Parents of Year 11s - the end is in sight

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Hello everyone, new thread for the final push.

dd is having a scheduled couple of days off. She has come down with a proper old fashioned cold and is coughing. I guess the timing could be worse.

In AQA maths there was a question about two plumbers called Dwayne Pipe and Ivor Wrench

No revision going on here this weekend either.

Are there many people doing Edexcel history? There's so much content for one GCSE.

Yes dd is. I agree loads of content. Luckily it's dds favourite subject so she did a lot of work over the last two years which has made revision slightly less painful.

Is it any more than AQA's content? Or AQA geography?

Are any of you promising money for pass grades? Friends of ours gave their DS a certain amount for a C, more for a B, more for an A. Just wondering if that's standard?

I'm not. The ones I heard of were quite high amount.

We won't be giving cash for grades. I'd rather reward the effort than the result, so Im taking DD on a special trip somewhere she's always wanted to go after exams are over and that will be her reward. She doesn't know yet - shhhhhh!

DD is doing Pearson History, there seems to be a huge amount of content to learn. Dd's bedroom walls have been almost covered in History notes for months though, so hopefully it's all going in!

A friend of DD's has been promised £100 for an A, £75 for B and £50 for a C! Anything less than a C she has to start paying money back at a similar rate. We haven't come to any arrangement with DD but I'm sure we will reward her effort somehow.
I got a double album of The Beatles greatest hits when I did mine in 1973.

at £100 for an A etc - that could be over £1K if they get all As

No reward as such here but we are doing lots of little treats throughout the revision and exam weeks (meals out, couple of days away in London over half term, cinema trip etc) plus we're off on holiday as soon as term finishes and DD has tickets for an event in August that will mean us being taxi service for her and her friend so she's not exactly hard done by!

Snowdrop - 'anything below a C & the child has to pay money back'?!! Really?! What are those parents thinking? As if they're not under enough pressure already!

DocMartens - oh yes a canter along a beach & in the sea early in the morning - horse riding got me through all my exams - great stress reliever & gave you something else to focus on too 🏇 Still miss it!

Out for a shopping trip with DD today for some new clothes - welcome change to revision for a while!

I am currently paying appearance money - £10 an exam. I pay up as soon as he walks through the door in the afternoon. That and the sausage sandwiches in the morning seems to have made exams an ok thing. I am paying for grades because he was hovering at a grade boundary in a few and he didn't see the point in making any extra effort. As it is I needn't have bothered because he's got the bit between his teeth now about wanting to take an extra A/S and he needs decent grades for that but I'd made the promise several months ago, long before he found his motivation. It's around £30 for an A*, dropping down to nothing for a C. The subjects that are hardest for him (MFL, maths) are an extra tenner at all grades including C. The appearance money is an advance and gets knocked off the total at the end. There will be a meal out at the end as a reward for me not burying anyone under the patio.

I suspect that my mother will be dropping vast wads of cash on results day. She promised cash for grades for me and I went on to A the lot. She paid out what was at the time a significant sum without quibbling. It set me up nicely with new clothes for sixth form.

We are not giving cash. I'd like to actually, but dd has a horse, he's expensive and all the entry fees and training are expensive. She's getting a private lesson with a fab trainer the weekend she finishes

I should probably say that the reason I'm not paying for a C is that DS isn't predicted to get any (apart from MFL which I'm happy with seeing as Christmas it looked like being a D). It's not that Cs aren't worth having, they are, but if DS gets Cs then he's slipped from his predicted grades.

I haven't really made any plans to give dd money. I gave her £100 last year when she got an A in statistics (mainly cos I was so surprised).

When my money from my father's house comes through I am buying her a car and insuring it. That's reward enough.

In other news, I've broken my big toe which has scuppered all sorts of plans as I'm not supposed to drive.

No cash incentives here, but we contributed towards the cost of a new laptop at the beginning of the revision season and have promised to contribute towards the cost of a guitar. If he gets the grades needed for entry to A-level courses then we will buy him a couple of suits and some shirts and ties (sixth form dress code).

Yes I've promised to take her shopping for clothes for 6th form. She's very excited as there's no dress code, after years of uniform. Two new pairs of jeans and trainers and a cool backpack!

No cash incentives here, DD puts enough pressure on herself already. A set of A* predictions across the board already made get feel she was set up to fail!

Like we do for music exams we are rewarding effort. DD has earned a London trip. DS1 got cash towards something he wanted 2 years ago.

"We won't be giving cash for grades. I'd rather reward the effort than the result, so Im taking DD on a special trip somewhere she's always wanted to go after exams are over and that will be her reward."

Same here. I am taking DD to Florida. It is an after the exams and 16th birthday present combined, and a one off only.

No cash for grades here either, but there will be some special treats and possibly help towards driving lessons when dd turns 17 in the autumn.
Some of dds predictions are grade Cs although mostly Bs and actually we will be very relieved if she reaches this grade (especially in Maths) - she has had to work hard to improve this subject. Possibly harder than some subjects where she may achieve more highly than this so therefore I don't think that rewarding by grade is the way to go.

Exit - how on earth did you do that?

No cash for grades here. dd puts herself under enough pressure and I'm not going to add to it. She gets a teeny little gift at the end of each exam, sweets or a silly rubber. I'll think of something nice to do when she gets her results but we are having a 'big holiday' to celebrate the end of being at compulsory school.

I got my right toe stuck up the left leg of my trousers as I stood up, fell over and somehow managed to break my toe. I'm such a clutz.

oh ouch! (and a tiny snigger!) you poor thing. I hope it heals quickly.