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A thread for parents of dcs who are repeating year 12

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Showandtell · 03/09/2017 08:15

Are there any? Dd got DUE in her ASs - Philosophy, History and Biology. She is repeating year 12 - carrying on with philosophy and Ethics and taking PE A level (which she's really looking forward to!) and BTEC Health (equivalent to one A level). She has extra time in exams for slow processing and tends to chuck in everything she knows whether it's relevant or not!

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Allthebestnamesareused · 03/09/2017 14:22

My son repeated year 12 after a DUDE and ended up with CCD and went to uni and got a 2.1 in B Sc. (Hons) Sports and Exercise Science, and then on to a graduate trainee programme (where the degree didn't matter just the grade!). So repeating can be a great way of moving forward.

With the "chuck everything in" approach she will be doing herself a disservice. Perhaps get her to look at old papers and ask her to tell you what they are asking; For example, get her to underline what they are asking?

EG. Why? How? Then make her do bullet point plans for an answer that answers why or how (or whatever was asked) before writing her throw it all in answer. Get her to always put a conclusion too.

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Showandtell · 03/09/2017 14:39

Thank you allthebest. I am so glad it worked out well for your son. I definitely think sport is the way to go for her as she does so much out of school. Great essay tips, thank you.

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Northernsoul58 · 03/09/2017 15:17

Great thread, thanks OP.
I'm interested to know if any DCs stayed at their current school/college, or began in a different place. What is the emotional impact of being in the year below your friends?

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Showandtell · 03/09/2017 17:44

I'll let you know! Dd has decided to stay at school and I can't help thinking it will be very weird when her mates leave. However, she is good friends with some current year 11s (about to be year 12). She was adamant she didn't want to go to college (despite my nagging feeling a full two year BTEC sports course being better for her).

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Allthebestnamesareused · 03/09/2017 18:14

Yes my son stayed at his existing school with his friends moving up a year and him staying down. Entirely his decision and one I am proud he made.

LoniceraJaponica · 03/09/2017 18:18

My niece redid year 12 and ended up with 4 A levels. 2 As and 2 Bs I think. She got a 2.1 in zoology at a Russell group university.

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Showandtell · 03/09/2017 19:56

I love all these positive stories. Thank you!

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Showandtell · 05/09/2017 22:03

Well, she enrolled back at school today. She wanted me to go in with her. We were there for ages talking to all the teachers who were all encouraging and really helpful. They did say she was a bit of a party girl and needed to work really hard this year. When we got home I gave her a strict talking to and about 10 minutes later she had a panic attack

I am worried this is going to make her hate school.

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Romain · 06/09/2017 19:00

Hi my Ds is restarting. This time at college rather than school. Got CUE last year. His old school would have kept him and allowed retakes but he hated it. Starts college next week and says he is looking forwards to a fresh start. Hoping it works out.

ArbitraryName · 06/09/2017 19:13

DS2 is repeating year 12. Well he's gone to FE rather than 6th form but it's the same thing. He got EEU in his ASes at his utterly failing school (which got an inadequate ofsted just after he sat the exams). He's resitting GCSE English again (only 10% of people in his school managed to pass GCSE English and no one resitting did). His school wouldn't let him continue but who would want to. Apparently only 4 GCSE students got good enough grades for even their own 6th form. Fewer than 10 AS students got good enough grades to continue.

So he's gone to college to do a BTEC in software development. The college are being great so far. They're assessing him for dyslexia and ASD, and generally seem to know what they're doing.

Romain · 06/09/2017 19:56

Hi arbitrary. How did you approach the college re ASD. It something at the back of our minds as well as ADHD. At the moment Ds is resistant to being assessed.

ArbitraryName · 06/09/2017 19:59

I emailed the college student support people about it. His school had been utterly useless and we'd decided that we'll go private if the college weren't on it immediately. But the college seem keen to find out what's going on so they can put as much support in place as they can.

FayKnights · 06/09/2017 20:09

Ds1 is retaking, he got DUU, the D was in a subject where he got an A for his coursework and his work is on display in the department as an exemplar
Have asked the school to the look into that one. But the other 2 were totally bombed, so he is retaking totally new subjects and seems much happier.

Romain · 06/09/2017 21:27

Arbitrary thanks. Think we must get onto it.

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Showandtell · 07/09/2017 14:42

Hi all! She's started back and yesterday she was pretty low and depressed when she got home. Hopefully she'll feel a bit better today.

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crunchtime · 09/09/2017 12:29

crunchtime · 09/09/2017 12:32

ds is starting year 12 again at a different sixthform college. He was predicted bs in his a/s levels and came out with DEUU and school said he couldn't come back for year 13.
he was devastated to be honest but now he has got a place at the sixth form college and has been for his induction he seems a lot happier.
he is going to redo physics and history and drop maths for a different subject.

i have warned him that this is crunchtime-he really needs to pull his finger out and get the grades this this time.
he was really sad earlier today throwing away all the university prospectuses that he had collected at open days.

Romain · 11/09/2017 08:10

First day at the new college today. Hope all goes well and he finds his mojo this year. We have been leaving things mostly to him to sort out but it's hard.

crunchtime · 11/09/2017 17:51

yes first day here too.
I am going for the opposite approach to you and am being the study ogre!

ArbitraryName · 12/09/2017 19:20

It was DS1's first day today. He had his dyslexia screening which came back with a strong likelihood that he's dyslexic. Extremely high verbal and nonverbal reasoning but incredibly poor word building and problems with word recognition too apparently. So they've referred him to a psychologist who'll assess him formally and also for ASD. The college only need the screening to put measures in place though. So now he has access to a learning support room and team to help with his homework/coursework whenever he needs it.

He's feeling quite positive (although it's hard to tell since he's 17 and even more blank faced than your average 17 year old). I think he'd started to believe he was just really stupid so he was surprised that he scored really highly on the reasoning tests (the woman told him it was the highest score she'd seen for that - which probably isn't quite true but made him feel great). He's now feeling that maybe its not him but that he hasn't been taught English appropriately over the last decade (since we moved to England I think). So that's helpful since he's got to resit it again. 4th time lucky (I hope).

I got absolutely no information out of him about his actual classes though. I only know about the screening because he was amazed and had a printed report to show me.

follybodger · 12/09/2017 21:55

DD is repeating 2 subjects this year at the same school and doing year 13 in the other. Caused so much upset as her timetable is not even close to her very sparse friendship circle. For a child suffering suicidal thoughts this has hit her hard especially as the only reason she failed so badly on end of year exams was due to medication messing with her ability to focus.

So far all 4 year 12 teachers are asking her not to participate in lessons and to sit quietly in the room as she knows the subject matter perfectly well. It's incredibly frustrating for her and feels her doctor/tutors/professionals have done her an injustice. But it's too late to go into all year 13 subjects

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