GCSEs 2019 support thread 4

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The last one is almost full!

Oh maddie
She must be devastated.
Ds1 hates eng lang and its one of his weakest subjects.

Apparently there was an error of dates and timelines in the EdExcel History paper...waiting to hear from school but DS seems pretty cool about it 🙈

She's a bit quiet so its impossible to read her. She usually talks more towards the end of the evening so might get more out of her then. She's more confident in the Germany/Elizabethan papers so I'm hoping she'll be okay.

Hope all goes well for everyone for English tomorrow.

Dd not too happy with history but it’s one of her best subjects so she has very high hopes, oh well she’s got another chance on Thursday. Apparently one of the source questions was on the bolsheviks which she had never been taught about- guessed it was something to do with the Russian revolution with the date but didn’t know much else

Please help me someone!
Edexel buisness studies tomorrow.
Ds cannot find any past papers..
Easy revision stuff .

Lats just say head ...wall !

Sorry ..should say he says he had done them all ...
Oh and dear god ds1 (A level ) has just come in to tell me his chemistry book has been printed wrong ..

• and _ wrong way round on the formular in book

How long can someone hyperventilate for !

tomorrow
eng lang - ds worst subject, and business studies which he seems quite laid back about

Hi all! Back to the grindstone...
Any ideas how to get a child to sleep through the night???? Dd has struggled to sleep the last 3 nights and last night was still awake at 1.30 sobbing and in a right old state I don't want to try anything mediciny incase she feels doped up the next morning! We've tried chamomile tea, bath before bed, lavender on her pillow, warm milk, bedtime music playing, reading old children's books, exercise during the day etc etc...am getting short of ideas and dread another broken night's sleep!
I'm hoping now they're back into exams she might relax a wee bit???? Aaaagh!
Edexcel crime and punishment was 'ok'. I think there were some random questions and she was short of time.
I'll go and read all your messages now. Hope today had been alright for all your dc!

Just dont know how to word this .but here goes..
Ds is completely spider adversion.
Spider in bathroom
I sorted it out.
Accidently threw it out ..in the toilet roll..into next door garden.

I talk to him ..and ask ifevery thing is packed for tomorrow..
"Boring voice"
"Yes ..i have packed my pencil case"

Huh...he did not take it today .

glee
If she has a clock, take it out of the room.
Checking it every 2 mins you are still awake is not conducive to a good nights sleep!
What about a hot bath and massage before bed?
An old school antihistime might help?
Poor thing :(

Which edexcel paper has the errors?

Headspace is a good app

glee, I feel your pain. DS also could not sleep a wink last night, as his thoughts were just going round in his mind. I had a long chat with him, just reassured him that he has done everything he can revision-wise and worrying and getting stressed will just make him ill. I too tried lavender on the pillow and he finally got to sleep at 4.00am. When he got home after the exam, he fell asleep, whilst revising, on his desk!

I hope your DD can get some rest tonight now that she can mentally tick another one off. I think Eng Lang is less daunting for them on a whole as there are no facts, dates, formula etc to learn by heart.

buffy no clock is an excellent idea - I have removed it! She has the Calm app, which has worked in the past but I think she's too wound up to listen to it. She currently has whale sounds playing...
She's had a bath but isn't keen on being touched so no massage! She's yawning away but still awake She also has a stinking cold so her room reeks of lavender and olbas oil!!!
Thanks for your ideas so far!

double sorry your ds is in the same boat. It's hard seeing them struggling. Dd still has 14 exams to go. I'm hoping once she gets over the half way point it won't seem such a mountain to climb.
English lang isn't a confident subject for dd, she struggles to shoehorn in all the techniques they're supposed to demonstrate. Will be glad to see the back of it!!!

Yes, I'll be glad when English is done.

glee If she has a cold would she take some paracetamol or similar? Might help?

Ds seems ok atm. Thursday is a tricky day for him...maths and history.

No answers on the sleep thing, but just to say that we are suffering from it too. DS didn't sleep well last night, but for him that wasn't such a problem as he had no exams today, so it just meant tired revision. But I can hear him upstairs now trying to exercise to get himself tired, and the fact that he is still going suggests that it is failing. He will have taken a hot shower as well.
Don't think I could extract the clock, he would be too paranoid that he wouldn't wake up on time (even though I will check he is awake as well).
He suffered from sleep issues for many years (year 8/9 he often slept very badly) but he has been much better recently. We tried everything, which is why we have a bar for lifting one's body weight in one doorway, and a set of weights and a stool (for stepping on and off) up in his room. When he was 7/8 I got some yoga/exercise videos that he used to do in the living room downstairs, in the hope of getting him to sleep, but then he decided he preferred weights and stools and crunches and the bar.

Last set of exams he actually slept really well for two nights, which meant he struggled to sleep before the maths, and he credits that with him not doing so well (relatively speaking) and making silly mistakes in the maths paper. I fear that may have set him off for this bout.

Hope both DC got a decent night in the end glee and binkom

Well, another day, another 1 ticked off!

glee Rescue Remedy? We used it with DD1 when she was doing GCSEs. Not sure whether it has anything in it, but good for placebo effect if nothing else.

And fresh air - walks etc in the evening.

gleegeek I have not got one but I have a friend with anxiety related sleep problems who swears by one of these lights to sync your breathing from Avon - it works in a similar way to one of these but much cheaper.

Well mine was philosophical about it this morning, saying "it is not the length of sleep, but the quality", and that he did have some deep sleep last night, even though it took him ages to get to sleep and he was up at odd times. The previous night he told me he barely slept. Hopefully it is enough for the English today. He says he can do English tired better than he can do maths. We will see.
Small crisis about school uniform, we can only find one shirt that even vaguely fits. He and his friends wrote on another one on the last day of term, so he can't wear that one to the exam. i said to him that I had held off buying new school shirts, as he won't need white shirts next year, but that might mean that we do in fact only have one shirt that he can possibly fit in. He has grown so much over the last year, he now towers over me. So he has gone off to school with his one, barely fitting shirt, and it might need to do the honours every day this week and next before being consigned to the dustbin.