Year 11 - 2024/2025: Heading down the home straight towards that finish line!

[QueenMabby]

Next thread. 10 days of exams to go. Looks like we’re all heading into a busy week this week - good luck!

That's brilliant @OhCrumbsWhereNow . I think we'd take that too.

That was basically all the info I got. and a picture of her eating an ice cream outside the cathedral.

Feels weirdly anticlimactic after all that. Guess she might deign to answer a few more questions when we see her friday.

I'm just hoping dd s mh doesn't spiral now shes done
There's lots coming up over the next month (prom, parties, hobby event...)
But 🤷‍♀️

It feels very strange...

I'm looking forward to no more geography and (praying) no more maths. And just focusing on music - no doubt that will now be sorted into 'bits of music I like' and moaning about 'bits of music `I hate'....

DD has a big audition on Friday, and is starting Jazz lessons on Thursday so not much downtime - probably a good thing to keep her busy and focused as she's been a bit down about leaving school, even said she'd like to do Y11 all over again - kill me now!

I think they can as he looked a few months ago. However this is obviously something we need to consider and rethink if not as he is desperate to earn some cash over the summer

@Pancakeflipper Ahhhhh, bless him! He sounds like mine. I get “ yeh, it was easy…… or I just didn’t get it”..! Hopefully yours WAS smashing it! 🤞

Yay that he did every exam! And, yay for the invigilator.. I’d like to think when she danced out, that her brain is ALSO dancing with all the fun facts and stats she’s learned from your DS! SHE should be thanking HIM!! 😈😹!

My DS is Autistic/ADHD and his interview for college went ok as he had a lovely interviewer… Good Luck Pancake DS… keeping everything crossed for you 🤞…. I would think that you are right, different answer for you, than would be given elsewhere…

I hope he finishes his final exam day off with a storming interview! 🤞😻

One more GCSE to go here. Is anyone else feeling a bit low about it all? I feel a bit sad that it's all coming to an end and they will likely start college and have to make new friends. I know they'll be alright in the end but just feeling a bit low but I'm sure they'll keep busy and meet up with friends over the summer. Their friends are going to stay at 6th form so worried they'll move on.

Yes me too. We have been waiting for this day for years but I feel a bit crap. I think because school hasn't been the social or even academic hub it should have been for him. I really pray that college is his fit.

This is my DD's situation and there's already been some pulling away from her friendship group as they're all going to one sixth form and she's going to another. She was "accidentally" left off the invite list to someone's birthday gathering in the park the other week but because she was focused on her exams she just let it wash over her. I was bloody furious though! We just keep focusing on the fact she'll find more like-minded friends when she starts college.

Dd is going to a 6th form in another town.
Not many from her school are going there.
She's ready to leave where she is but anxious about new school/new people

This cohort missed alot of Y7 and Y8.
I think, for dd, its meant shes just not as attached to the school as my older dd was

Viva, I feel the same. High school was a bit of a social and academic let down here too. Hopefully college will be just what they need!

Super, that's awful! Your poor daughter. I'm glad she let it wash over her. Mine would be devastated (and it has happened in the past). Hopefully there will be like minded kids at college and they will thrive.

Mine would prefer to stay at 6th form to avoid change but they are waitlisted. College would suit so much better but they can't see it yet :)

Thanks all re my rants earlier and @Sisublondie -that was in particular a lovely response. I did the thing I counsel against at work and should have stepped away from the situation and took a breath.
I made him dinner, we ate with stilted conversation as DH was still at work.

1 more on Wednesday and then DD is done. I’m very happy to announce that I will never have to wash and iron school uniform ever again.

@VivaDixieand @TheFunSponge…..
Yep, me too, too! @VivaDixie, you say why so succinctly….. I don’t think it has actually hit me yet, that that truly IS it, school wise, for him. There is no hope left of “ this will be “his Year to “ fit in”, “not get ignored by the popular kids”, “hang out with a group of mates after school”…. But. He would not want to do the latter all the time, his “ social battery 🪫 “ would deplete. And, “ fit in” ?
Well. I feel crap, like you, despite having waited for it. I just hope and pray he gets into the college in the neighbouring town and starts afresh….. “strangers are just friends he’s not met yet “……. 🤞..

But! “HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY 🎂 @VivaDixieDS!!!!! I’m happy you had a fab time at the Soccer ⚽️ Aid game!!”HOW cool is that!?! And, holiday in August! Anywhere nice?!

Your comments as to Asda made me laugh! Of COURSE you just walk up the High St and ask until you get a YES!!! I think I was 14 when I got “ Freeman, Hardy & Willis” ( is that right?! Then, further up to “Barrett’s”….. then, cheated on them, and was in “Athena” before my GCSE’s!!!! Loved that place! I can still smell it, now!

I hope he manages to get something! As to Supermsrkets, I’m not sure. DS16 wants to apply to Costa ( for the discount!) and DS18 works for the National Trust…. Really popular round here…… if you have anything like that close by, that’s worth a look. Or, I’m pretty sure you can “ wait tables” and stuff in pubs, cafes etc?

Well, good luck with getting the 90 worders in Spanish 🇪🇸 tonight 🤞🙏🤞!

And it’s done! Now the long wait for the results 🤨 Best of luck to those DC that still have exams.

DD had a bit of a break down this morning as didn’t sleep well due to period cramps and felt very hormonal. She rarely cries so it broke my heart. She usually walks to school but said I’d take her in so she could have some tablets and 10 minutes sit down on the sofa to gather herself. She was a lot brighter when she got home and has spent the afternoon at a fair in the next town over. She said the bus drove passed them without stopping (probably to swerve picking up a bunch of 15/16yos!) so they got taxis - going to have to teach her some life lessons otherwise her wages won’t go far! Celebrating her unbirthday and end of exams tomorrow so looking forward to giving her the gifts.

@achangeofnameisasgoodasarest I don't suppose you know the name of the aria? DC2 has tried googling based on the word 'glen' but that has yielded some rather... interesting results.

Dd said Physics was ok and she didn’t need half of what she revised. Music was good apparently, after her going on all week about how it was going to be awful.

She came home hot and exhausted and has gradually slipped further and further into rude, grumpy teen mode. To be fair, she is almost never like this and it is exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, I am having a very bad day with my health, the heat is making it worse and I have barely slept for days, so I wasn’t quite the willing emotional punchbag she wanted. After the second rude verbal attack for actually agreeing with what she just said, I told her, regardless of the circumstances, I won’t be spoken to like that and then trotted of to my room and slammed the door, which probably stole her thunder a bit.

Not my finest hour. 😕

Ratty is very much living up to the ratty this evening.

Very little Spanish squeezed out of him, friends online gaming, we have agreed, as it was pointless, he will get up and do some in the morning before we go in.

"wish I had finished on physics don't we all sweet pea and Spanish wasn't the last one"

@SE13Mummy if dd2 is indeed right it will either have to be ‘now sleeps the crimson petal’ by l’estrange or ‘wherever you walk’ by Handel. However she did also prepare for a trinity grade 7 she never took so might be confused with that as neither contain the word ‘glen’ as far as I’m aware. Glade though? .

Silver same here. Nothing he expected to come up, came up. So he is unsure on how it went but he did find it hard, his friends found it hard too. On here though it seems most found it okay or good, so who knows. Anyway, what's done cannot be undone. I said he has to forget about it all now for a couple of months and just look forward to prom, the summer break and hopefully, some work.

Does anyone want to start a, "Moving for 6th form thread" or does one already exist???

DD has chosen a setting which I agree will be the right move for her, and doesn't appear to know anyone going there so will be a nice fresh start. But y'know us grown-ups might need a hand-hold...

There were some great videos on Instagram for science revision, any for AQA Spanish Higher for the very last hour of revision ever?!

Those looking for jobs- if you have a football stadium near you, they can be good employment for teens. DS started on food when he was under 18 but it was above NMW and post 18 he got a pay rise as he can serve alcohol. He's also just been offered a team leader position. Zero hours but as far as I can see this is all one way- he always gets offered shifts and no negatives if he refuses them. Anything that finishes late has paid taxis home.

Dd is off to college- will suit her better due to more relaxed dress codes as she's bumped up against the super strict uniform rules at school. Since study leave she's pushed more and more boundaries. She's not doing prom so there's no hold over her now. As she said, what are they going to do, stop her sitting the gcses?

The traditional informal post leaver event is on Thurs apparently. They go up to the local nature reserve for a party. The local police know they do this and it is allowed with expectations over behaviour and tidying up obligations. Ds1 did it and ignored my warnings about sticking to beer and tried vodka before falling over and fracturing his ankle. DD has more spirit practice and I can send ds1 to collect her so no worries on the broken limb front.

Thanks for tip off about football stadiums – we have two near us!