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.

Well following a shouting match, I fear there will be worse to come. I long for an easy ride, but that is not likely.

Oh dear btm.

I have DD's uni plans. She doesn't care what she studies, but she's going to move far away, buy a house, get a fabulous job and study all at the same time .

Oh I nearly forgot. She's buying a sausage dog too.

Errol I'm sure she will change her mind z( my dd, not yours).
Btm I think we are going to get through plenty of this year

My dd is getting a kitten and a bunny who will be best friends

Thanks

Not sure DD will continue at this Sixthform or indeed with Alevels, despite great GCSE results. You can't teach resilience or maturity can you?

On a more positive note, DS's HoY10 sent another email praising him

HSM - we've already got a sausage dog(the animal mentioned in previous post, lovely warm thing on a cold morning), which is probably what will ensure DD treks home to visit once in a while.

Errol don't you dare tell my DD as we are being totally unreasonable not buying one.

Absolutely YABU.

BTM you sound like you need some Great news about your DS. What is your DD saying she wants to do at the moment ?

DD is apparently going to be a mad cat lady and isn't having children. That's after going far away to University.

She has gone over to a friends with her best mates AFAIK. I doubt she'll be wanting to talk to me about what she wants to do in the near future!

Ah ok, been there. Bit of space good at this point. I'm sure this is nature's way of launching them out of the nest.

Hang in there,, think this bit was always likely to be a bit tricky

Thanks SugarPlum Lucky I'm away on the weekend and then goung to see DM!

I hope you enjoy the away bit and that your DM doing OK. This is the sandwich generation bit in action isn't it. Chuck perimenopause and menopause in and it is a wonder anyone emerges sane from it all !

SugarPlum and BTM, I read a book that says teenagers are desperately trying to detach themselves from parents and become independent so they pick fights on purpose. I'm holding onto that thought like a crutch!

DS has dropped sociology as it is a 2 year course and he had no intention of taking it onto A2. School has decided it is not offering AS as so much teaching time is lost. He is enjoying his other subjects and is actually reading round them. Not too many essays so far.

Idefix, well done to your DS.

Megirl, we are in Herts too!

dingit - I'm furious on your DD's behalf that she's at a school that put her in for GCSE Maths two years early and then won't let her take Further Maths A-level without an A*! Did you realise this? Could she not have retaken her GCSE?

Unfortunately, for engineering degrees at Cambridge, Imperial etc she is going to be competing against people with A* at GCSE, A in Additional Maths and doing Further Maths A-level. So if you can't negotiate her onto the Further Maths course, I think she would be well advised to try to expand her Maths/Engineering outside of school.

I agree that 7-8 A* in one sitting is normally considered the minimum requirement to be invited for interview at Oxbridge. Of course, there will always be exceptions for mitigating circumstances (and a family member of mine was in that category) but it gives you a ballpark anyway.

Ono, I am going to hang onto that thought too. The stroppiness, etc certainly is having the desired effect on me!

And V impressed that your DS is reading around his subjects No sign of that here, but she has been deluged with homework.

Thanks nick, I think we have realised she is punching a bit above her weight. She has changed schools for A level, at the time she took her GCSE we didn't realise. Her additional maths was mostly without a teacher, we got her a tutor last minute, so she did well, although that won't be considered by a university. The school she now goes to specialises in engineering ( an all girls selective academy) so hopefully they will be able to point her in the right direction.

That makes a lot of sense Ono. I think I might possibly remember deliberately arguing with my Dad.

Can't contribute to the Maths /Engineering discussion but watching with interest as suspect DS will follow that route.

Had a text from DD, she might be swapping from Media to thd Photography BTEC - 3rd time lucky ?

I had a call from DD. Could I drive 20 miles to take her a phone charger. Er no?

Mmm no reading around subjects going on here.

But can definitely understand the need for a sausage dog and sense of being complete currently snuggling with my very own dasch

BTM hope that dd chills out with friends and comes back happier, really like what you say Ono so, so applies to dd who has just started yr 10.

The good news about ds English remark has been a little overshadowed by troubles with dd. But going ds favourite restaurant while dd tackles d of e.
So far this week learnt that dd was being punched and kicked by a new boy in her yr if she did not allow him to feel her bottom found out from another mum whose dd was experiencing the same. When I spoke to dd and asked why she hadn't said anything I was told "you'll just report it and he will get into trouble and he hasn't got any friends" following a long chat explaining that other mother was going to report it she agreed to speak to pastoral. Has now been dealt with, but has just really confirmed despite all the "you are ruining my life" rants I get that dd is far, far from being grown up.

Looking forward to lovely meal tonight to celebrate the remark and one of these

Cheers everyone!

No? HSM so mean tell her that you are trapped under the sausage and can't possibly move.

Idefix

Sorry to hear about all the nastiness Ideflix.

The end of week brings a stressy stroppy tired 'just started sixth form' younger dd, an over excited 'going off to university soon' older dd and a German exchange student to be ferried to various places, so I have cracked and bought a Rom Com and some for tonight.

sorry Idefix (must have been thinking of Netflix)