GCSEs 2018 (3)

[mmzz]

Following on from:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/3113917-GCSEs-2018-2

Teenmum if your able why not do both! theatre for Birthday and then spa day for the two of you post exams I'm sure you would both be in need of some pampering!!

to all who are suffering with flu and illness

Here's prom dress dgd wants

DS's school sent the exam timetable to the parents for checking (and subsequently. I found several mistakes). If your DC's school didn't do that, then maybe they gave more confidence in their ability to error check it themselves?

By the way, the dresses are beautiful. I'm having to pinch myself that these are girls who are DS's age!
I'm still struggling with convincing DS that's basic grooming is not optional!

That’s lovely sostenuto.

Thanks Alexander

I won £125 on lottery on Saturday and that's plenty for dress and shoes. Just can't decide between silver or gold for shoes and jewelry. Dress ordered should be here by end of week. Hopefully one worry out of the way! Checked exam timetable again! All OK.

Some really beautiful dresses on this thread.

Just told DD that I was taking DH to the dentist to get his tooth repaired and asked if she was going to start her homework/revision and got an eye roll... She has more mocks after half term (core subjects only)...

Mmzz I'm with you on the personal grooming for DS! All the talk of proms seems quite alien when you have a child that needs to be reminded to wash his hair!

Not much revision happening this week. Had to hide the PS4 controllers today after being tipped off by DD that DS had spent most of yesterday in his PJs on the PS4.

DD is at home "revising" - this possibly translates as looking at pictures of Johnny Depp on the internet.
Second lot of mocks after half term - apparently November were "Mock Mocks?!!!"

ha Ha jufus Jonny Depp is rather nice (prefer Daniel Craig myself), my DD is revising by looking at beauty products on the internet (this is the the DD who used to play footballl and protested when I suggested she wore a hair band to play.,. How she has changed!) and I bought revision books, why?

Its like getting blood out of a stone when I ask dgd whose now home with her DM who has 2 days off work, if she has done revision today as she is scheduled to do math and geography. A grunt over phone that might indicate that she has done said revision or not done revision. I had dgd for 4 days and only managed to get her revising a few hours over entire time.

Hello GCSE mums , have a look at edunow.co.uk
It’s a site with revision notes from my son and friends - the ones they themselves would have liked to have had .they won an award with it , have a look !

Attached my favourite prom dress of all times...

Sorry for delayed responses...
loose on the issue of industry needing creative minds in the future, yes, absolutely. They keep repeating that at DS' school.
sostenuto I will think of you when we need a cornetist and on the subject of maths, DS teacher said that in order to get a 9 you had to score 90 or over on BOTH papers. True? I was rather shocked.
mmzz I believe everyone is creative. It's in our genes. If you were suddenly stranded in a desert island and had very little resources to feed and care for your DS you would suddenly become very creative, I can assure you. I have never met a non-creative child. But I believe it gets squeezed out of people by square, non imaginative education systems and by having to attend to life and its practicalities. I also believe contemporary life inundates us with information and creations from other sources through the media and internet. This, paradoxically, makes everyone less creative (and I am in the creative-arts industry). Humans need scarcity to be creative, they need boredom, they need obstacles. If we have all the entertainment we need at the touch of a button, why would we need to make any effort.

Drummersmum........yep 90% on total of 3 papers dgd told for math. So you would have to get 90% or over on combined papers scores.

Scrub that don't think that is right drummer.

I Feel pretty..... oh so pretty....

@drummersmum - I'm tone deaf - for example, I have never been able to clap in time to the music! - and feel really stressed when having to choose design elements. For example, if collaborating on building a website, when I have to do something like pick website colours or decide on the size and position of a text box on a page, I just stare blankly at the problem before deciding to plagiarise someone else's colour ideas and apply the golden ratio (I like algorithms that i can follow). I can do maths though and have no trouble using logic to find the key drivers and put together an optimised plan.

I think maybe you are falling victim to the same thing that gets me sometimes i.e. thinking that some things are so blatantly obvious that it is hard to imagine anyone struggling with them and impossible to imagine not being able to do it all. I wish I could be creative, but I really can't. It is just like a massive blind spot and the more I stare into it, the more it overwhelms me.

Don't worry mmzz my dgd just like you!
Her DM did graphic design ( I was told I was too 'arty' for that) and I'm a musician who wishes she had been allowed to do art as a career so you can see why we as creative people find it so difficult to understand DgD who is not creative at all( she only chose art as an easy GCSE now finding its not easy!)

Just had a very shouty, teary DD, apparently I’m on her back all the time regarding her GCSEs and her life in general. So I really am the worse mum, don’t understand her, say and do all the wrong things. she reduced me to tears and I needed to go and get some air..

Another non creative person here too......I'm the logical and analytical
person.... DD's very logical (although doesn't put this into practice in terms of revising = good grades). She's also creative but in a quirky way hence why she's good at DT.
Dd managed some Biology revision today - but whether it was effective - who knows - flash cards laid over dining table ...think she has forgotten that the tickets to Hamilton were on the basis that she revised for exams and probably needs a gentle reminder.

Its the stress of the exams teenmum and revision is oh so boring! The thought of all that revision stretched in front of the dc makes them even more stressed. There's no way to make revision fun, its winter, and they are tired and bored and want fun which they can't have. And they are so so worried about those exams............

Oddsocks - I had that scenario last week after parents evening ...complete meltdown I just wish that they could understand that we keep reminding them because we care - but I guess it doesn't come over that way. Deep breath its going to be a long 3/4 months !

@Oddsocks15 I doubt this will make you feel much better, but in five years time, your DD will have completely forgotten that there ever was such tension and she'll be back to being the daughter you thought you knew before she hit puberty. Just hold tight and wait for her to grow out of this phase.

Apparently, its something to do with evolution that make the next the young want to fly the nest by finding things to dislike about it because if they saw their home for the haven it is, they'd never want to leave (and they have to leave or they won't complete the transition into adulthood)