Parents of Year 11DC support thread. The final term.

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Eep.

I know - I am beyond thrilled.

And bizarrely she only has to get 2 Bs and 3 Cs .

They clearly want her!

Exit that's brilliant news

Great news Exit, I think that it's a good time to be focussing on what happens after exams rather than dwelling on the examination process itself. DS has a similar offer but phrased differently - five GCSEs A-C with Bs in the subjects he wants to study. For him this also means 2Bs and 3Cs. It does take the pressure off them when they know that they don't need a clear run of A*/A to continue along their chosen path. School is still saying that anything less than A is career suicide and they'll end up living in a box but then they would, wouldn't they?

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just wanted to ask a quick question

I left high school around 8yrd ago.
Wanted to do something nice for the high school as they helped me a lot and I thought of doing someone's make up for prom? For free? They could pick the one that deserved it the most.
Do you lot think this would work?
Im a local make up artist wanting to give back.
Might be able to stretch to 2 depending on dates (gettinf booked up etc)

Exit - good news

Lost - lovely idea

lost Sounds a great idea, though I imagine they may be unwilling to send you off round students homes. Maybe you could do a kind of "salon" in some classroom in the couple of hours straight before the prom?

Shiney as long as he stays well I can do a full face of make up in less than 40mins lol. Will give the school a ring

At long last dd has received her GCSE timetable. First exam IT on 11th May and final exam DT on 27th June!
Am invigilating GCSE Art exams tomorrow (at different school to the one dd attends).
Hope the French goes well for your dd dream would agree with the teacher that understanding tenses and vocab is better than memorizing answers to questions.

A very belated thank you for whoever it was that mentioned Quizlet. It was probably months ago when DS was in his phase of "nothing can be done to make revision easier" because he shot it down immediately. He's altogether more open to suggestion at the moment and I put it forward again as an aid to history revision - he's good with the story and names but it's dates that elude him. He looked at it, made a set of cards and shared them with friends.

I am beginning to think that alien abduction is the only answer to the change in him over the last few weeks. I just hope that they don't bring my son back until the end of June as the podcreature seems to be doing a better job of revision than he was.

oh good, I'm glad it helped :)

Hope the French speaking goes well for those who are doing it today.

I dreamt that I was also doing GCSEs this summer (slightly different subjects and boards from DS1) and hadn't received my exam timetable yet.

Hope it goes ok today for those doing speaking. I've an exam this morning too. Our house is very stressful with 2 of us on exams. Though in 2 years there will be 3!

Good luck to everyone - especially DocMartens :)

Glad Dreamdd's oral exam went ok

When is study leave for your dc? Dd's last day is Thursday 12 May. That's really soon.

Halfterm here for study leave

DD wasn't happy with her French yesterday, but its done now. Waiting for her to get home to find out how photography second day went. For better or worse that is one GCSE finished with!

Study leave starts on June 20th so triple science students get a week and double science students get nothing at all. Up to then it's school all day, every day for a combination of the normal timetable and special revision sessions. I suspect that the thinking is that they have more chance of learning something at school rather than messing about unsupervised at home.

DSD is off from the 12th May too. DS is from the 13th, though there are some classes still on, a mixture of optional, targeted (at specific pupils) and more or less compulsory ones. The timetable for this period is yet to appear.

If DSD's school is doing any study classes during exam period, she's not let on, and the school's said nothing so I imagine there aren't. They may be assuming they're all bright and organised enough to study independently. I'm not sure DSD is, but she won't go to any extra classes before study leave starts, so I doubt she'd do any once it does either. She's been at her mum's this week, though appears to have had 3 days off school for a sore tummy . She's looking fine now though and has just headed out to her dance class. DSD does not like school much, which I think is the heart of the matter. :( . On the plus side she's had her stitches out her nose and it's looking lovely.

Good to hear your DD's oral went OK dream - if they're the kind of child that gets stressed up about things orals can be dreadful, as you're really put on the spot with no time to think. DSD was very glad to get hers over with.