GCSE Results thread and starting 6th form

[WitchofScots]

Follow on thread from the GCSE exams and proms thread. For hand holding and recommendations of wine/chocolate/biscuits to get through the post results stuff.

After weeks of broken nights sleep-wise, I had fairly good night! DD's been up since 5am, she wanted to go on her computer and then the internet went down at 5.20am, so she's not pleased. She's bouncing about a bit in a nervous sort of way.
Good Luck everyone ~ results from 8.45am for us at school so better go and get everyone ready.

That's great Shanghai, bodes very well for next year.

DD and her mates are asleep upstairs. Do I wake them if they don't appear by 8?!

They are up and hogging the shower DH is looking nervous. He NEVER looks nervous.

I slept well considering. DD thinks she's had about 3.5 hours. We've just had breakfast and planning to leave in half an hour. Need to be at her school relatively early to have any hope of a parking space.

One hour and thirty five minutes to go. Oh Lordy.

Good luck everyone. Not just for the results but also for their reactions.

It's the reaction I'm most worried about!

Good Luck all!

Thanks Ripeningapples that's a nice thought about reactions as well as results
Many of them also thinking of their friends so it's a big morning for them in lots of ways
Quite a lot of different things to cope with
Love and best wishes to all x

for those of you with twins, hard enough with one.

No sign of DD, we're discussing when to wake her.

I hear movement...

DD can go at 8am but is waiting until half 8. She's just gone to the gym with her friend, I've dropped her off and am having a quick breakfast before going to find a parking space.
School have tweeted that the results are fantastic. No pressure then.

Ok DD is up. (And I will be late for work...)
Very nervous here.
Good luck everyone. Almost over.

Pants...DD's school have put the results on the parents secure website. I am going out (without internet) or I know I will look before she goes to collect them. I'll be reading in the car park!

Good luck all.

Good luck all. This was me last year. This year I just have maths resits to worry about. DS because he's failed twice and DD, because she wants to do a postgrad course that needs a higher grade than she already has.

DS has worked so hard to pass this year, I will be gutted for him if he fails.

Apparently DS1 was spotted by DD at the unprecedented early hour of 7am. He has retreated to his teenage pit.

DS is happily playing computer games, I'm quietly cursing his school that we have to wait until 11am to go in.

All still asleep here Results available at 10am. I'm feeling nervous!

DS was up at 630 and out at 7 to meet his mates at the local "caff" for breakfast and banter.
I will get a call hopefully after 9 before he goes to enrol at 6th form. Needs 7 A*-C to get in.

DSs is 9am. I wonder why some schools are so much later?

I collect DD at 8:45 from ncs, and we'll go to Starbucks. She can collect from 10, and still plans to not open, and head straight for the car and home, to open in private.
Then at some point she'll tell me.
She needs to be back at 12:30 ish.

Hopefully: a) a teacher doesn't try to talk to her about anything whilst she's in there - I don't think she could cope with hints about how she might have done.
b) she isn't waylaid by other students or held up too long collecting the envelope.
c) if necessary she gives us enough time to pop over to her Sixth From college for any crash advice.

Oh and I'm crap at reacting well to good news apparently - so how can I be "genuinely enthusiastic"?

Mummy time, rehearse!
Praise the effort your DC put in rather than saying how clever they are. Eg I have been so impressed with the focus and effort you put in and I can see how hard you worked.

Soupdragon.

Feeling sick and they haven't even left the house yet!

Spud, I am trying to think of positive things to say if it doesn't go to plan

DS received his results by email this morning, we're celebrating!!!! Very very happy and very very relieved it's all over. Good luck to everyone and for this great supportive thread over the last several months.

DS is in the shower. We'll go up in about half an hour to collect results. If he meets the required grade he can sign up for sixth form. He has to take £5 as a common room contribution so musn't forget to take that with us. Anyone need to remember anything else?

mummytime as long as she gets what she needs to get on her next course, you can be enthusiastic about that. 'Great, you're in, you did it, well done', smile, big hug, etc.

If not, no amount of enthusiasm will make her feel better I'm afraid but you can help with practicalities of speaking to staff about where to go from there. Good luck.

BigTillyMint, I'm planning to recount an epic failure of my own- Maths CSE failure. CSE!!!!!! Not just once either- took me three times. So I'm going for something like- Yes I remember feeling disappointed when I failed my maths, because I knew I was going to need it. I had to have a real think about what had gone wrong and work hard to get to where I needed to be. It was tough. But although it felt impossible at the time, I managed it with a lot of hard work.
In reality however, she will scream 'You don't know anything!!!' Before I've finished the first sentence.