Morning all I'm glad we have this thread to talk. I am also a bit behind on the thread but read the tail end of our last one.
Sticker Sorry to hear about your dd. My 13 year old dd has an ex friend who now blanks her. It's hard being dumped. Stuff 'em and your dd can make some new friends.
The suggestion of the weekly planner is great, I am hoping to get ds to do this as he doesn't look at anything I do.
He has been offered a place at 6th form college...he needs to get grade 4s in Maths English and Science and he will likely exceed that. I've broken the news to him he will have to get up earlier for the bus but all good. He saw an ex teacher from his school who's moved on to teach 6th form and ds was told he can call him by his first name which felt odd to him!. He also told my ds he is a hard working student with a good brain which was great as my ds can lack confidence and processes information a bit more slowly.
It's been a really sad week at school following the sudden death of a year 11 pupil. Some of them not sleeping. My ds is sad but not affected personally...
English Lit, Maths and History mocks this week....also Chemistry homework that my ds has spent hours on and says he still can't understand, to the detriment of not revising for the English Lit tomorrow. Really stressful and frustrating. My Dad is a retired Science teacher and can explain it but ds says he doesn't understand when Grandad goes through it!