GCSE supporting - to half term, and beyond!

[SheilaFentiman]

Making a new thread to support half term revision and the set of GCSEs afterwards!

@LighthouseCat "@PennywisePoundFoolish If a tutor said to DD that an 8 is great, she'd be similarly annoyed/outraged! They don't understand our DC."

I think it's our job to decatastrophise this with them though. Perspective is really important and hard to acquire at 16. DD has been on a massive journey with this, this year, and her mental health is so much better for it. We still have a tonne of work to do with our Y9 on this though.

@PennywisePoundFoolish I haven't looked into this much but I understand getting into uni is much more about the applicant's research and interest in the course than listing extra-curriculars.

My son is playing his beloved Basketball 🏀 today but I've told him he will have to revise tomorrow.

DS has stomped off - after a lot of huffs and moaning and claims it better than do a past paper - one he admits he hadn't done - is to do a work book we got him upstairs away from me something he's hated every other time he's tried it.

Between him and everything else going on in the house today I think I'm just done for the day.

Ours has done a bit of faffing with a maths past paper, moaned about hay fever, decided he needed to walk to the shop, moaned that his hay fever was worse after being outside 🙄 and is now having an hour off to watch a bit of the 24 hours of Le Mans. He lives and breathes motorsport so the plan is a motorsport engineering degree at either Trinity St David's or Castle Combe.

DD is at her Saturday music school all day today so no revision happening here. Her younger sibling is playing in an open-air concert and I am treating myself to the attached in an air-conditioned cafe before having to stand in the sun to watch him.

DS will do an hour or so tonight he has had a good lie in and then gone on a bike ride with friends which always sounds very Enid Blyton but in reality means riding to the beach so they can hang around and talk to girls.

Lovely 😊🍹

It's seeming a bit never ending this weekend. Partly as I'm fed up pointing out my son's writing is totally illegible (even to him at times).

But apparently he doesn't have time to write legibly, particularly in English. I feel like I'm going slightly insane reiterating that you can't get marks if they can't read what you've written. Oh well, what do I know.

Another one not revising due to music stuff here, and by the time we're home and fed it's the Champions League final, so it will be a full day off 🙂. She seems quite chipper today as the end is in sight, thank goodness.

I take it she's at Westminster as it's the only school with 40% success rate. Many schools have a 40% offer rate but only 20-25% actually get in.

No, she's at St Paul's. Westminster is still boys only at GCSE level. But the school doesn't really matter, my point was that four A Levels really aren't necessary for Oxbridge. If they were necessary, I am quite sure the school would be encouraging them all to do four and they really aren't. Quite the opposite.

Dd and two friends are currently sat in my kitchen decorating their school shirts with blue paint and glitter ready for shirt signing day on Wed. If all three of them have put as much effort into their revision as this, they'll go far!

I totally agree. Both my DC are prone to catastrophise. I do always try after the event (when, surprise surprise, the world did not end/it turned out to be ok) to get them to reflect on that. DD1 (apart from this maths business) is a lot better than she used to be.

It’s been non-stop revision since DS woke up. I did lure him down with an al fresco brunch in the garden, but he ran back up after half hour. Almost no other breaks except toilet breaks and needing a Diet Coke.

This can’t be healthy! It’s been Chemistry all day. And a Maths paper 3. Going to try getting some more papers online from primrose kitten. Tomorrow English Language.

My ds OCD has flared right up big time again today. I'm gutted as the last couple weeks has been ok and even though its there every day he has been in control of it. Its very hard to concentrate as he's so distracted by his thoughts. We are just going to have to somehow get through the last week.

I think DS1 has had the whole day off, but he has two days from here to revise chem as he did English language early, so I think it’s a good idea!

Any chance of a new job bread for the final stretch @SheilaFentiman ?

DS very stressed today, mostly about English as far as I can tell. DP not helping.

That is meant to say thread!!!

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New thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/secondary/4824919-gcse-support-the-final-frontier