Morning! Having a quick catchup
alwayshiding - lovely to hear from you - hopefully school are helpful with A Levels given your DD situation. Fingers crossed. I am amazed what some people have to cope with and the lack of support from the system.
rogue sorry to hear the results weren't as you had hoped - with a DD myself who has some MH issues, I can empathise with you. I am surprised that my DD managed to cope with exams and did all of NCS (apart from one day which was missed as she felt ill and had a busy weekend with family and time of the month) - I do wonder how these children will cope away from us.
superdoodle - good to hear that the English mix up didn't affect your DS Eng Lit grade - cant comment on regrading but is it worth the cost? Hopefully others will have experience of it or school can offer some advise.
Third - fabulous news! Hope he is very pleased with the actual grades he gets. A friend of mine - her son missed out on 1 grade to get the course of his choice - 3 x A grades but needed 1 A* at A level is really high. Makes it all a bit real for us all next week.
adrinkofwater - another Wow well done! I bet these kids don't know the stress we all feel for these exam results - I wonder what we sill all be like next week!
DD is on her last week on NCS and so far they have raised over £1000 for their chosen charity Alder Hey childrens hospital. People have been so generous - from putting spare change in their buckets to putting in £10 and £20 notes. Seems to be a lot of people have experienced the hospital in some way and are paying it back. Her leaders are really impressed with them and the hospital are coming to collect the money tomorrow - photo opportunity there!
DD was talking about the English poems debacle and she was one of the lucky ones who got the ozymandais one as a mock in class question where they developed an answer as a group - she reckons there is nothing to be done from what she has seen on line.
I cant even think about next week yet - its still 7 days away!