Parents of Year 11's - in the midst of exams!

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roll up roll up, for our new support thread for all parents of year 11 kids. Whether your kids work hard or not, what ever their goals (or not!) this is our place to de-stress :)

Maxtrue snap! Dropped DD in for her morning AQA poetry exam & she said Mum this could be the last time you come to the school if I change schools for 6th form - drove away feeling emotional as this is DD2. Was ready to give up primary as she was ready for senior school by start of yr6 & I had had enough with all the volunteering by then - change was needed! Microsoft also updated to v.10 without permission - brilliant timing Microsoft! DD feeling positive about poetry, but think having half term on the horizon & study leave has helped! 9 down & 10 to go for us as DD took 2 in Yr9, which seemed crazy at the time, but which I'm grateful for now! Good luck & happy half-term everyone 😃

Just off to the leavers' service. But they are all back in after half term as no study leave here. June 17th is DS last day. Prom is the week after.

Heavens to Murgatroyd. If my computer secretly updated me to Windows 10 I shall lose the plot completely!

DD was shouting Oh My God in the middle of the night and ended up in bed with me. Still shouting. Then was up about 4.30 thrutching for the clock and muttering about the time and how long she had left in bed. When I told her the time she was relieved she had so long left to sleep. Doesn't remember any of it of course, but apparently one of her mates overslept yesterday morning and was an hour late for the maths exam and this must have been playing on her mind.

DD has form for random sleep walking and sleep shouting.

My DS has Eng Lit today, his least favourite - been a busy week, one every day for him. He is doing CCEA board for most subjects and AQA for Science.
I think he still has around 12 exams to do still, so we are not quite halfway.

Feeling both old and nostalgic. DD has just got home and said the unseen poem was Arms and The Boy by Wilfred Owen, one I did in secondary. How different it looks now with adult eyes than when it made no sense to me at all as a teen.

Exit I still have those dreams about missing an exam now and I'm a lot little older than your DD

I'm awaiting my update text

We need a new thread soon!!

I will hear from DD when she gets home this afternoon. I am not expecting her to contact me before then. They aren't allowed to use their phones at school.

She wasn't looking forward to this exam as she hates poetry, as do I. I think a lot of it is just pretentious twaddle that makes no sense. I much prefer to read and enjoy some straightforward prose.

OYBBK water bottles go on the floor, don't worry about spillages!

My group said the exam wasn't too bad this morning. Didn't see dd1 but her friends said the same.

We do!

Exit you must be exhausted!

Last day at school for both DS and DD1 (she is going to conservatoire, he is going to 6th form college). High dudgeon from DS this morning because he has to walk home since they both finish at the same time and her school is 30 miles away while his is 10 mins (in the car. Longer if walking obviously). But her school isn't kicking out till normal time for everyone else other than Y13 so the buses aren't running early, so it was either DH gets her or she sits around in the library (in fancy dress) till 3:30. And she wasn't gonna do that. DS v pissed off though. Not ideal preparation for eng lit which is probably his weakest subject. Ah well. He thought yesterday's maths was good so...

12 down and 8 to go. All my girls and DS said English lit was fine 😀

English Lit finished. Inspector Calls questions were "good" and Heroes "OK".
Just over half way through the exams in terms of numbers. But last exam isn't until 27th June so that's one month to go!

For the first time DD sent me a text before I had chance to contact her about how it had gone.

AQA Eng Lit Poetry - apparently it went really well and involved 2 of her favourite poems. She is positively buzzing (but that might also have something to do with the exam-free week ahead and a planned couple of days away ).

10 down and 12 to go!!

No complaints from DS and 2 friends that I picked up earlier, AQA Egnlish Lit Poetry. Their teacher had correctly deduced which poems were likely to come up, so they all felt confident.

Leavers assembly, the kids has their shirts entirely covered in graffiti and leaver hoodies in their hands

Phew... a week off

No complaints from DS and 2 friends that I picked up earlier, AQA Egnlish Lit Poetry. Their teacher had correctly deduced which poems were likely to come up, so they all felt confident.

Leavers assembly, the kids has their shirts entirely covered in graffiti and leaver hoodies in their hands

Phew... a week off

DD said her exam was between ok and it went well. 8 down and 8 more to go.

Edexcel Eng Lit was ok too apparently.

Eng Lit Exam OK. Leavers' Service lovely. Post service get together great fun and re-gathering of the parents from primary school reminiscing that it didn't feel like 5 years had passed.

Looking forward to a calm and measured approach to half term and some clarification on Prom 'dress' for boys as agreed by the girls before we head off to buy suit/black tie/other specified male outfit.

WJEC English Lit was good too.
Half way done. Yipee!

Yippee indeed. My recycling is collected next week, a good job as the paper bin is stuffed with religious studies and AQA lit. I suggested he keep the poetry anthology to look back on in years to come - a suggestion that was greeted with the laughter that it deserved.

I think we get the leaver's letter after the holidays, I've read last year's so I have a broad idea of what to expect. I don't think they do leaver's anything - they just wander off after their last exam. There wasn't even enough interest this year to have a leaver's hoodie.

Situated, 29 years after I sat my 'O' levels I STILL wake up stressing that I've not read one of the set English texts!

I sometimes have nightmares about not having done enough revision for one of my A levels.

English lit was not that good,, but wasn't expected to be good, so was as expected, if that makes sense.