Gcses 2019 support thread 5

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Hi :)
Hope this is ok as we are at 1000 posts on thread 4!

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Frith2013 I feel your pain re busses - I’m in the same situation- none catchment school 300 meters closer so I pay £800+ per child going up to around £1000 for the one going into year 12 for them to sit on the bus which stops outside our house.

If I sent them to the non catchment school which is 300 meters closer I would get free transport. There isn’t a school bus which runs there from our village so the council would pay for a taxi - it’s madness!!

No public transport within 3.5 miles of us so we have no choice but pay.

Wow! I thought dd’s pass price was bad enough, counting myself lucky now!

Yeah
Ds1s is £570

I’ve just double checked the cost and one is £732 and the other (post 16) £937 to go to their closest catchment school.

Anyone else's child made arrangements for results day?

Ds1 worked incredibly hard for his GCSEs and took a lot of shit from his mates over how much revision he was doing compared to them all still gaming. Ds is doing 4 A levels (further maths) so clearly wants/needs high grades.

Now all his mate's bluster and bravado seems to have disappeared and everyone is saying they are collecting their results on their own. No plans to meet up but they may all bump into each other anyway.

Ds is going for school opening time (the waiting is the killer for him) we are hoping they open the gates 10 minutes before as otherwise they will all be queuing up and down the narrow pavement. The letter from school says the hall will open at 10am. We will be waiting in the car, me, Dh who has taken the day off and Ds2 who is 13.

We are going out for breakfast before that, not sure if Ds1 will be able to eat but he still wants to go. We are planning a day at home after results to either celebrate or commiserate.

Anyone else's child going in alone?

Mine is. I need to take him as a few miles away but he wants to collect results, text me them then go and enroll for the 6th form. I don’t mind, I don’t want to ‘hover’ but still excited for him

We are taking ds1 but we can't go in with him at 9.30am.
We've booked lunch as not sure he will be up to breakfast.

I seem to be going in with DD and her friend and her friend's mum. We're planning on breakfast beforehand too.

Going with Dd at 9am and will wait in the car as need to drive her to Reading. She is quite chilled about results now, more worried about the weather:)

DS2 has decided he wants DH to drive him in (accompanied by DS1, who's been through it all before) but not me. They'll wait in the car while he gets results and then advise or accompany him into school if he wants/needs to change A level choices. I'll be waiting for that phone call/text from DH then

The letter from school isn't clear whether or not parents are even allowed on the grounds. It just says "students to collect their GCSE examination results from the hall."

But then later says that to ensure they have an informed transition from year 11 onto their "chosen pathway" a number of colleagues will be available to offer support and advice to students. Parents and carers may wish to attend the school to support their son/daughter and would be more than welcome. It then ends with we look forward to seeing you on results day, but the letter is addressed to the parent and the student.

I could understand parents not being allowed into the hall and I agree but it would be nice to be able to walk onto school grounds and wait for my son rather than the nightmare that is parking even remotely near his school (think 100 year old school on terraced house street.)

Email to child here, so no going in or not debate.

DS1 has taken to occasionally ambushing mr to ask "what I would consider to be an acceptable set of results" or "where is the that is disappointing threshold". All makes me sound like a dragon parent, but then he says he is asking because once the results come I will say they are good whatever happens, so he needs to ask now, so it seems I can't win :-)

Woke up today extremely nervous. What if she tried her best and it isn't good enough?

She wants me to walk in with her then she'll open them in the car. All I've asked of her is that she tell me if she's into 6th form...that's all I want!

We were out for dinner with the grandparents and then off on holiday on Friday. I booked it as either a celebration or a need to get away from it all. Gulp.

I'm trying very hard to not show my nerves to ds1...

DS is very nervous. I've been away for the last few days and the second I walked through the door this afternoon he started talking about results day. Then again this evening. Bless him.

He is particularly worried about having failed Maths and the Sciences. He only needs 5 passes, with a 5 in English or History and a 6 in Geog. to do the A-levels he wants, which should all be perfectly manageable, but I think panic has taken over.

He knows he didn't work as hard as he could've done and some regret is creeping in. He'll learn from that, though.

God, roll on Thursday!

Dd has told me that I will cry no matter. If grades are high or low , so she had said we need to pack tissues

Ds2s turn to worry me silly tonight...
He has his 1st residential in 2 weeks and he is SO anxious about it...
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Thank goodness we are nearly there!

Dd is walking to school to pick up her results with a few friends. She's chosen the least boastful ones and has told them she doesn't want to share results...will see how that pans out! I'll be at home waiting for a phonecall if she needs me to talk to school about anything.
She's so anxious, not sleeping etc so it'll be good to get them and move on. It's been a peculiar summer

Dd2 is in a right old state. She's already got igcse English results and got a 9 in literature and a 6 in language. You'd think the world had fallen in with the 6

Not sure how she's going to cope if results aren't as amazing as she wants (not realistic that they will be amazing, she struggled with maths and Spanish and science could go either way)

DS definitely didn't put enough work in but he seems to be one of those annoying people who can wing it. He did ok in his mocks and I said at the time that I would be happy if he replicated those results in his actuals, although I think he could do even better.

Anyway he's reasonably happy about everything except science but he doesn't want to do STEM subjects at A level so as long as he has passed (I'd prefer 5-5 rather than 4-4) it doesn't matter about the grades. Maths and geography were particularly well taught in his school and he found Maths ok (AQA) but is a bit worried everyone else did too so the grade boundaries will be very high.

Dd said she’s not been sleeping great as results day is almost here.

She’s had a few distractions recently which have taken her mind off it, but she said she’s going in first thing which is 9am as she said she probably won’t sleep the night before and she’s going to walk on her own to try and prepare for it.

Once she’s got her results hopefully good, she’s going to sign up for sixth form but she wants to open them on her own or with some friends so I’ll wait to here, her dad said he will pop home from work once she knows what she’s got them.

She did make me laugh when I said the local papers cover the schools results day, she said I better get up early and put my make up on in case I have my photo taken

DS' school isn't open for results until 10.30!

I've been very head in sand about these results, DS has sailed through school and always done very well and been considered bright. In the back of my head is the thought what if he gets too cocky and falls at the last hurdle.
I've woken up today with an Oh shit 2 days to go feeling. He has to get an 8 at least on maths to get on his A level course.
I am walking down there with him half an hour or so after they open he wants to avoid any possible assembly/talk they try and do.