GCSEs 2018 (15) The Reckoning

[mmzz]

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The next step of the all new GCSE journey.

mmzz because they have 250 year 11s to deal with first, then 250 year 10s to deal with between 12-1. There will be no staff available to mess around with results after 23rd and college enrolments start on 24th. If they don't turn up at their chosen college at the allocated enrolment time with their results envelope, they have lost their place.

Remember “that dress” optical illusion?

When DS1 did his GCSEs, the Y11s were able to collect their results from 9am and internal candidates could confirm they were accepting a place at the sixth form anytime from 9 (registration was in the same room).

From 10am, registration opened for external candidates who had met the grades for their offer (and for external pupils who hadn't been given an offer but got higher grades than expected and wanted to see if there were any places left).

DS1 was finished by 9.15 so we left. The queue of external candidates was already the length of the building and around the side.
I have no idea how they managed to collect their results so quickly. Unless they sent a parent to hold their place in the queue while they were collecting their results?

No school scrums here, as our school's don't have 6th forms. The colleges seem to enrol over 3 days from 24th onwards. If you miss your slot you simply go to your next choice of college until you arrive at the right time!

Please pretend my stray apostrophe is another optical illusion for the evening!

The local FE college (which was DS1's plan B) has its registration/induction day the day after results day, which is a bit tricky for the hundreds of applicants who will be at Reading festival.

Dd has to take her results on the first day of term. They have an induction week.

Just checking on because I'd fallen off the thread

Three weeks today people!!

We had an amazing holiday. We were very lucky to miss getting caught up in the earthquake that trapped lots of people on the volcano we trekked up a week earlier.

Back to reality now which means work for me and laying around doing nothing for dd.

Today's task for her is to tackle the box of revision notes that has been untouched since she dumped each subject in it during exam season.

How much have your dcs kept or passed on?

Welcome home, kick!

I’ve asked DS to keep the revision guides, any electronic copies of past papers or mark schemes, text books, lists of useful quotes, the TES type summaries and anything else that would be useful to DS2.
Everything should be deleted (as I’m paying for cloud storage) or binned.

How do you get rid of text books? Just gift them to the school?

Materials I paid for (textbooks not provided by school, revision guides):

• same subjects/exam boards DD or DS3 will be doing: saved for them
• unopened/unused revision guides: will sell these
• the rest has been donated to a charity taking textbooks to less economically developed countries.

Materials created by DS2: all recycled

Well we've had an eventful 24 hours, looking after a friend's terrier for two weeks whilst they are away.

Within 2 hours of him arriving he'd eaten the fish food (presumed if ok for fish must be ok for dogs!)
Whilst playing with him in the garden he managed to injury his paw, once the bleeding had stopped it looked like no real damage, a sore paw
In the evening having spent all day limping he developed diahorrea (fish food???) and so I wanted to keep him outside whilst I cleaned him up, so shut patio door, he didn't realise and went cartoon like straight into the door........I don't think he was concussed
I then get a text from friend asking how his first day went ........I said he survived!!!!
You may not believe it but I love dogs..........

DS is keeping revision guides for his a level subjects in case he needs to look up things he's forgotten. Keeping notes for physics and CS. Rest of notes have been binned (he says if he has to retake English he will start again from scratch)

I want him to take the other revision guides in to school in case anyone else can use them but he's reluctant - would charity shops want them ? any ideas ?

On no @BlueBelle123 ! We're about to go on holiday and are leaving our terrier with PIL. I rather suspect he will give them the literal run around but I'm so grateful to them that I would completely understand any mishaps. They are, I am afraid, pretty standard with terriers.

Be sure to keep expensive sandals out of his reach. I have lost two pairs this summer.

BlueBelle123 that sounds high maintenance!

Bluebelle that sounds like it's going to be an eventful 2 weeks!! He sounds bonkers but cute.
I'd take revision guides to charity shop - if heavily written in they're basically only fit for recycling, though.
I'm holding on to books for DS2. One enterprising friend of DS was trying to sell his revision notes to his brother but not surprisingly didn't get far with that idea!
DS does need to sort out his stuff - I may leave that project to the weekend, though!

My friend uses Ziffit.com phone app to sell books. You just scan the barcode and it gives you a price. Once you've got £10/worth they'll collect them from you if you box them up. Recent revision guides are definitely wanted.

Charity shop book shops would love them as well. Only recent 9-1 style ones, but we've got mostly those.

Ooo, I didn't realise that would create a link!

It seems to me that there's an opportunity for the PTA here to sell used, but still current books and revision guides. It would raise some funds for the school and help next year's students.

DD has only so far cleared the stack of past papers. I have kept the science and maths papers that she didn't get round to doing for DS. Will try and see what boards he might end up doing but it may change all by then. Will need to sit with DD to help her organise. She is a procrastinator.

Not sure about the revision guides. DD didn't really use them and they are like new plus I bought the gcse ones instead of the igcse ones. Will see what might be useful for DS but may sell or donate the others.

DD is getting bored and wish actually there was some work for her to do in the holidays but School hasn't given any. She has thought about starting her EPQ but given that we have had no guidance yet on how to even start these need to help her. Maybe will ask her to pull some ideas together for possible topics - she has lots of ideas just hasn't put them down on paper.

We haven't really had a proper holiday this year for various reasons but hoping to get away for a few days in the UK before results day.

slinkyme hold onto mark schemes for any papers.

For some reason, DS had several papers to sit that the mark scheme was missing for, or which turned up much later. I think its because the school got the papers for a low cost/ only the cost of printing but students to pay for the mark scheme privately.

Good idea mmzz will try and get these.

Finally had a chance to get DD to get out the letter from the school Re results. So it looks like we have 3 significant dates.

14th after 6am when we can log in and get any results for Cambridge exams.

16th- when we can get Add Maths results after 11am from school (but not online). They will be posted out if not collected

23rd - rest of the results online in the morning and at school

So basically we could get everything online without going into school (except Add Maths)

DD is being difficult and saying she won't look at the results until she has all of them together on the 23rd. I really hope that is not the case. I imagine they will all start discussing the results and then maybe she will be tempted to see them. Me I was hoping to have the alarm set for 5:58 to log in at 6:01. I think I am a bit over invested

I dont think DD will have much time to think about results she's back off holiday on Sunday and then away with NCS Monday which is quite nice - now doubt the nerves will surface on the 20th...

I know this has been talked about before, but I wasn't really concentrating! For DS's 6th form they have to wear a suit. Where to people suggest getting one from? Also does it work washing washable ones? I can't think that we'll have to get it dry cleaned all the time, but a friend with an older DS who went to the school assures me that dry cleaning is the only way. I'm just too stingy for that though!

I like Marks and Spencer’s suits or you could even look at George at Asda suits if you don’t want to pay too much for them.