Advice on repeating a year

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I wonder if someone with more knowledge of how the school system works could advise ?

My daughter is 15 she will be 16 in August.
She attends an independent girls school in London, it's one of the top academically.
She is due to sit her GCSES this year. She has become very stressed in recent weeks and I am very worried about her mental health. It's not just the exams , we have been through a very tough time as a family recently. She has coped admirably but I want to help as much as possible.

I have not spoken to her school yet and I don't know how they will react.. Will it affect her future , particularly university etc , I know this will be the first question she asks me .

Thank you all in advance.

P.S . I have also posted in Education but I thought perhaps there may be someone with advice here.

The school are aware what our family has been through. I'm a little surprised that they haven't mentioned that they could do this @bestbefore.
Thank you x

Thank you all for the advice. It's really helping xx

Actually having a quick look at this it might be special consideration only applies nearer the time - our awfulness happened in April and May.
https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Guidetoospecconnprocess_2122.pdf

I don't think special consideration applies, however there are things school could do like put her in a smaller room if she would feel that would help.

I think it depends very much what you are worried about - is it that because of the difficult time she won't meet her potential grade-wise (which as others have said, can be mitigated against by the school to some extent), or is it that you're worried her MH just isn't up to the stress of taking the exams after what she's been through?

If she's staying at the same school for sixth form, they will know the reasons why her GCSEs are not quite stellar (and it sounds as if they will be pretty good) and give her a glowing UCAS reference, and can no doubt say that she would have done even better but for some distressing family circumstances, without giving any details.

If it is just a case of some 9s being 7/8 instead, then the benefits of moving on with her own year group may outweigh the improved grades. I also think that doing them next year may be even more stressful, as she will then feel she's got no excuse for not getting the 9s. (If it were my daughter, I know that would be the biggest factor for her, but of course yours may be different.)

@Ianthanum yes she would be at the same school.You have a very good point, it cause extra stress next year.