Starting Yr11 Gcses 2020 Support Thread [Edited at OP's request]

[OrangeCinnamon]

A continuation of a Year 10 support thread
previous thread

Last thread was great and supportive as some of us tried to navigate year 10 and some very helpful peeps steered us through.

DD's Yr10 stuff is in -bulging- lever arch files per subject. They contain all work done in class, handouts, homework, end of topic tests/assesments and revision cards for said tests.
New Yr11 stuff is kept in smaller easy portal files which will be transfered to lever arch once a topic has been completed.
She also used CGP books and various internet sources for her Yr10 mocks

I've got DS the Mr Salles book for English Language; it comes recommended by those who have done the new English GCSE.

DD has a lever arch file at home for each subject, containing the notes for topics already completed. She takes smaller, lightweight files into school containing the notes for the current topic.

This is partly to reduce the weight she has to carry and partly because she is worried about losing all her notes.

@Takeittotheboss I know! The first four are due in tomorrow and then two more on Thursday
His Y10 maths teacher was rubbish, he says, so he has lots of gaps and wants me to look through the papers and help with anything he hasn't a clue about. Hopefully he's just a bit panic stricken and it'll all be fine..

Jumping massively ahead but does anyone know what the results day is in August next year?

I’m looking at holidays and DD doesn’t want to be away on results day.

20th August (DS's school has helpfully produced a key dates list)

I get the impression that doing well in English is largely exam technique (i.e. understanding exactly what you have to write to get you marks). i suspect they will be doing a lot of going through this, this year.

Tumbleton thanks have ordered one.

Red sky Hope so!
DS is not going to be happy with that results date. At least there'll be

Thank you @RedSkyLastNight. I’ll work around that date.

Wrongdissection - It's not just her 16th Party I'm bothered about - it's her attending all the others! ;-) So much distraction....
DD hasn't been/isn't revising deliberately for GCSEs, but for each test. She seems to have tests most weeks. She obviously had end of yr10 (Mock Mocks) I am sure it will happen soon enough but at the moment, she is working on each test as it comes round. Her Mocks aren't until January.

Can I just arrrrrrrrgggghhhhh Dd has a detention for 'forgetting' to do English homework already. There is a boy on the scene too ...a boy who will be 18 within the school year who she barely knows from what I can work out but spends an awful lot of time messaging him.

FFS

Orange hopefully she won't forget again in a hurry!
Re the boy, if he is Yr13 he will have to knuckle down soon if he's doing A levels or equivalent,
DD gets asked out by Yr12 and Yr13 boys. She is one of the oldest in her year and I'm not fazed by that as a summer born Yr13 is probably biologically only just over a year older.
She has lots of friends whom she initially met via SM.
I'd stalk the boy's digital footprint- I do this with DDs potential suitors much to her disgust
That way you will know he is who he is purporting to be should she want to meet up with him.

Well I’m already en route to a padded cell as expected. Had a big session on Sunday explaining the need for a revision plan, going through his books and making a timetable. 2 days in it’s gone to pot, dh and I have fallen out and he’s lost his phone. He hasn’t kept to it, has been rude and I’ve just discovered my supposedly bright grammar school boy hasn’t the foggiest how to make revision flash cards. I extracted exhibit A from him under duress. This was 4 pages of a rainforest topic in a weighty textbook summarised. WTAF!!

Yeah I can’t read it either.

Happy days. Wine anyone?

😂 warm and wet. I shouldn’t laugh but I know DD would probably come with something similarity startlingly obvious.

one
How did onelet do in hiis end of Yr10 mocks/exams?
When will he sit Yr11 mocks?

Ds1 does seem to be making a bit more effort, I think. His form tutor (MFL) left in July & the new one is computer science, so he’s able to access the online revision resources in form time.

Thanks for all the info from everyone about what their yr11 does for extra curricular activities.

DD is managing to cope with getting through the school day; she has found somewhere quiet to sit at lunchtime which is helping.

However, her anxiety levels are so high that she isn't able to focus in lessons or on her homework. She then worries that she is missing work and getting behind, which makes her more anxious...

This is going to be a long 8 months. I've told her we'll take one day at a time.

Proggy not sure. He’s in top set maths and got 86%, no idea what that is. Think he got a 7 for Physics but should be aiming for a 9 and normally gets 8s.English was nearly a 6 😩For one maybe a 7 for the other. 5 for computer science which is bad for him. Other sciences were highish but not what they should be I think. Think Spanish was a 7 which would have been good for him as not a linguist.Info kind of sporadic. Dread to think what geog and RE were. Getting blood out of a stone except for the fact that he didn’t revise much and knows he needs to sort himself out in order to get what he should. He does as little as he can get away with. Homework always done but scrappy. I can’t keep nagging but don’t want him to regret not trying his best later. He has always got away with floating along without needing to put much effort in but needs to realise that he needs to aim higher in order to achieve what he wants. He wants to do engineering at uni.

@Silverhill our local Mind has just started drop in sessions with crafts etc /talks on mindfulness for teens this term. It seems to be a big push they are doing ...I happen to know also starting lots of initiatives with older /uni students.

I wouldn't know about the sessions ordinarily so possibly not as well advertised but it could be worth a look.

Mocks in Nov.

Thank you OrangeCinnamon will look into that.
The school does run weekly mindfulness sessions - she tried one last year and said it made her feel worse, but I might encourage her to give it another go.

one given his 'revision card' and EoY results me finks he is a dark horse
The mantra in the proggymat gaff is that Yr11 mocks are 'a kick up the backside'
You're lucky said kick is in November - perhaos the rain forest revision card will come up trumps?

hi is there any other posters on here from ni doing gcse y12