GCSEs 2018 (2)

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Pre-empting our 1000th post.

loose and second Great results, well done!

Thanks, I think he knows what he needs to do on the not so great ones!
We certainly seem to have lots of revision sessions but they're usually optional.

Great set of results Loose.... hope you DD continues to relax a little more Androbbob.

Pretty pleased with DD who has worked hard over weekend with French Oral (even more so because she hates French) as well as working yesterday. Just having a bit of a dilemma in terms of she has been asked with the three other form heads to put together a video to promote the school - the girls just dont seem to have the time to do this - I've suggested that the only way they can fit this in is to miss a PSHE or Form time - timing of request is just awful but I'm adamant that DD doesn't miss any lessons to do this.

Trying to work out how many Saturdays DD can work over next 4 months...she is so far committed to work next Saturday and two Saturday's in February. She is off school for over three weeks March/April for Easter so I think she can work perhaps one in March and two in April (during Easter break) but then I think its no work until after 19/6. She's got a great little job and still only 15 so I'm keen for her to pursue the work through 6th form too but revision definitely comes first.

French Oral tomorrow at 9am (poor DD), then she's going to stay on at school with another girl to work on DT Coursework - then friendship group are having a sleepover because no school on Tuesday (whilst others finish off exams).

I'm hoping DD will start revision again in a weeks time - just 1hr a day will be fine at the start - I'm dangling a carrot because I managed to get some Hamilton Tickets for late March (which she is super keen on) - the proviso to attend is that she puts the effort in with revision.

French oral exam at 9 am on a Monday! Eek! But at least then it's out of the way...
Just in case anyone wants any practice AQA English language papers - York notes has produced one that you can get from Amazon. It has three sample paper 1s and three paper 2s, with suggested answers. It's useful just because of the lack of past papers!

Well, since final mock finished at 11.30 on Friday, DS has played golf, been to cricket training, been to more cricket training, bought new cricket kit, been to a party + played a club rugby match.
Can you tell that DH is back in charge of scheduling again???

Results coming back this week...

Over lunch yesterday, I got him to dictate thoughts on each subject (more revision on topic X, paper Y will be the most challenging, I need better notes on section Z) while the mock experience was still fresh in his mind. Can’t hurt...

Kingscote I think your DS definitely deserved that break. He sounds very similar to my DS sport mad, personally I think its a great stress reliever and I certainly shalln't be telling my DS to stop all his sport, GCSE's or no GCSEs.

Good idea to get him to talk about his mocks while they were still fresh in his mind.

I agree about the sport.

DS plays football, cricket for his age and the senior and referees football too, but they are all important for him in different ways.

Getting the balance is the key

Ooh hope you enjoy it teenmum. We are going to London for 3 days in half term & seeing it.

Dd doesn't have a job. She dances from 4-6 Monday - Friday & doesn't get home until 7.45pm & she also does 3 hours on Saturday mornings so she needs her rest.

Am busy doing huge wall chart for dgd on English language revision. ( sigh). Also lots of practise cards for the description writing. ( cutting out photos of different scenes, different weather and times etc I.e tropical beach to desolate desert to snowy mountains and rainy days nights etc.....) So she practise writing for that question 5!

DS thrilled , biology teacher took him to 1 side in his lesson to say he was 1 mark of an 8. He was predicted 5, so think teacher is pleased as well.

Maths tomorrow, physics Tuesday then all done.

Hope you enjoy your HT break and Hamilton - Alexander - we go on the 26th March just after DD breaks up for Easter. DD doesn't do drama but loves theatre productions and is madly into Starkid - I think her dad's treating her to tickets to the A Very Potter Weekend in July. We saw School of Rock a few weeks ago which was brilliant.

I think sport is great - Dd would like to join a gym (but she cant join the club near school until she's 16) there is a gym at school but DD not over keen (which I do understand she's not great at sport due to Hypermobility and mild asthma). I think she would benefit from some of the Yoga and Pilates classes.

Sostenueto- Good luck with your wall chart and Eng revision - It seems that allot of children dont back up the writing with evidence so having just the word WHY may help. Our children are normally good at asking us WHY but not supporting their own answers with such evidence.

Eve what a fantastic result for your DS, that must have been a real confidence boost!

Eve - well done to your DS - a very high 7 is great for mocks.

Eve that Biology result is really encouraging, hopefully it will motivate him to keep up the good work.

Excellent result Eve he must be so pleased!

Great result to your DC Eve!

He’s very pleased and it cost me a Chinese takeaway on Friday night as a reward! ...and who said rewards only worked for toddlers!

eve what a nice thing for him, predicted 5 and one mark off 8

I decided not to nag DD about revision this weekend, so effectively gave her the weekend off. Did some verbal German whilst having breakfast but otherwise she went to dance school, procrastinated on the internet, swooned over pictures of Johnny Depp, did a load of cooking, did her workout went to her Auntie's yesterday to spend three hours hugging her dog. Hopefully she will start revision again this week.
First taster session at first choice (incredibly hard to get into) sixth form school this afternoon, supposed to be just for current students but she phoned and asked if she could go along, so I suppose that shows she is pro-active.
Application form and personal statement written yesterday too.

No brown envelope here so they will come drop by drop. Happy day, got the results today for English Lit, Latin, Music and History all A*! And also maths a 9 based on last year gcse not Igcse. So complicated. I wish I could turn these into the real thing and be over with it ha ha.

drummers excellent results! He must be very pleased indeed. Very well deserved, too. That's a Phenomenal maths result!

Wonderful Drummer! So pleased for your DC!

drummers fab results!! Shame you can't bank mock results

drummers brilliant results - well done to your DS.

4 mocks back, Bs for Geography and Maths and A*s for Chemistry and History! Most peculiar, as he expected the Geog and Chem the other way round!

I think it is dawning on him quite how much learning slog there is for Geography...

Looking ahead, we had the A levels information meeting this evening. Great moment when the staff were bigging up the value of EPQs and one mum stuck her hand up and said that at her elder daughter’s most recent university interview, the professor had said that no one in his department rated them at all. A bit of a sticky silence ensued...