Last year dd predicted B in science. Now getting Es

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

She's in year 10. Was on track for B in science. Chose double science rather than triple as she couldn't do graphics if she did triple due to timetable clash and graphics is her passion.

I had concerns about science teaching this year and wrote a long letter to the head just after half term. Her chemistry teacher had been off sick and the supply teacher was useless. Was teaching them biology rather than chemistry. Dd had no homework from any of her three science teachers in the first half term.

The head emailed me back saying HoY would contact m. Sh did and said she had spoken to the head of science who had no idea the teachers weren't setting homework. And this would now be sorted. I was thanked for contacting the school. Normal chemistry teacher came back off the sick.

Dd has had some end of term exams, got an E for physics, D for biology and hasn't got her chemistry Mark back yet. Other subjects she's hpgetting A, A* and Bs. So I don't think it's her messing about.

She says she still hasn't had any science homework. She says her biology teacher is useless and talks to fast and that loads of kids talk/mess about.....which I can believe as school has a terrible problem with behaviour.

In fact when I wrote the letter about the science homework I also complained about behaviour in Geography lessons as dd said it was like a riot at times and the teacher couldn't cope. When the HoY rang me she said the parents of the worst behaved kids had been called into school and that the kids had been threatened with suspension, so it must have been bad.

Do I complain again? About the behaviour and the lack of homework? Or do I just give up, accept the school are shit and don't give a toss? Get her some revision books and tell her to get on with it herself? I really don't think complaining is going to help.

[mummytime]

With TES I would start by looking for some edexcel specific revision guides to start with. You can use other exam board stuff, but their syllabuses may be a bit different, and even the style of question may vary.
If you got to the edexcel site you may be able to get past papers and Mark schemes to download.

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

Thanks, will do this. Dd has agreed to doing a minimum of one hour a week Bitesize or TES type stuff.

[GinandJag]

I would also recommend buying the Edexcel course textbook. It's about £15 for each year of the course.

[Brioche201]

If the story is the same across all the science subjects, then it is unlikely that the teaching is the problem