the 3 she wants to do so fingers crossed it's sociology for the chop.

Have only lurked on here but am getting twitchy now. DD has three offers: first choice 9 A-B with A's for A'level options, second choice 8 A-C with A's for A'level options, back-up 6 A-C with B for A level options. Based on induction days the third choice is now more favoured than the second but the first choice remains the holy grail. She will be very upset if she doesn't get the first choice - we don't mind - we like all three schools and think they are all good.

She tends to be a bit frail emotionally though and brother is high achieving and I know it will be a mighty blow if she doesn't get the first choice.

She's tense and anxious now and it's been building. Am trying to do nice things to keep her mind off it:

Have suggested shopping this afternoon
Afternoon tea tomorrow
Monday ???? have to work
Tuesday am at home and we are going to the theatre
Wednesday ???? have to work
Thursday - to be parked outside school at 8.45 so she can be at the front to pick up her results and she intends to hot foot it back to the car and I am to be asked to drive to another road where she can open them with me and away from everyone else. Who knows what will happen at 9am and whether she will change her mind.

I think we will both need a lot of hand holding between now and then and hope she will be OK if it doesn't work out as she wants.

Sit yourself down Ripeningapples , nice comfy seats here, have some and . Good idea to keep her busy. I think it is hard when they are following in the footsteps of a high achieving sibling, especially if they are the type of person to put pressure on themselves. Hard as parents to watch them put themselves through it.

The dicussion about the logistics of Thursday has yet to be had here. Am tempted to get her to have a sleepover early part of next week but am not sure of the current FiL situation. His financial attorney emailed offering some money to 'help with the travelling expenses that are coming soon' but more than that I don't know.

However I am so delighted to be home in my bed with no flaming mosquitos eating me I feel ok to deal with it all.

Ripening that's stressful. My DD has an unconditional offer from her favoured college so we're able to be more relaxed about it though I am getting anxious about it now so I am perfectly relaxed about the whole thing

Ripeningapples, similar concerns here - DDs first choice want minimum A's in Eng, History and Maths I think. She also has various other possibilities with some grades needed/unconditional offers. She will definitely get a place somewhere but it's so unsettling for them not to know.

Arrived at the holiday place.....Our apartment has wifi ladies, it has wifi. Praise be. The girls are happy and I have all your hands to hold in the days ahead, so I am too!

Phew! We stayed in a couple of places with no wifi, but only a night in each thankfully

I felt quite sad at how pleased and excited the girls were to discover the WiFi......then I thought about results day and everyone being able to keep in touch etc and I'll suck this one up. I was looking forward to more conversation, but here we all are on our various tablets.......

I've had a tentative discussion with DS1 regarding Thursday. He wants me to drive him to the school where he has to pick up his results. He's then going to go in on his own to collect them and I can wait nearby if I like. He says he may be some time but has agreed to send an "All okay" text once he's opened the envelope to stop me fretting too much. He wants to tell me the actual grades in person though. I'm finding the waiting hard, I think partly because it's bringing back memories of waiting for my own results at a similar age. I ended up having to wait a long time to get my results as my parents booked a family holiday for that time and I felt upset at the time (and now!) that they didn't seem to have even remembered my exam results were coming out. It sounds kind of silly but I so want to get things right and make things as easy as possible for my DS.

No criticism of anyone with a family holiday booked intended! Things are quite different now with wifi, and I had to wait a really long time.

I'm supposed to be working on Thursday but will take a day off. We'll drive DS in to school and then take him for coffee (us) and cake (him & me!) and we're doing that, whatever his results are.

Ah, that's lovely Horsemad. DD and I are going out to a local show some of her friends are involved with on Wednesday night as a pre-results thing (possibly help take our minds of them? - anyway will be a quiet week with DS away with a friend's family from tomorrow) No plans for Thursday yet apart from going in fairly early to pick up her results. I think we'll go with the flow but hopefully try to do something nice together or with her friends

I think I got my results for both GCSE and A levels in an envelope waiting for me on the doorstep when we got back from family holidays fun
So I missed out on the going into school with friends thing. A slight shame I think but I didn't mind at the time. I don't remember knowing any different - parents possibly kept quiet about arrangements - anyway didn't waste my holiday with any worrying.

I'm driving DS to school for 9am, may even be allowed to go in with him to get the results I think, then I'll be coming straight home while the whole school year descends upon the local Costa Coffee

He is currently away with a group of friends quite some distance from home (I had a thread about it) and I am more worried about that than about his results.