2020 GCSE certificates

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Daughter has asked her school and her form tutor doesn’t know when they’ll receive them, have your children received theirs?

My DS got his last term (both OCR and AQA boards).

DS hasn't heard a word about getting them

DS received his last term. AQA, Edexcel & WJEC.

Ask the exams officer. They were sent out last term.

Edexcel and AQA all arrived in November.

Yes my son received them a few weeks ago.

DD was given hers last day school in December - which reminds me. I need to copy and file them before they get lost..

We got DD’s at end November.

DD picked her GCSE certificates (AQA, OCR and Edexcel) from ‘old school’ in November.
@Heifer cheers for the heads up on what she has actually done with them since

Yes DD got hers in December.

No word from our school about GCSE or A Level certificates. Various boards - Edexcel, OCR and AQA.

I got mine in the post last month

Seems a bit mixed, also a mixture of exam boards, mainly AQA? We have asked a few times now and daughter asked again last week and the school either don’t respond or her form teacher doesn’t know and doesn’t seem to be finding out either.

The teachers won't know. The exams officer will have them.

School will have them. It might not be convenient at the moment for them to give you them at the moment (due to lockdown I mean) but if you contact them.i am sure they will advise.

Ds1 got his last term.

Why don't you ring them and speak to someone? Schools are a bit busy at the moment (although I agree that's a bit shit if you've asked before lockdown and more than once).

Is she still at the school where she her A levels? If so they may have been planning to distribute them on return to school in January if they had mocks in December. We do it the other way, distributed within school in December and mocks after Christmas.

We had soecific days because of social distancing when they were supposed to collect their certificates and sign for them. Perhaps she missed this.

It is the Exams Officer who would deal with this so if you could get their name from the website or form teacher then you caould email the exams officer direct. It is a bit crap of the form teacher that they didn't agree to find out what was happening or even tell your DD to ask (name) the exam officer.

My DDs schools is keeping hold of them for some reason, she was allowed to see them and check they were correct.

This seems very strange. Exam boards make it quite clear that the certificates must be issued to students without delay. I would definitely be querying this with the exams officer.

AQA and Edexcel here but no mention of them from our school. I keep wondering when they will get them.

Thanks everyone, I did manage to get hold of the Exams officer and they have them, they are holding on to them until they can be handed out/collected when they get back to some sort of normal, they don’t want to risk posting them, which seems fair.

The school said they hold onto them in case they get lost, as they are expensive to replace. They get given them when they leave the school

Presuming you mean students who would were last years Y11’s?

We’ve got ours all ready to hand out to students if they need them. But we’re holding onto them unless asked as we’d really like to try to do an event to collect them and praise the students when Covid is better.

Her school should have them there and it would be the Exam Officer who is responsible.

Sorry somehow missed your update. Sane as our school then. If you need them for any reason sooner they should be able to sign them out for you to collect safely.