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Year 11 support thread

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pasanda · 10/02/2017 09:37

I can't find a new thread, moving on from the old full one, so I thought I would create one (please tell me if I'm wrong!)

Last night ds stayed up till 4.30am doing his biology coursework Shock

This time the tsunami affect didn't work and he left it far too late to do a reasonable job. Which is a bloody shame because he wants to do biology A level and he has done so well in his other controlled assessments.

I wait with bated breath to find out his mark

Oh well, thank God for half term!!

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ifonly4 · 15/05/2017 18:20

possum, tell her to hang in there. She might have got points across the others brushed over. She can learn from this for all her other exams.

pasanda, DD didn't go in either, study leave is after half term. Phoned attendance officer and explained why, emailed HOY also. I agreed under certain circumstances and I'll give it to her she's been working solid since 7.45am with minimal breaks. She wants an early night as revision session planned at school for French before 9am start, and I've told her she needs to relax beforehand. Rumours are flying around half of the year didn't go in, the school are worried about attendance (hence the reason they are still in school) and trying to work something out!

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GiraffeorOcelot · 15/05/2017 20:39

Sorry to hear your DD found RS difficult possum, it's difficult if she knew the answers but couldn't get them down.

DS is shattered. He hasn't had an exam today but came home from school knackered. He did a last B1 paper and got B1 finished on Tassomai. We have told him to chill now and have an early night. He is currently in the bath playing dodgy music very loudly!

We gave him the good luck card, he seemed to really appreciate it. Also told him that we're proud of his efforts and that I will take him away for a few days on his own after the exams. He was very happy so we're currently wondering where to go Smile

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2017 20:41

Drayton- are the art rooms at school
open early? Could he go in and do it first thing?

DrMadelineMaxwell · 15/05/2017 20:46

DD is happy with how her RS went today. (If that's what 'It was alright' translates as).

She's forecast an A and was strict with herself over the timings of the questions.

Biology tomorrow. She says she feels overprepared. And is now questioning whether there's actually something she doesn't get as it seems too simple. She understands it all, so somewhere something must be wrong. I reassured her that she has spent so long working hard that it could just be that she's completely prepared. Tomorrow will tell.

Then another exam on Thurs and that's it for this week. She did half of each of the sciences in Jan so has fewer exams than some for them.

errorofjudgement · 15/05/2017 20:53

DD sat the 2 OCR Ethics papers this morning. She says there were some tricky longer questions, and the time went very quickly!
I'm pleased that she went to her usual dance class this evening, came away a bit early so missed the final class, but I think (hope) she's done a lot of revision for the Biology exam she has tomorrow.
My biggest concern is the exams next week. I know DD has been splitting her time to cover both weeks exams over the last week or so, but understandably she is concentrating on this weeks exams. However, next week she has a very heavy workload :(

Sprog19 · 15/05/2017 22:18

DS1 said Law went well - questions went his way. He's revised some biology with DH tonight and seems pretty happy, even though his brother ( who's autistic and unwell, not a good combo) had a meltdown in the car and scratched him on the arm. He ate his dinner wearing plastic gloves to avoid germs and I have insisted he only talks to me at a distance! Fingers crossed he'll stay well.

GiraffeorOcelot · 15/05/2017 22:51

Anyone else got a wide awake teen?? 😬

Am now making him hot chocolate and hoping to ship him off to bed...again!

Laniakea · 15/05/2017 23:15

yup, dd is in bed but reading Harry Potter, no sign of sleep Hmm

GiraffeorOcelot · 15/05/2017 23:57

DS still awake...

Laniakea · 16/05/2017 08:50

dd thinks she got to sleep at about midnight. She was monosyllabic this morning so I think she's pretty nervous. Dh drove her into school to avoid potential train crises, she should be going into French about now & will be staying in all day for biology this afternoon.

Creative writing tomorrow which you can't really revise for so I expect the next couple of days are going to be revising for chemistry on Thursday. I think next week is pretty bad with both English lits & the dreaded maths P1 on top of geography & physics.

Lots of luck to everyone doing exams today!

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pasanda · 16/05/2017 08:56

Good luck to her Laniakea I hope the lack of sleep doesn't affect her too badly.

DS having another day off today. He gets so much more done at home (which is something I never thought I would say!!) I am just about to call the school and leave another message about stress and anxiety keeping him off! I am sure I am not the only one...

I am also quite enjoying marking the past papers he is doing for Business Studies Grin They are multiple choice so easy for me. The other thing that is helping is reading the examiners report so we can analyse where he went wrong. Every little helps!

Good luck to everyone today.

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pasanda · 16/05/2017 08:57

Giraffe - I hope your ds finally got to sleep at a reasonable hour. I'm knackered just thinking about everything they have to do over the coming weeks and that's just me!!

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LIZS · 16/05/2017 09:03

French here too this morning. She has arranged to see her drama teacher for a revision session this afternoon.

GiraffeorOcelot · 16/05/2017 09:03

Not sure when DS got to sleep, he is still zonked now so have phoned school and left a message to say he'll definitely be in in good time for the exam this pm but I am leaving him in bed for now.

I plan to wake him at 10.30-11 with a good breakfast and perhaps spend a final 30 mins with him going over the basics. He did a final B1 paper last night and got a grade lower than usual, I think because he was so shattered (he fell asleep straight afterwards) so I think a couple of extra hours sleep now will hopefully pay off. 🤞

No study leave here and I think generally it's a good thing. However I am aware that some parents are calling their kids in sick so you're not alone. DS wouldn't work as well at home as at school generally though so for us I prefer him to go in.

I hope he doesn't think he can go in late every day now!!

Fleurdelise · 16/05/2017 09:40

No study leave here so DS is expected in school as per his normal schedule from now till 16th June which I am grateful for as it suits him best, he finds it hard to self motivate.

He's in his French exam now and biology this afternoon, made him pancakes this morning and he seemed ok.

Good luck to all dcs taking the exams today.

Sprog19 · 16/05/2017 09:56

DS is very self motivated and although he hasn't moaned about going into school ( and I assumed he'd want to, to see friends and GF) he said this morning that there are certain subjects he thinks he'd revise better for at home. So think we may be doing a bit of judicious phoning from time to time.

PossumInAPearTree · 16/05/2017 10:11

Dd hasn't got study leave either. She wants to stay home tomorrow as she feels she will get more revision done for the chemistry exam on Thursday if she is at home. I'm inclined to let her. I will be home all day so can ensure she does actually work.

Laniakea · 16/05/2017 10:12

at dd's they have the choice, study leave or go into lessons as normal where they can either work with the teacher or revise. DD will be mixing & matching depending on what lessons & teachers there are - I think there are 3 or 4 days when she wants to go in. They just have to remember to sign in & out so school know where they are.

Quadratilla · 16/05/2017 10:25

Good luck all.
DD is on study leave. We have been out for breakfast this morning and she's currently washing her hair. She's got Biology this afternoon. I panicked and bought roll on aromatherapy stuff and an aromatherapy diffuser to fill the house with calming/mentally stimulating aromas as appropriate. She used the roll on sleep one last night and had a good night until DH woke her at 6.45 this morning thinking she had an exam first thing Confused. She seems icily calm now, Obviously I feel sick.

ifonly4 · 16/05/2017 11:14

pasanda - mine didn't go in yesterday either - one of her friends says there were an awful lot of them out yesterday and the school are worried about attendance levels (hence the reason they're still in school until half term here). She did get an awful lot done yesterday, so I'm happy with that, I'm sure the school aren't!

PossumInAPearTree, I wasn't sure about letting my DD have the day of, but as I said above, she did get down to it, 7.45am and just breaks for toilet, music practice (has Grade 8 exam approaching), snack and a bit of time at lunchtime for lunch and chatting to a friend (fair enough, she'd have a break at school).

DD got off to a great start today. A French revision session was planned for 8am, she didn't leave the house until then! Anyway, French is now done, so that's one down. Biology this afternoon and then an RE revision session after school which she'll attend as she wants to do well in that.

Hope it goes okay for all of them today.

GiraffeorOcelot · 16/05/2017 11:32

DS is now at school. He woke in a panic at 9, I told him to go back to sleep until 10 when I woke him with bagels and a mocha. He's had a shower and we spent 20 minutes going over last night's B1 paper together. He's now in maths class as he was anxious to get there for that. After a pep talk of "you'll be ok, just read the question and spell out the answer" (he can sometimes miss out marks but not stating the obvious and going straight to the complicated bits), he seems to be ok now and is worried he is too calm!

namechange7711 · 16/05/2017 12:11

DS2 is also doing the French / Biology combination today. I took him to school this morning so I know he was there for the French exam, but now I'm pacing around desperately hoping that he:

(1) remembers to go to his Biology exam this afternoon
(2) goes at the right time
(3) brings the right kit with him
(4) doesn't bring anything into the room which he's not supposed to, like revision notes or a book Hmm

He has really bad Developmental Coordination Disorder (dyspraxia) so these worries are very genuine. His Tourettes has come back too (stress-related I guess) so I'm really hoping he can keep that under control in the exam room.

And don't even get me started on DS1 who is also doing an exam this afternoon and is, if anything, even more of a worry Shock

Might need to crack open the Wine Gin Wine just to keep me going!! Is it too early for a drink? Grin

Steggers123 · 16/05/2017 12:49

Namechange, dcd Ds here too and I'm worrying about exactly the same things you are! He was in a flap this morning worrying because he didn't know where to go for his French exam. He text me afterwards and the exam was really difficult, they all struggled with it Sad Hopefully biology will go better.

namechange7711 · 16/05/2017 12:59

Glad it's not just me in a flap, Steggers. You're brave letting him have a phone on him though - there's no way I could trust mine with one on an exam day!

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