Finishing year 13 in 2017

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Hi all. Keep in touch with uni offers, new jobs, gap years, exams, etc. We can get through his

AQA Physics. with turning points as option, reported as being fine by DS.
Xbox in full use already!

stonecircle it does sound generally a hated paper, so who knows. Your DS could do fine.

DD said the astrophysics was fine, the practical section tougher especially the first question.

All done... locker emptied, books returned, AS certificates picked up and a friend decided to take a couple of them for a chinese lunch to belatedly celebrate a birthday.

"DD said the astrophysics was fine" .....

My, haven't they grown! How did they get to be so smart!

Well that's it, all done and dusted. Leaver form completed today and all books returned.
Ds did OCR Physics B and he didn't feel that it was too bad.
We all have the long wait for results day to look forward to now...

Is this it? The end of the road, the end of A levels?

Wow, two years gone, just like that. Here's to the next bit...

Got an email from school to say we'll be removed from the mailing list at end of term

We can all have a break and regroup for results day. Prom here tomorrow.

Yep that's it horsemad. On to the next stage

Ladies, it's been a pleasure sharing this journey with you all. Thank you

I will pop in and out through the summer

Bit anticlimactic, isn't it.

Yep!

Thank you everyone for your support. This is making me cry, but I am a bit of a dripping tap at the moment. I would love to join you on results day to see how all your dc do.

Have a wonderful summer.

Congratulations everyone for getting through Yr 13. There is so much pressure on DC (and their mums) at a point when they are, at best, trainee adults.

I hope the results go well.

The gap year has been fab, both for DD and me. She is currently working as a Counsellor in an American summer camp and having the time of her life. She is very outdoorsy, despite having grown up in Central London, so 150 acres, a lake and 60 different activities is perfect. She has been allocated the older age group so they are only a few years apart in age so presumably lots of scope for her to join in. And it has been so nice to have a year without exams.

I am not sure how easy it will be get back to studying, but longer term I think she will be pleased she took a break when she could and started University wit a bit more maturity. Overall I think the year will have been cost neutral. She earned enough to pay her own way, and got to spend 5 months in the French Alps and three months in the States. She would have had savings had she worked July - November rather than interned. But she did get to intern at a cookery school.

And dingit, well done to you and your DS for getting to the end of term, and hope the next few months are not too hard.

My thoughts are with you dingit.

Well I no longer have any DC in school! Books returned ( only one lost by DD). There's a formal do tonight so both are quite excited.

Good luck to all - look forward to catching up in August.

I hope everything goes well with your father's funeral dingit, well done to you all for holding it together this week xx

Thanks to you all for fab wise, real, and witty company since we they started GCSE's - possibly before that too?

Have a good summer and see you all half way through August if not before 🍷

We had pre prom at our house. Just picked them up from prom. Waiting to take them to after prom. Then (even though they have a lift home) I won't sleep until they're all back.

I just picked DD up in town from her Leaver's meal (kind of mini prom)
Think she had a lovely evening - and she looks so grown up.

A nice end to the week, and to the year and school life, but that still feels very odd!

DS 'slept' in a friends field last night. They had a fire, a few beers and burgers. Unfortunately, checking the weather forecast was not part of his A level courses. At 2:00a.m the rain came down, they got soaked and the fire went out so they packed up and he walked the 4 miles home.
He has just appeared in the kitchen looking for food .

Bebumba, I wish they could do an A level in common sense!
Dropped Dd off plus friends at the airport yesterday.They were a giggling gaggle of exotically dressed creatures.Hope they all appreciate the effort Dd has put in organising this holiday.
In other news Ds was cross and puzzled why he had a gas canister in his luggage .I think the teacher took it off him and returned it later.
Have a wonderful summer and relax!!!
I'm not thinking about August until the day before.
Dingit I hope you manage to have as nice a summer as possible as you must be totally exhausted.

Dd went off to the airport wearing a bright orange t shirt. She's flying easyJet...

Yesterday at work they had run out of large milk cartons to refill milk dispenser. Her boss told her to use the little individual capsules, meaning hand them to customers with their drink. But no, she was undoing each one to fill up the large dispenser. Thank goodness there is no A level in common sense

Teta - glad the canister turned up, or it would another of life's great mysteries.

Dingit - that's exactly what DD would have done.

She was due to start her new job yesterday, but someone smashed the back window of her car, so she had to wait for the AA and window repair people instead. Work were lovely and just told her to start next week.

Just surfacing from mucking out DS's room... Enough said!

He's gone on holiday today, it's very quiet here - bit of a practise for when we are Empty Nesters in Sept (if all goes to plan of course).

Dingit, that made me

I'm a very anxious flyer so I'm currently tracking the DCs' flight back to the UK. They are half-way home, having safely made it over Iran and presently flying over Turkey. Won't actually be able to relax and breathe until they are safely back home.

I laughed at Dingit's story and then thought: "Hmm, I might have done that too...."