GCSE support - the final frontier!

[SheilaFentiman]

These are the voyages of the GCSE Enterprise. To support our DCs, bemoan exam boards and to boldly go through the last fortnight like no one has gone before!

DD is ingesting Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream and chocolate milk. She has gone a bit wobbly and teary so I have suggested she step away from the Chemistry and have a bit of down time before bed. Honestly, I will be so glad when this is all over.

We have the pancakes!!

Yay!

Hooray re pancakes. Dd refuses all breakfast except an oat milk hot chocolate which she makes herself- but I was allowed to buy her lunch today….

fingers crossed for chemistry tomorrow… could go either way for her I reckon.

Can I add number of glasses used in a day as it's inconceivable my son could use a glass for more than one drink. I think 10 is around the average.

Yes 🙌

Ha ha yes that’s another one! I think my son had 3 different glasses on the go this afternoon for 3 different types of drinks and then I caught him trying to get another one out of the cupboard! Definite avoidance tactics! He’s now resorted to Love Island quoting “If electrolysis comes up, I’ve got no chance”………. 😂 hopefully some mindless TV will take his mind off it fairly swiftly!!

Excellent news..Do you have enought to get through last exams?

Well English is done and dusted.
I hope everyone is All aboard for Chemistry tomorrow!

During mocks I had made scrambled eggs and bagels and salmon and lovely stuff which he enjoyed because into his whole cooked breakfast. This time he won’t have any of that. Too nervous. So every morning I put a plate of fruits on table, mangoes, blueberries and watermelon with raspberries, and he eats most of that. But has to eat a pain au chocolat fresh from oven. Feel like was doing too much …but now I read these posts I’m relieved! I’ve actually screen shot post about pancakes earlier to show DH ! Lol he was saying I’m faffing too much.

My poor baby, her period arrived this afternoon 😢 She is doubled over with cramps and still gamely wanted me to test her on chemistry. I've sent her to bed early with paracetamol and a hottie. Just hope the worst is over before tomorrow morning.

DS1. Eurgh my gawd Mum. You're just so over invested in me and my exams.

Also DS1 Errrr, where are the bacon butties???

Me. Well you told me to stop being so invested, so I did!!!!

Also.... ;))

Has anyone else gotten tired of looking at grade boundaries after each exam?

Well, if I got 67 on this paper in Geography, I need a << sucks teeth dramatically >> 56 on the next for an 8. No, wait, I can't count, I need 66....

After. Every. Paper. And then he changes his mind on what mark he thinks he's gotten.

AND ;))

In our house it's not glasses that we count. It's the number of showers. What's going on there?

OMG, glasses, cups and bowls. Bane of my life at normal times but I swear the entire contents of the kitchen are currently in her room.

Yes, we have two packs of six, and only Wednesday's maths paper to go. He'll probably never want to look at them again after this week!

I was also the Muppet in the click-and-collect queue in Wilko at 6.58 on Friday evening for what appeared to be the last three-pack of Pilot Ecoball pens on the blooming planet because they are apparently the only pens he can possibly write his exams with and he'd lost his last one. Amazon couldn't get them to us in time for today, but Wilko on the opposite side of the city had one pack in stock. The woman who came out with them was like 'Um....is this everything....?' And of course, first words when I walked back in through the door - 'I've found it!' 🙄

I’ve said to him after the prom that I am actually done. My job as a mum. He’s a grown man:)

• (there has to be a cut off point !) And he said Noooo mum I’m always going to need you! To which I replied I dannae I canna help you no longer laddy withya maths and further maths and physics ‘n chemistry! I giv’n it all I got! P.s. Join a group! He’s a hugger so we hug a lot.

But seriously, are we done after these exams? I mean, our jobs as mums? Someone tell me it ends soon hahaha

Haha @MrsHamlet yes that too!

Well done on the pancakes @spiderlight

Oh no @PennywisePoundFoolish that’s so stressful.

DD told me they started last week’s maths exam late as 2 girls were stuck in traffic. There seems to be so many road closures and temporary lights recently.

Interesting to read about food!

My dd doesn’t eat breakfast which has meant her doing her morning exams on an empty stomach which isn’t ideal but what can you do 🤷‍♀️ I’ve offered her something to eat in the car on the way to school but it was refused.

I’ve been treating her to lunch from Subway or Wenzels most days after exams.

DD doesn't like breakfast either. I've been sending her with a homemade mocha to drink on the tube on the way in as at least that means she's had a milky drink. Have offered her many types of breakfast and non-breakfast foods but all have been declined. I am not a breakfast-eater either so I do have a bit of sympathy.

That's bad timing, @SaSaisong 😕

DS has got steadily less confident about today's English as the day's gone on, from 'It was fine' all the way to worrying that he hasn't passed. Hope it's just fatigue setting in. He managed to get sunburnt this afternoon, which hasn't helped - we were forecast heavy rain and he was supposed to come home straight after the exam, so he didn't have sunscreen on, but he and his friend randomly walked miles to the park in blazing sun and back, and he's ginger, so he's very pink and grumpy tonight.

Only three more after Chemistry this morning. Will be nice to be able to revise one subject at a time.

I feel strangely free because English was the only one he asked for help with. Although it was very grumpily received (apparently I like to give bad marks and the mark scheme is wrong). We also had a tirade on a practice paper being a really bad source which they'd never use (except they obviously had). Teenagers....

But we move on and thankfully I will be zero help with his A levels which is a relief.

@PicnicBunny i do hate to tell you but not done yet!! Alevels are tough and elder ds degree had its moments of him needing support. Strap your self in!!!!

Morning everyone!!

Good luck for Chemistry today!

Thunder storms predicted here today. Such a warm night I had to sleep on top the covers.