Anyone else's DC still working for GCSEs?

[Starlilly88]

My DD has been told by her school to still revise and work over the holidays, just in case the school decides to set them further work or tests in early May. Exam boards said no further work needed and my DD is now uncertain about further work. Anyone else been told to keep working? Poor child needs a break!

@kendem87 that sounds appalling. I would be complaining to the school in that situation (and I’m not one ever given to complaining!). Not so much for your own dc necessarily but how on earth are the school going to justify that approach when they will presumably have a whole range of differing personal circumstances to deal with?

I know Ofqual haven’t spelt it out as clearly as they could have done - but they have been clear that no student can be disadvantaged by not being able to complete work at home. So those tutor threats are in direct defiance of that at the very least.

Yes, but working ‘at’ ticking over her GCSE subjects not ‘for’ grades as her school is not asking for any more work that may/may not be assessed.
Reasons being:
a) To keep a structure to her day.
Having said that, the work being done is a fraction of what she would have done if the exams were going ahead.
b) As above, so that her Yr11 comes to, for her, a natural end rather than an enforced one.
c) Whilst she won’t ‘fail’, for want of a better word, she will resit any subject that she feels she would have graded higher in should she have been able to sit the exam

Yr 11 & a Yr13 here both done nothing although told to take a week off and then to spend some time reviewing previous work in case was opportunity put in more evidence. Now the guidance come out been told will continue teaching current subjects to half term and will collect evidence for another month as not prevented from doing this. I don’t think this is about boosting or changing grades or ranking but about collecting more evidence to support the teacher assessment which will be based on expected grade at date school closed. The teachers know the children well so I think this is more belt and braces for school to have even more written evidence if they have to justify the grade down the line. And because they have to teach something and it’s easier to keep going than magic up a new curriculum over Easter. DS1 does A level economics and I would be surprised if he doesn’t get an essay set on the current situation for homework when he goes back. But I can’t see teachers giving any weight to a dramatic change in quality of work. And not all students will be able or well enough to do more work and they won’t be disadvantaged.

What about coursework? We have been told to complete art? Anyone know if that will be counted?

@catspyjamas123 this is what a Ofqual said about coursework:

What does this mean for non-exam assessment?
In some subjects students will have completed, or nearly completed, non-exam assessment. This will be helpful to schools and colleges in deciding each student’s grade and rank order. Where there are several subject teachers within a school or college, this work might also be helpful in standardising teachers’ approach to determining the rank order and awarding grades. Schools and colleges do not need to ask students to complete any unfinished non-exam assessment work for the purposes of grading.

Thanks @paddingtonpaddington