Year 11 22/23 support thread.

[PritiPatelsMaker]

Does anyone fancy a support thread for the just about to start Year 11's.

I'm not Mystic Meg but even I can see a rocky year ahead of me...

Anyone fancy joining me?

Yes please. Anxiety levels are already climbing here.

Think I've got the opposite problem here Show. DD is far too relaxed for her own good.

She's done one GCSE in Y10 so I suppose next Thursday will give an indication of just how relaxed she's been.

Does you DC know what they want to do after Y10?

I’ll join please, have DD going into Year 11. Currently trying and failing to persuade her to do the homework school have set for the summer before we go away this week. 🙄

Of course you're welcome to join circle. My DD assures me that there is no homework but I think that we've all had those assurances before...

Think I might need to check the homework situation again.

My incredibly laid back boy is going into yr11. He thinks it's going to be a breeze!

Can I join please. My DD's school are ramping up already. 5 hours homework per subject over the summer and 2 extra lessons a week in the timetable from September.

Luckily she likes school!

I'll join please. The best we are hoping for in this house is DS passes Maths and English so he doesnt have to redo them at college, but even that is in doubt unless he actually bothers himself to do some work. Not helped by a school that rarely sets homework, doesnt discipline for not completing homework and thought it was perfectly acceptable to not contact me at all untjl the last week of year 10 to say DS hadn't done any homework all year and was in danger of failing all his GCSEs!

Hello! I am currently awaiting a set of GCSE results this week and have another heading into Year 11 in September.

Pressed post too quickly. DD has been a dream, she'll hopefully do okay. DS? At the moment he'd be lucky to scrape 3s. I honestly don't know what to do to get through to him.

I’ve had a bit of a chat about sixth-form applications this weekend with DD. All of our local sixth forms are massively oversubscribed so it’s by no means guaranteed that she would get an offer easily at any of them.

One of the options has one open day in October on a date we know she won’t be able to make so we did the journey there and back today by public transport today just to see how long it takes and if it’s feasible, etc.

Am hoping that might inspire her to do her bloody English homework

Don't know how DD will perform if I'm honest. She's bright enough to pass them, but getting her to do any work is another story.

There's a good Sixth at her school but she doesn't want to go there, even though her BF plans to go.

I'm planning on taking her to some college open days but if she stays at school she can walk home whereas all of the colleges will be bus or train or both.

I think my DD will stay at school. She wants to go and look at the local super selective grammar (she failed 11+) but I think she is sure it's not for her as she's bright but doesn't like too much pressure. She may also go and look at a college that offers a option school doesn't but as it's a diploma not an a level and she aiming high for university not sure that will be the right choice.

She's pretty much sure on her subject choices and I think what she wants to do at uni as well.

In our area it's mainly a levels = school and college = vocational. As her school gets good results - certainly better that the other non selective girls / co-Ed options it doesn't really make sense to move.

There is another thread only just started,
Y11 2023

Ds1 is going into year 11. He is bright and capable of doing extremely well, but getting to do any work is another matter.

DH and I have therefore agreed that we’ll be making expecting him to spend a certain amount of time on homework and/or revision on school nights and weekends before he’s allowed on his phone or PlayStation.

I’m curious as to whether anyone else will be doing similar and if so, how much time spent on study you’ll be expecting from your DC? DH and I are having a bit of disagreement on that. It’s not that we are looking to be pushy parents, but don’t want DS to waste his potential.

Yes please. DS going into Y11. After doing very little in way of revision, DS did start doing a bit more during Y10 but he doesn't knows what's coming tbh. Good luck all!

@LockAqua I think I'll have no choice but to ban gaming until work/revision is done.

I will join you, my also laid back DS is going to need a lot of nagging this year I think.

@CornishGem1975

That’s the approach we’re going to be taking. Have you decided how much homework/revision you’ll be expecting?

No @LockAqua but I told my DS today we'd be sitting down and discussing it properly. Hard thing is he lives with his dad 50% of the time which is where is PC is

I also need to come up with a plan to get DS to commit some time to revision but my problem is he doesnt game etc after school he works and seems to be of the opinion as he already has a job GCSEs dont matter 🙈

My son's year 10 PPE results were worrying bad and it was somewhat of a shock. I was expecting some drop in level because of the home schooling during the lockdowns but he seemed to drop a few levels down. However, our school gives us the average results and highest grade received for the cohort so it looks as if the whole year struggled. Having spoken to his teachers they said they weren't worried blaming the pandemic and year 10s not being used to exams etc and they took into account past test papers taken in class. I really hope this is the case. I've made sure my son knows how important it is now to really knuckle down with his revision - he is so laid back. He is aware that if he doesn't earn the necessary grades, he won't be able to continue in sixth form, which I don't think he'd considered before I actually showed him the grades required on the schools website.

My DD isn't a gamer either. In some ways I think it's easier if they are <looking at you DS>.

My DD isn’t a gamer. But she spends a ridiculous amount of time on her phone.