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.

Jeez, QOD, that sounds like you have to sit a maths paper yourself to work that out!

Oh I doubt she'll more more than a couple of A*s, and there will definitely be at least one B going on CA marks! All the hard work in the world won't improve her French.... And as for Hannah and her sweets, Maths could be anything.....

Bloody Hannah! Couldn't she just have eaten the sweets?

WitchofScots I'm having major panics at the moment as we haven't thought what'll happen if he doesn't pass either!!! We've no Plan b!!!
I'm loving the idea of throwing myself at the feet of the Head of Sixth Form!

Bloody Hannah indeed, I hope she needs lots of fillings.
I can still remember going to get my exam results, I hope that DD does better than I did as I really disappointed my parents not that I care now.

We've already had a change of plan. It's now she's going to get the envelope and come out to the car and open it there as doesn't want to be surrounded by friends celebrating their A/A*s or upset because they didn't get them.

Also now slight doubts about Art are creeping in and she feels she would really like to do Sociology. Some rather heart wrenching emails about FIL coming through, all in all think it is going to be a long few days. Knew I should have bought some Space Brownies in Amsterdam !

Marking my place.

I may need you al on Thursday....this could go either way. We have no plan B if it all goes horribly wrong my plan is to cry and beg his teachers to let him stay on if he doesn't get the grades.

Apparently the schools will only give results to the candidate (unless they provide written permission for someone else to collect).... I can see DS1 refusing to get out of bed, just to annoy me.

I've taken the day off work on Thursday to go with DD to school to get hers. They have to be there in person to collect them. She'd better not stay in bed til noon like she has been this summer, I am not spending half my day's leave pacing up and down waiting for to get up.

Nothing wrong with the cry and beg strategy Lynette though I am idly wondering whether H of 6th form might be susceptible to bribery and what might be a good bribe

This will probably totally out me....but there is a new head of 6th form at DSs school.....who just happened to be the teacher DS refused to do the last piece of course work for. It all got a bit messy with the teacher emailing me twice a day asking me to get DS1 to do it, and then a really long ranty email, to which I sent a rather snotty reply, and both of us copying in HofY....then on the last day of term I find out he's the new H of 6th form.

I can kiss goodbye to DS1 getting into uni right now.

I still have a vivid picture of my o level results slip and torn envelope and yelling to my parents "I've done really badly". As for my A level (re-take) results, they got lost in the post and then we had to ring up college where they had lost half of my results. And so I had to ring back later. I knew it was doomed to not end well.......Not that I've been scarred by this experience at all!

The head of 6th form where DD wants to go is really rather gorgeous so I could throw myself at his feet if I forget my feminist principles but, as a feminist, that's not an option.

DD is now looking at what A levels she needs for university because she has to tell them on Thursday and only has two weeks into term to change her mind.

DD has until 12 to collect hers. The year 10s can collect theirs at 11, so she's planning to get there before them. She's going to a results party with a friend who doesn't go to her school in the evening. I think she wants to avoid her school friends having a comparison session.

Witchy - If socialist politicians can send their kids to private school without a blush on their principles, I don't see why feminist reasons should stop a last ditch attempt to convince a HoD to your way of thinking!

Ginandtonictime you make a very good point. Unfortunately I'm about 10 years older than the school principle, so although he's single (as far as I know) wearing a low fitting top and fluttering my eyelashes will get me nowhere....which is why I will need to weep and beg and possibly chain myself to the school steps and refuse to move until they agree to accommodate him.

The school staff seem much more the type to take pity on an emotionally unstable person, or even a 16yo lad with a crazy mother, than to take bribes. But just in case of emergency, what do you reckon the going rate is?

I doubt DS will get out of bed in time to collect his results.

Hmm, mental note to add chains and combination padlock to the to do list. As for bribes obviously a cheque won't do it so has to be under the daily limit of the cashpoint I think?

These sort of things don't really cross your mind when they are all new and have lovely sniffable heads do they

My Dad asked earlier if I have a gin stash.

Do the other schools not do this point thing? I'd never heard of it for 6th form
52 points for an A
46 for a B and son on

We have to be at school for 10.30am on Wednesday.

The panic is rising in the Sparkling household. DS1 has entered the 'I have done really badly I know it' phase.

Oh FFS THURSDAY!

One school in my town does the point thing...but they seemed to be asking for something like a total of 200 points to get into 6th form...they are a highly selective school which recently got the best GCSEs in the country, so that was a bit weird...DS needs B's in the subjects he wants to do at A'level, except maths, for which he needs an A.

DS was predicted a B in maths and said if he doesn't get an A he won't do it at A'level, even if school says he can. But he did an A'level taster session and said it was easy. DH and I suspect he's one of those weird people who find hard maths easy, and never bothers with the easy bits. I'm still waiting for him to learn his times tables.

I think he might actually do better in the subjects he doesn't like, such as Biology and Business, and fuck up in Maths and Chemistry. Hopefully he'll probe me very wrong.

Do you think all the papers are marked now, and the results are sitting somewhere, but we still have four days of not knowing???

They don't do the points thing here either, just goes on grades.

They must be Lynette.

I'd have more faith in that UCAS subject choice link if it didn't have a stinking grammatical error in the first sentence

I just want next Thursday to be over. Last Thursday involved hysterics and clearing (which ended much better than DD2 deserved remarkably well).

DD3 worked her arse off and has to get very good grades to get into the Sixth form she wants to be in. She's just beginning to build up the stress...