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!

DD is only a 34 B, and normally underwear is easy. But 'The Prom Dress Bra' is proving a problem.

I think she is coming round to the idea of an 'in person' visit - latest suggestion was adding stick-on inserts to to stick-on bra, but I am unsure as to whether that is a safe option. I have suggested boob tape.

The one I ordered off amazon looks lovely but apparently doesn't provide enough lift or cleavage 🙀

I will feed back if I find an eventual solution!

Good luck to all with Spanish, and @Xmasfairy86 hope your DD is just nerves and feels better soon!

“ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE “……🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️??! WT….?!!

Ummmm, how egomaniacal to “assume” , as you say, our DC have the time or inclination to further research random ass stuff, outside of the curriculum, in the off chance the team/ person contributor went off on a whimsy of their own, to write what by all intents was probably a vanity question!!!! .. Total 🦇 💩!!!!! I’m furious, with you!! I was hoping for a 4, at best, for DS…it’s not looking likely at the moment….

Now. Does anyone else remember an alleged exam scandal waaaayyyyyyy back, involving, I’m pretty sure Edexcel…..🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️?! .. Bells have been ringing for some days now….. maybe just a false memory……..🙄!

Just packed DD off in DM’s car. I remember throwing up on the way to a French GCSE exam (happy days), so let’s hope it’s ‘just’ nerves @Xmasfairy86, but I would definitely contact the school.
Good luck to everyone today with exams, revision, bras and boo sucks for random questions.

Grandma is Spanish so I resorted to emotional blackmail as he got out of the grumpy being taxied around pampered prince car, "Try and get a 5 for Grandma" I don't care, I had to pull out the big guns.

He had his, virtually pristine, revision book in his bag, "look over verbs and adjectives, and if a question mentions say churches and parks then listen twice to make sure you are correct that they visited the church yesterday and park tomorrow that sort of thing"

Honestly anyone would think I was asking him to climb ben nevis in nothing but a swimsuit and pair of flipflops.

I am sure it was the worse thing EVA and he doesn't want to talk about it anymore (you and me both sister!) and it's over now what will be will be, and then I will have to endure a good 45 minutes on something utterly irrelevant. I listen to your babble sweetheart. God parenthood and patience go hand in hand don't they!

Tempted to swing by Aldi and scoop up their entire stock of orange wine! But it's probably produced in Spain so will be wrong in some way. Assume tonight is not the night to cook tapas.

I will get little brother to ask how Spanish went, he's nicer to him.

@Sisublondiewhat exam scandal? I know there was an ‘impossible’ maths question that they had to remove a few years ago.

Good luck to all the DC doing Spanish and history today, especially those not feeling well.

I really thought by this week it would all be feeling more chilled - DS only has a few exams left now, and plenty of time in between to put the work in to do well. But I hadn't reckoned on the plummeting energy levels by this stage! We're very much back on eggshell-treading territory 😫

Good luck to all those with history and Spanish today.
@Xmasfairy86 hope she is ok and it was just a one off. As the others said, speak to the exams officer. It hasn’t come up yet at the school I’m invigilating at, but DS said a girl in his year did one of the exams seated near the door with a bucket by her because she was feeling sick, so I’m sure they can do similar for her

@OhCrumbsWhereNowsorry back on the bra topic, and you’ve probably got much better things to do but there is a bra special in this morning today, including a bra you can wear 100 ways…..

How are there 100 ways to wear a bra?? 👀

And thank you!

Sorry your DD was unwell @Xmasfairy86 -hopefully just a one off.
DS is thinking of doing Spanish a level so fingers crossed for a good one today.

Sorry to hear of unwell dc :(
Hopefully it was a one off?
Sd assures me she will revise maths later 🤷‍♀️

The printer has just whizzed out a ‘predicted’ edexcel maths paper 3. Apparently based on all the non examined topics. DS got up early and started his alevel maths. I’m now off to walk the dog!

I have been through all timelines/events of the Weimar Republic and nazi Germany this morning. I’m ready for bed already, but I think he wasn’t to go over it all again…

Thanks

We all went to bed early and it's all looking brighter this morning.

DS is postively chipper this morning despite rest of week being full of exams. One subject done and teachers doing quick celebration with them today which he's looking forward to - plus he said he's been revising months for remaining exams.

DD2 found the elastics easier this morning - less panic I think- it's last full day in she was planning - so we said take elastics out at lunch and don't worry and put them in at home - perhaps not best advice but she stopped worrying and is planning to stop for afternoon maths classes which she was wanting to do all along. Hopefully the hook things will have come by time she home and they will help.

I hope she okay and the school helpful.

I have tendacy to get sick when stressed or tried - so exams and labour I get sick but then feel fine straight afterwards - hopefully it's something like that.

Came out of Spanish smiling!
"he knows the language for listening and reading" apparently. Could've fooled me but there we go. It was only Foundation but he seems upbeat.
Tried asking about subjects but was told nothing more relating to Spanish.

Will press no further (it's just not worth it), bagel snack and on to maths.

Dd said her Spanish listening was “a little dubious”. The reading paper on the other hand took her 22 minutes! Think this is AQA Higher.

@Xmasfairy86 it all incomes down to whether she feels ok.
the 48 hour rule is somewhat abandoned for GCSEs and if she feels fine to do it they should be ok for her to do it! I have seen bins by pupils as well.
if she doesn’t feel well enough that is a different matter
DD hates Spanish but seems ok

That is mad. My Spanish is decent A level standard and I wouldn’t be going at that speed. She’s a rocket 🚀

Even my DD, who is very slow, had plenty of time to check the Spanish Reading. Listening, which is her weakest skill, went as well as can be expected.

DS came out happy with AQA higher Spanish-trying to convince him to get some air and walk the dog with me over lunch ahead of maths work for tmrw.

DD happy with AQA higher Spanish, thinks it went well. Also finished in good time.

She’s now done Spanish, German, Latin and Classical Greek GCSEs. She’s the same in all - mad fast. Anything literature/essay based she finishes right at the last minute!

She seems fine now. Went in at break time and will hopefully make it through history shortly!