Parents of Year 11s - the end is in sight

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Hello everyone, new thread for the final push.

That's great Fantasy. My DD also thought history was fine. So glad it is all over. Taking her to get highlights this afternoon and then she is going out for pizza with her friends. Yay! Good luck to all still at it!!

marmite
It's her worst paper she always overthinks the sources never states the obvious which is good but the obvious is important. Luckily she said the purpose question was a propaganda poster so it was obvious was the purpose was

DS thought History was fine (is there any other phrase I wonder?), but that others found it hard. Said it was about employment.

Chemistry and Physics left, both of which he has chosen for A Level, so he needs to do well, an A* in both really, but especially Physics to my mind, as it's a hard subject.

Nearly there....

Yay!!!!

It's over. We can breathe again.

Not long to go now until everyone on this thread reaches the end too.

Is it too early for ?

Hooray! Congratulations Norbert, Fantasy and Marmite and any others with dcs who finished today.

DD said History was "fine" and Graphics was "not too horrendous"!

1 more to go!!! So close now!

was anyone else expecting their teen to be cheerful after the last exam, only to find out that they are really moody?! Doesn't seem to be because the exam was bad, so I guess it's exhaustion setting in and a mixture of emotions about school being over. Right, is there any wine left or have you lot drunk it all?

Dd is exactly that way chocolate. She doesn't want to admit that she's upset about leaving school but she seems very down. I think her work experience will be good because it will keep her busy.

chocolate
DD isn't chirpy either.

Go for it Norbert :)

I fully expect dd to be really flat and down next week. They've had to keep shoving their stress to one side while they get on with the job and that doesn't magically make the stress just vanish.

Also leaving school is a huge life change!

Really good points kitten - thank you.

Thanks to sillydog and fantasy too for reassuring me we're not alone. Let's hope that they all get some much needed r&r

Can someone please pass the corkscrew?

Don't think it has quite sunk in here. Out for pizza later and then tomorrow she is off to work at Glastonbury in the mud for five days.

We have all the chirpyness, if that's even a word. DS strolled out of school without looking back. There's no sense of something ending, no poignant goodbyes. I think this is because his tribe (the GCSE music group) are all moving together, he gets to see them at the sixth form taster days next week. They are all prom refusers so when they walked out after their last exam they really had done with school.

DS isn't actually leaving school. He's going back next year and his school doesn't have a separate 'sixth form' so it's much the same, albeit without some of his friends who're going to colleges closer to home.

They're having a leavers assembly anyway on the 30th so there's something even if he refuses to go to the prom.

chocolate.

Icouldbe, was it like this for your ds?

DD had herl Leavers Day today. Fancy dress. Fairground ride disco, pizza and farewell assemby. DD left at lunchtime to keep revising Physics for tomorrow.

thanks kitten
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DD would love that marmite
DD is off to Leeds and V-fest
However that said DD is really off her food lately and she is a very fussy eater as it is.

It's a bit rubbish to have the leavers day before the last exam. DS's leavers assembly is on the 30th after all the exams are done for everyone. There are a lot of people doing product design in his school but luckily not him because he'd definitely fail that due to the need to draw things.

I know. It was the same for DS1. Penalised the triple scientists and further mathematicians.

DD's leaver's day was last Monday. Her last exam was on Friday. I don't know why they do this.

They don't allow study leave until after the leaver's assembly, so maybe it is because they know they have all of the students in school. Maybe with the last few exams only the stragglers with be in school and some of the students may have already left to go on holiday.

Penultimate exam this afternoon then Statistics on Monday - nearly there! Book handing in morning next Thursday with the Prom in the evening then that's school over (apart from going in on results' day).

2 more sleeps to go!

Good Luck for any exams today!

DD is having her first lie-in of study leave! I think with only one exam left and 2 solid days to revise it, the pressure is finally off and she's started to relax

2 more sleeps!!!

Last one about to be over! I am ridiculously excited (only slightly tempered by the fact that although the stress for DS is over, DD has school exams and piano exam next week!).
Waiting for a call...

DS has come back from Edexcel Chemistry stating it was a 'piece of piss', which is descriptive for him.

He was concerned about this one, as the C7 topics were not taught well he thought, and also had the propensity to have some really tricky questions. But he said the data was all there in the paper, and the 6 markers were stupidly easy, as they contained all the information.