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GCSE’s summer 2020 thread 5 - And then there were none..

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FoolsAssassin · 26/03/2020 15:07

Once upon a time there was a group of year 11 students who had spent the last few years preparing to sit their GCSE exams in the summer of 2020. Then one day they woke up and found themselves as characters in a real life disaster movie and as if by magic the exams disappeared.

What lies next for the Corona Cohort?!

Thread 4
Thread 3
Thread 2
Thread 1 (Year 10)

Anyone lurking please feel free to jump on in .

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RoiseCap · 08/06/2020 23:26

Like @Comefromaway DD2 was supposed to have a show at the end of March but it's been postponed to Autumn. DD3's diving competitions (including her favourite) and DD1's rowing events (also including her favourite) have all been postponed until then at the earliest too.

ExpletiveDelighted · 08/06/2020 23:53

I lost this thread. We have a competitive swimmer fed up with land training and a football and hockey player. Football have been doing some coaching by zoom, hockey have started planning to get on the pitch again but segregated into pairs or family groups only.

DS's school have told them their results will be released onto the school portal and that they can come in if they need to change track based on the results, but only core staff will be in, so it will be very low key compared to previous years. DS is a borderline 4 in English so we are nervous. He may have to resit that in November but hopefully nothing else. He is feeling a bit down now thinking that they should be celebrating the end of exams and having fun stuff planned for afterwards. We have booked a UK week away for the week before results day in the hopes of taking all
our minds off it all.

OrangeCinnamon · 11/06/2020 13:06

DD is over the moon that we can form a bubble with widowed MIL ...she has been dropping off food with DH and having chats in garden , so news is timely given the weather. They are making plans via whatsapp and she is packing her bags right now for a sleepover
Anyone else?
Got two weeks leave in July won't be able to go on our planned spanish hol...thinking about renting a local cottage just for a change of scenery pref walking distance to a beach ...we gave credit from our planned easter trip. Am I bonkers?

OrangeCinnamon · 11/06/2020 13:07

@OrangeCinnamon

Anyone else? Got two weeks leave in July won't be able to go on our planned spanish hol...thinking about renting a local cottage just for a change of scenery pref walking distance to a beach ...we gave credit from our planned easter trip. Am I bonkers?

Have not *gave

Zandathepanda · 11/06/2020 14:21

That’s lovely news x

RoiseCap · 11/06/2020 21:31

@OrangeCinnamon your DD sounds lovely! How nice for your MIL.

Zandathepanda · 12/06/2020 10:47

Just looked on the calendar and I had drawn a little party hat as it was supposed to be the last GCSE exam today for Dd.

No idea what she’s going to ‘get’ but anyone want to join me in saying ‘cheers in trying to be indifferent!?’

Monkey2001 · 12/06/2020 11:25

Haha, yes, end of exams here too . How different the world has been from what we expected a few months ago. Just hope next term is not as badly affected as some people fear it will be. I think on the whole that being in Y11 has been much less bad than being in Y10 or Y12 so far.

MirandaWest · 12/06/2020 11:50

Should have been the last day here too - DS's exams would have finished with Physics.

I think Year 11 has been better than being year 10 or year 12. My daughter is a September birthday Year 9 and I've been feeling glad she wasn't born a few weeks earlier.

crazycrofter · 12/06/2020 11:50

Yes, dd would have finished on Wednesday! I really hope things will be much better in another 12 weeks and sixth form can start normally. That would be amazing!

I agree, I think the year 11s have come out of this quite well really, it must be hard for years 10 and 12. Ds is year 9 and has started GCSE courses in quite a few subjects but hopefully he’ll have time to catch up - depending on how next year looks.

Fiddlersgreen · 12/06/2020 11:57

Today would have been last exam here too.
I made DS put his blazer on for a photo, was hilarious with his long lockdown hair!

When we went into lockdown exams still felt so far away and now here we are at what would have been the end of them. DS has waited 2.5 months for his passport so he could get a supermarket job and now none of them are looking for staff!

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FoolsAssassin · 12/06/2020 11:58

We’ve been saying that about year 10.
DS’s provisional license has just arrived.

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Decorhate · 12/06/2020 13:54

Until I saw it in here I totally overlooked that Ds would have been finishing up today too! He should have been going off on a trip with his sports team next week.

RedskyAtnight · 12/06/2020 15:11

DS would also have been finishing today! Funny how GCSEs were all consuming and seem so remote at the moment.

Alsoplayspiccolo · 12/06/2020 17:42

DD would have finished exams today too.
It feels...odd.
I wonder how anticlimactic it might have felt if they’d actually sat the exams? Or maybe it would have been a huge relief and party time?

Anyway, to the exams that never were. Hopefully, we’ll look back one day and be able to have a chuckle about it all.

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FoolsAssassin · 12/06/2020 17:58

I never even got a timetable for them.

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Shimy · 12/06/2020 18:16

Cheers!, @ZandathePanda
OP thanks for reminding me to get DS to apply for his PS, also we never got a timetable either. I think they were just checking it to see if there were any clashes well the whole show fell apart. I do however, have a diary entry for 20th August from last year that says ‘results day, rejoicing day!’ .
Re: resits, DS plans to resit Maths if he doesn’t get a 7 as that’s the requirement for the course at the university he really wants to apply to.

AnneOfCleavage · 12/06/2020 19:08

So surreal thinking how different today would have been. DD probably would be celebrating with friends or we'd have gone out for a meal. Physics paper 2 here too for DD today had it gone ahead.

She's just shrugged when I told her she would have had physics today whereas a couple of weeks ago she was all "Oh wow really".

It's weird how she's adapted to sleeping in til late morning and sometimes not getting dressed all day. September is going to be a shock. I'm pretty certain she'll be going back then as her 6th form is c. 50 students in total so classes of 2-4 especially in subjects that DD is taking. She's nearly finished the A level work she's been set over the exam period as well as extra maths per week that they encourage them to complete. Hopefully a break will be in order before her A level summer work gets set.

She's been asked to apply for a senior leadership role (like a prefect but for 6th formers but to oversee the whole school cohort). It looks quite involved so I wonder if it may be too much with A levels. She wants to apply though and is honoured to have been chosen to apply.

Had a phone call from the pastoral head for year 11 so I've been impressed by how they've been keeping in touch and interested in their wellbeing. It was good to get some queries answered too.

On another note we would have been going to a wedding tomorrow and in a couple of weeks too so such a shame.

Will there be a new thread as just realised this one has nearly filled up

ProggyMat · 12/06/2020 19:18

DDs last exam would have been next Thursday- Further Maths
In ‘normal circumstances’ she’d now be in a field somewhere with the rest of the Yr11 cohort armed with the delights of Echo Falls
Every cloud ...

20Newnames · 12/06/2020 20:24

Haha, DS would also have been finishing with further maths next Thursday but would have been celebrating with most of his friends tonight. In fact he did say this pandemic was bad timing as he should be pissed in a field somewhere

He does have a few friends round social distancing with a few beers in the garden though so it’s not all bad. It is lovely to hear them laugh.

Monkey2001 · 12/06/2020 20:47

DS2's school don't teach Further Maths but he wants to do double maths at A level, so DS1 has been teaching him. Their plan was for DS2 to sit the 2019 papers on Thursday as an internal exam so DS1 can see how successful his teaching was, but I have not been able to find the 2019 paper - will have to use an older one. So that will be his 1 day exam season.

Too much rain here for post exam outdoor gatherings even if they were allowed.

Zandathepanda · 12/06/2020 20:49

Ah yes the random field thing. Forgot about that. Usually gets stopped about 2am with a police raid on drugs!
Happy days (?!)

PaddingtonPaddington · 12/06/2020 20:56

It would have been DDs last GCSE exam today too and her prom this evening. Like others it seems surreal. We had an email from the school today mainly about wellbeing but also mentioning it would have been the last day and prom and wishing pupils well etc. The email also said they didn’t know the exact arrangements for the release of grades but they’d be in touch nearer the time.

OrangeCinnamon · 14/06/2020 15:40

Prom would have been next week for us. I am slightly worried ...to me she looks smaller than when we bought the dress in October...she just hasn't grown for about three years upwards or outwards. Eating is not an issue as she is a total carb addict.

Wheresthebeach · 15/06/2020 15:12

Its definitely an odd feeling. All done now.

DD finding it difficult to know that her teachers have put in grades, but she can’t see them. Waiting til August 20th seems a long time when papers aren’t being marked. Its just so...odd.

End of the week the final nail in the coffin for sports was hammered in, no Euro’s.

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