Corona Cohort’s Year 12 adventures

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We’ve made it into year 12 and rapidly approaching the end of the first half term .

Lots of challenges we could never imagined as we started the year but we’re all keeping on keeping on and this thread is for anyone who would like to jump on board to share the rather unusual journey this is turning out to be.

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Thank you. It’s lovely to see him developing and he recognises he is - which I think feels a bit unsettling but he is getting used to it and we have discussed how that is very much an ongoing process.

Crazycrofter your DD will go far in life - that’s no small feat she has pulled off not upsetting the first group! So glad to never to have to go through teenage years again. Great about her RS.

Really to sorry to hear about DD and DH Sandy, fingers firmly crossed for a swift recovery and very reassuring to hear testing etc has gone smoothly.

Very impressed with those dc managing to ease themselves into new social groups with all the negotiation and finesse involved

Dd still hasn't spoken to anyone she didn't already know (and she barely speaks to them!)

Apparently we are supposed to get a 'Progress Week Report' but we haven't had anything According to dd they have to read the teacher's feedback, then rewrite it themselves on to a form, then add their own comments - so we don't actually get anything from the teachers themselves

Sounds most odd, so I'm going to ask her tutor about it next week

Wishing your family a swift recovery Sandy

Sorry to hear that covid has hit @sandybayley. Hope everyone gets a mild case - in a way it would be a relief to get it out the way wouldn’t it, as long as its not too unpleasant.

Dd has very high ‘emotional intelligence’ if it was possible to measure it! Has loads of really close friends and has never fallen out with anyone. She’s very fortunate! It’s particularly important though that she doesn’t upset the group she’s moving on from as she goes on the train to school with one of them!

How is Dd doing @TheySeeHerRowling ? Is she coping ok? Am I right that she moved to a college?

@sandybayley sorry to hear your family has been hit with covid, hope you all get through it without too much impact - have you managed to book on line shopping deliveries etc? I think I would usually only manage for a couple of days without needing to pop out for anything! Strange that your student son is keeping away from you because you have it instead of the usual way round!

@crazycrofter time to make plans for fabulous big Easter family gatherings when we have all been vaccinated - well, at least the vulnerable people will.

Poor you, @sandybayley - hope the pressure on tables and laptops doesn’t get too great...

I have just written my teacher report for one of my Year 6 girls applying to SPGS. It had a section to refer to how the candidate had coped in Lockdown #1 so I explained that Year 6 girl was locked down with 3 older siblings in 2 bedroomed flat with 2 smart phones between them to access their online learning...

DD recommends her new app Driving Theory 4 in 1 for those cramming!

@KingscoteStaff is that the name of the app Driving theory 4 in 1? I decided to just book ds's theory for feb half term. I hope he's had some driving lessons before then.

Thanks, crazycrofter, she is enjoying her subjects, seems to be doing pretty well academically too - as usual it's the social and practical elements she struggles with

All the very best to you and family sandybayley, hope your symptoms remain mild

Good luck to your Y6 pupil, KingscoteStaff - it's thoughtful of the school to ask about how lockdown impacted upon applicants

I wonder if universities are asking the same question this year

@KingscoteStaff I found the app. thanks. 4 in 1 kit.

Thanks everyone. We're all ok. Ocado coming tonight and another delivery next Friday. DD will be 'free' on Friday so we'll survive. A random friend (identify not yet disclosed) has just left a chocolate cheesecake on our doorstep which has made us smile.

It's better for DD as all her year group are off. For DS2 it's more annoying as most of his year are are in. DS1 (at uni) has had a Covid free term with all his tutorials still fa e to face. How has your DS been at Durham @KingscoteStaff ?

Hope you are ok Sandy.

Chocolate cheesecake?

And I was very impressed with Zebra's parenting style, dealing with her issue, with chocolate cake!

What's all this talk of cake all of a sudden......

Apart from 10 days’ quarantine when he and most of his household tested positive, DS was having a good time - rugby, cricket, music, socialising with household. Then lockdown #2 hit and all sport went away - reduced to running!

However, silver lining is that his college household have massively bonded and 8 of them have found a house together for next year.

He is back on the 8th and starts his temp job at a well-known food shop on Piccadilly on the 9th!!!

That was in reply to @sandybayley (slow typing while pouring tea...)

F&M ?

More food talk?

I'm covid overweight already.... this isn't helping!

Ooh fab @KingscoteStaff although I was disappointed with the St James Christmas Pud. The rum butter is the best. Oops sorry more food talk!

That is a seriously good job @KingscoteStaff ! DS1 is hoping to get back his Wimbledon job next summer after having it cancelled last summer. He did think about a Christmas job but has a serious amount of work to do this vacation and exams in the New Year.

God I'd live a mooch around the F&M food hall. Maybe next year....

I love the fact we are all from all over the UK. Just looked up SPGS Kingscote.
We live up north, surrounded by fields and villages. I must have spent only about 7 nights in London in my entire life.

Hope all is well sandybayley and whoever gets it, gets over it fast. You’ll be antibodied up for Christmas!

Good news Dd got A*AA for her predictions. Bad news I have no idea how she’s going to be able to do a practice examined assessment as it appears she has to forget about social distancing and masks completely in order to achieve high marks, so an A is at risk.

Wow that's early @Zandathepanda - very good. Opens up lots of possibilities.

DS should get 'provisional predicted grades' in about May. They then get predicted grades in late June.

Wow at friends that just deposit cheesecake on your doorstep!
A job at F&M sounds so exotic. We're in Zanda style countryside. Should have been coming to London for sport at the Copper Box between xmas & new year...

Sorry to hear more are in isolation.

Zanda those grades look brilliant. Hope it's a confidence boost. DS has no idea when ALIS scores & predicted grades are likely to be discussed.

Actually ‘predictions’ is what Dd said - it’s probably technically ‘hoping to achieve’ or something similar. I just asked her and she said the tutor told her ‘Your grades are..’ so none the wiser until we get a parents’ evening or any kind of report - which is lost in the post (hence her asking tutor)!

DD’s school are doing full exam hall Year 12 exams in formal conditions the week after Easter hols. Predictions will be made, with an opportunity to retake the first week back in September if they want to argue for a higher prediction grade.

I think there is a worry that without the GCSEs, they don’t really have a handle on how each girl is likely to perform in high stakes conditions - not to mention checking they’ve got all the extra timers and rest breakers sorted.

DS has predictions and targets but I think they are fluid yet ax early days. Think firm ones that go for UCAS are in June. They are sorting extra time where appropriate I think, just ask if he has gone to see about that as they have asked him to.

What lovely friends to bring cheesecake Sandy, my kind of people! Testing sounds a lot quicker now then, took nearly a week when we needed to which wasn’t great.

We are on the edge of country side which DD hated and is happier in a city and couldn’t wait to leave. DS is complete opposite and will need to look at somewhere small for university with a campus I think.

Any friend that delivers cheesecake is a keeper :-)

This thread moves so fast it's hard to keep up if you don't read it for a couple of days. Just because I don't comment on your posts please don't think I don't read it - or care. I find it so helpful reading your and your DD/DS Yr 12 stories, and also really interesting too.

Like someone said, we seem to live all over the UK (I'm on the Wirral), and have different lives but the 1 thing we all have in common is a Yr12.

Really hope things keep moving foward for those of you that had been struggling but you see signs of improving. I hope those of you waiting for diagnosis don't have to wait too long and get the surport your child needs and deserves.

Also impressed with those that have jobs (especially in F&M), DD isn't the slightest bit interested in having a job.

She also got some predictions this week, A* in Pychology, A in PE, not heard about Biology yet. Although she has been doing well in tests, except the latest one where she said she got a D, but having seen her paper, apparently the teacher had miscounted the ticks so 2 ticks would take her to a C, then DD believes that the teacher didn't give her enough marks for a certain question, so she emailed the teacher to explain she thought she had miscounted plus was there a change her answer should have been 3 marks instead of 2,, which if so apparently would mean a B.. Not sure how 3 marks difference can go from D to B but apparently it can.. The teacher seems happy that DD had politely questioned her and said something like a good scientest doesn't just assume someone added somethign correctly and she was right to check.

No word on GCSE certs, parents even or mocks/end of year exams. I can't find anything on the website etc which is a pain as we want to book a weekend trip to London to watch England hockey matches in May (get money back if cancelled), but we won't go if DD has exams then. I've asked DD a few times to ask someone at school but still hasn't.. I threated that I would email myself if she doesn't find out soon.

Can't believe we only have 2.5 weeks left of this term (break up 16th Dec) it seems to have gone so quickly.

@Heifer it’s my DS19 who’s got himself an Xmas job - DD17 is planning to spend hols
a) selling things on Depop. b) going to the socially distanced gym. c) walking round the socially distanced Common with a variety of chums and d) compiling the massive spreadsheet of Medical Schools - What They’re Like And What They Want From Me.