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I kind of read this physics on friday...but I am pretty sure physics is on Thursday?

@ittakes2 physics is tomorrow here. Aqa

I wouldn't say our school with an Ofsted "Requires Improvement" rating is "speaking from a position of great privilege". I just don't see how attending lessons for subjects that have already completed exams is of any use to anyone, which is essentially what some posters are saying.

@EverythingHurtsAndImHungry I wonder if we are the same school. We have exactly the same. Dd went in this am she has learnt half the poems to compare with what ever comes up which they will have in full. I hope it works out. She felt it wasn't to big a risk and said she just couldn't do the work volume and Los look at blood brothers too. We will see. In school till 3 then physics revision. One of today's lessons is physic crammed and she can study in rs she says

waiting anxiously to hear from DD who is sitting the eduquas paper (worth 60% of the final mark). They’d barely covered one of the set texts in class so she’ll be up against it. Glad to get it out of the way though.

she has a full timetable of regular lessons as well (not all of which are staffed, so extra pointless) but I’m going to stop sending her in after the break.

I've just voluntarily tidied up my younger teens desk and under his loft bed.
That's how badly I'm trying to take my mind off the exam until DD texts

I now need gin because of the bedroom tidying as well as the exam anxiety

DD's school do intervention sessions for the next exam which seems a good way of doing it to me.

She's not managing to revise at all at home. DH died unexpectedly at the start of the Easter holidays and she doesn't see the point in doing anything. She managed to hold it together last week for the first three exams, but I had to drive her to school in tears on Monday for chemistry and geography. School are trying their best to be helpful, but she's finding it really difficult understandably, and there's nothing I can really do to help.

@kennythekangaroo so sorry for your loss and how awful for your DD too

@kennythekangaroo I'm so sorry for your loss 💔

Oh @kennythekangaroo - I am so sorry. That must be absolutely awful for you both. I hope the exam board give full consideration. She's amazing for even going in and sitting them under the circumstances. Sending a tight handhold for you both.

@kennythekangaroo Hopefully she can get what she needs for the next stage and will have more space to grieve over the summer.

@kennythekangaroo how awful. I'm so sorry for you all.

She's doing amazingly to sit any exams at all.

My heart goes out to you and your family. This is so sad. Hope you’re getting all the help the school and exam boards can give. Your poor DD, bigbig hugs to you all.

@kennythekangaroo your daughter is doing so well to even enter the exam room and gentle hugs to you both.

@kennythekangaroo sorry for your loss

DD declared English Lit "easy" Two of the easiest poems to compare and no
surprises. She said it was a nice paper

@kennythekangaroo I'm so sorry. That sounds incredibly difficult. I hope you have some of the support you both need from the people around you.

DS physics is on Thursday but this has exam dates and some are happening Friday for other boards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zw27tcw

If in doubt should be an accessible timetable for each board you can find via google at least there is for WJEC.

Apparently, and I won't quote due to swears, English was "arse" and utterly stupid. The poems talked more about how the writer emphasized feelings rather than conflict as they were told to expect, and Jekyl and Hyde asked about bad behaviour in characters but to her that's only Hyde.
Answered everything now but they're miffed

@kennythekangaroo that's awful and I'm so sorry for you both.

It's really good she managing to sit anything really and hopefully enough to get to somewhere she wants to be next year.

@kennythekangaroo hugs to you & DD.

@kennythekangaroo so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how hard this is for you and your DD.

DD is back she said it went really well. AIC they gave them two themes to choose from rather than a theme or a character. Surprisingly all her friends did one theme and she did the other as she had loads more quotes to use for that one. Poem was my last duchess and theme was effects of power so compared to Ozymandias and thinks that went well. Amazingly (she understood both unseen poems (a real first) and so feels like that went far better than expected too. Hopeful for this one.

@kennythekangaroo that's quite something for her to deal with, her poor brain must be all in a muddle.

DD was happy enough with Eng Lit and was able to answer everything. I don't know any more than that for now.

AQA English Literature for ds today. He's emailed me to say the An Inspector Calls question he did was about gender and the poem was My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. Both things on his favoured list of themes to come up

@Hersetta427 @HippyChickMama these sound right up DDs alley I think she'll have done ok with the themes and poems by the sounds of it. She was a bit at the thought of having to focus on just one character tbh so at least with a theme they can show off their knowledge better (what they managed to recall)