Year 11 - 2024/2025: Half way, half baked, half term!

[QueenMabby]

Continuation of the year 11 support thread. Go!

Here it is!

According to dd, she is the only one of her friendship group who is revising 🤔
A couple are away on holiday
She's contemplating going to see a friend tomorrow

I’ve had this all week. Funny how those friends end up getting 7+ in everything with apparently no work at all!

I have just been informed NoRevision's least academic friend but loveliest friend is going to be here all tomorrow

There are very few crossover revision subjects (Higher/Foundation) but we do crossover with geography and eng lang, I have agreed but with conditions that we shall all be enjoying geography case studies and eng lang paper 2 past papers together!

Dem de rules this week sugar plum!

My husband took a day off work to coach dd in maths. It's not going well. She's in tears saying he's horrible. He's biting his tongue, I can see the muscles in his temples working.

She's supposed to be working at around a 6, just come out with 4 in a past paper.

I took her younger brother out to give them some space. Apparently taking him to the stationary shop (ASD, niche interest in notebooks) makes me the most unfair mother ever.

It was going well until the half term break

I'm afraid I've reached the "these are your exams - this is your future".
If she doesn't get a 5 in maths or English Language she'll have to re-sit 🤷‍♀️

@Sisublondie good to hear no injuries, maybe a night off for all to recoup!

ChatGTP is very patient as a tutor and doesn't get cross.

Mine won't use it... sigh... but I have been very impressed with it.

Does anyone on this thread have a child doing an edexcel IGCSE in ICT please ? Just wondering if anyone can recommend any good revision guides or other materials ! DS2 ( yr10 and younger brother of my yr11) has just started mock revision and we are struggling to find anything that isn’t 12 years old .

My DS is a big fan of revising to music, @OhCrumbsWhereNow, whereas I struggle to work with background noise. I’ve been working from home today to provide morale and/or revision supervision, but finding it really hard to concentrate as my home office is across the landing from his bedroom where ClassicFM is playing all day. For extra fun, the piano tuner has now arrived so I’ve given up for now! On the plus side, I think some History and all three sciences have been attempted today.

Apparently DS is going to regale us all at teatime with the 'fun facts on the Normans' he has been revising today 🤣

Bless him he has done well. Keeping the momentum going over the weekend has worked on him as he has revised with little resistance at all. He needs the momentum though, half term would have been a battle otherwise

This reminds me of when my dad tried to teach me to drive.
Things were said and tears were shed 🤣🤦‍♀️

Sending solidarity 🤗

Anyone got a soft spot for a subject that they would like their DC to do well in? But it might not be DC's strongest? I'm guilty of this. I don't want to pressure DC so posting on here instead!

@rosemarble What is this “reasonably tidy” that you speak of? 🤔🤣 DDs room is an absolute tip. I just have to close the door on it but I’ve said after her exams, she better give it a proper tidy and deep clean!

@Sisublondie - glad you’re ok! Like you haven’t got enough to be getting on with 😬💐

Sisublondie I'm glad you're okay too. You must be really shaken up though.

Ineverseeyou yes, I was able to help with Eng Lit and biology as these were my strengths in school so, if he does well, I will hold my hands up and claim it's down to my input, if he has fluffed them, (which I suspect with Lit, P1) then he's on his own - all down to him.

Finally caught up! DD has also lost some momentum but did do some science notes over the weekend and Monday but largely took the time off to relax. She has done some maths and geography so far as well as going to the gym on Tuesday and swimming with her younger brother today followed by a KFC. I’m trying not to go on too much but mention revising A LOT! Now she has study leave, she thinks she has more time but I think she needs to do a few hours a day. She’s another one that takes forever to get out of bed but then studies late into the night which is fine as long as she isn’t distracted by Corrie or whatever. I don’t get involved with her revision unless she asks me to test her.

Going back to the “what they plan to do next year” conversation, DD has 3 conditional offers so her first choice is the top 6th form college in the area, second and third choices are also 6th form colleges. Back up option is staying at her school but she really doesn’t want to. Some of her friends are staying on but she fancies a change and is looking forward to branching out. She makes friends easily but can be a bit nervous in new situations (like many including me) so think this would do her good. Just needs to get the results! She wants to do Business, Psychology and Media Studies A levels and hopes for a degree apprenticeship in a business related field such as marketing but that may well change.

You’ve done well to catch up! I was getting ready to post, having read, then the Mother called……🙀🙀🙀😹!!

Good to hear DD is doing well getting back on track.. yes, I think you’re right, the study leave ( DS not started yet) and the half term seems to have shaken a few DC- I certainly regret my decision to give DS the weekend off… today has been a total waste of time, as far as I can tell. So, good she’s cracking on- and the swimming and KFC sound perfect as a break! Great plan!

Her A level choices sound soooooo interesting! I love those choices! A degree apprenticeship in marketing would be excellent, and I love the psychology choice in particular ( I love how psychology can be a real addition to so many areas, in real life). Her options sound well thought out, and leaving her current school and “ branching out” sounds pretty great. I guess it’s natural to sometimes be nervous, having to make new friends, but sometimes you can be so grateful after the event that you’ve done so 😸! She definitely sounds like she’s on course so 🤞she gets there!

Thank you! You know what p&&&&es me off the most? I’d popped to get DS a bloody “Steak Bake” for his brunch as a suprise after dropping DS18 off….. so, in typical Mother Blaming Mode, I’m thinking “ If I didn’t indulge/spoil/treat him unnecessarily/excessively/pointlessly, I wouldn’t have been on that lane, at that time, so therefore it is MY fault the accident occurred!! Not the chap who crashed into me”!

Go Figure, as the yanks say! 🤷‍♀️😈

Sadly not… any DS passes will immediately become my new favourite subject! 🙏🤞🙏

Sadly not - DD ditched every single one of my favourite subjects back at the end of Y8.

Other than English and Maths, our GCSE choices are polar opposites.

It also means I am utterly useless in terms of providing any help or pearls of wisdom. Which is possibly a good thing.

Thank you for your wishes before! I’m fully taking your fab advice and my oxygen mask is fully strapped on 😷 🤩!

Teatime “Fun facts with (on, sorry!) ON the Normans” sounds really good and I’m sure he’s going to love showing off what he’s learned 🥇! It totally makes me think of the Horrible Histories- I love that! ( in 2012, we had some refurb done here so stayed in a holiday lodge for a couple of weeks … DH was away with work, so just me and the little DS’s…. and only had Horrible Histories to watch! Good times!!.. maybe I should find those!).

Hope it goes well! 🤩

Well, I absolutely think that if your DS blasts some Geography and English papers off, with his lovely friend, then tomorrow shall be declared a winner!!🏆

I hope they have a fantastic time…..in all aspects!

Thank you! Was a bit of a shock, but absolutely grateful not hurt 🙏

Oh, absolutely! I’ve felt wretched as the other driver was young and, for their sake, I reaallllyyyyy wish it hadn’t happened.. but, yes, we all agreed it really is just “ metal” and just grateful all ok!