GCSE Support - nervously waiting

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Hopefully everyone from GCSE Support The Final Frontier can find this new thread!

Well done to everyone with results and still waiting! 👏

@wizzler wow, that’s amazing achievement ! Fantastic results

Congrats @Clymene and @Middersweekly!! And everyone else who got what was needed. Still nervously waiting for ds to update (I've not been allowed to go lol)

DD hasn't got her grades yet (currently sat in Kwik Fit with a slow puncture 😭) but has had an emailing confirming her sixth form choices! So the pressure at least is off for her worry over one of her subjects.

Best of luck to those still waiting

I went and got DS2s. They're better than I expected and he passed both English, with a 5 and a 4, which is amazing.
His maths is lower than he eanted though he's not said it. It's a 7, so a good grade. The snag is his chemistry grade is a 5 when he needed a 6. He got a 6 in Biology and Physics. He wanted to do Biology and Chemistry.

I'll have to see what school say but I have no idea how I go about that

DS has just gone in. Sat waiting patiently in the car!m. Feeling a bit sick!
Just praying for a 4 in Maths and English so we can put the whole education system behind us.

Well done to all the DCs so far - hope they all get what they need to get onto the next step, whether that be A Levels, college, apprenticeships, work.......

DS went in with his mates at 9 to collect their results - he's v chilled about everything but was unusually quiet so I hope he's ok 😢

There's 300 kids awaiting results in his year so I'm thinking it might be a while before he gets his and I hear from him!

Just hope he gets what he needs to 6th form (5 grade 5s incl maths, English and his a level subjects) 🤞

We’re still waiting. Ds is going to hang around with friends afterwards possibly, but we are so nervous here !

Have you checked your school website?
At DD's old school they did RE a year early and had their own timeslot to go in after the y11s.

Well done to everyone so far!

DD has done really well especially considering the very tough times she had over the last few years - most chuffed with 7 in maths and 8s in science up from 5 in mocks!

English slightly disappointing for her but still 6's - she wants to do it for A level so will hope that's enough for school (she's dyslexic so not sure if that has come into it) 9 in drama - her favourite so she's happy with that.

The best news is she's delighted! Onwards and upwards!

And breathe....! DS has passed everything, couple of A's which we weren't expecting, and has done more than enough for his first choice college course. He's on his way to enrol now.

Generally happy here. Hardworking DD got a 9 in maths and is thrilled, wants to do this at A level. Rest of results were 8s and 7s with a disappointing (her not me) 6 for both English exams, no idea why. Just want to emphasise DD has worked very hard for years, don’t want anyone reading to think she strolled in to the exam hall and got mainly 8s and 7s.

Best of luck to everyone waiting.

@TeenDivided

We looked but nothing on then for the year 10’s. Just the year 11s 🤔

Excellent here, above expectations, though he's gutted he was only 4 marks off a 9 for history!

@Iheartbobross I’m waiting in the car round the corner, strict instructions from dd not to go in the school car park! The waiting is torture and her phone is switched off.

DD is delighted, All 8s apart from a 7 in Biology and 9 in history. We're in a Northern comprehensive in a deprived area. She has done amazingly dealing with Covid, having CHD, my own serious illness and the loss of her grandmother.

I'm waiting for my DD to return with hers. She isnt expected to get much more than 3's though. As smart as she is, so also lazy and easily distracted.

Is it worth asking for a remark on Biology? DD was one mark off an 8.

4s in maths and English which are the ones he needed for his apprenticeship and I was worried about. He said he will tell me the rest when he gets in so not sure what that means.

Well done to everyone getting what they need and to those that don't this just means you have to achieve your goal by a slightly different route but its all still possible. My Ddad sat a GCSE in his 60s.

Well done @travelogue fantastic news! My dd has also had some challenges so I’m nervous about her results. She needs 46 points from the 8 best GCSEs for school sixth form.

There's an offer letter from his 6th form, but says he has to speak to school staff on site today. It's not possible so I've sent an email.
I need to look at grade boundaries

I am sitting in my office watching a steady stream of teenagers coming round the corner from the school gripping their A4 envelopes and walking into our brilliant local college to enrol. Could be A levels, Btechs, trades - but they look so excited!

They ALL do a pause and a deep breath before crossing the threshold!

DC1 called. She's done really well, meeting her targets and has what she needs to go to her first choice college. She's really pleased. And she made it through OCR Computer Science unscathed . Leeds Festival next.

Thanks to all the posters on the thread for providing support and containment for my queries and worries over these months - you've been great

My son got 1-7 6-6 and 3-5 he has got into college to do A levels 👍the relief is unbelievable!

Phew! He got what he needed for
his chosen course! Aaaaand relax. Good luck everyone

Is the school in a deprived catchment? What are their results usually like- if it is in a smart area with usually good results, they are likely to be fine. It is always the schools in the poorest bits with the most deprived intakes that are hit because children are affected in all kinds of subtle ways by poverty- many of which impact on educational achievement.

DH is a Head in such a school.The brightest students have done very well, the weakest have done well (lots of SEN support) but there are a group of middle/on-the-border-of-upper-ability students where some have got 4s who they were targeting for 5s and some got 3s who they were targeting for 4s, in English/Maths. They all come from the poorest parts of the catchment- an area of ingrained deprivation for more than 100 years. The ones in that target group who did achieve the grades are, on the whole with few exceptions, from the leafy smart bits of the catchment.

That's the unfair bit - that children are punished by the system for the effects of ingrained poverty and deprivation.