Afternoon all,
Thought I might join with our youngster going into Y10, his brother has just finished Y11 and is heading off to college to do A'levels and Little is determined not to make the same Y10 mistakes (flaking about the whole year basically so it took the whole of Y11 at home to catch up, which worked just about, just enough) so we are going to learn from that mistake and I will be on his back like a limpet!
He started his GCSE timetable after May half term, so he is settled into what he needs to do, because he was determined to do the sciences separately he has to take an extra GCSE, so he's doing 10.
He found that dropping the subjects he was fine with but wasn't going to continue so much better. He wants to go to uni to do a maths degree, so a lot of GCSE choices are what he enjoys or thinks he will need. So along with the core and 3 sciences he is doing geography, RE, spanish and drama. He's quite academic and has no social difficulties at school, is also sporty and plans to continue a full afterschool timetable of football and basketball. Honestly his schedule is exhausting just looking at it. But he takes it all in his stride and this is what he has to do if he wants to shoot for the stars!
I think his Eng Lit texts are Macbeth, Inspector Calls, don't know about books, he isn't a natural reader but does it when required and think he's wormed his way into top set somehow (he flirts around english teachers we think).
So that is him. I get little information from him about school, except drama lessons which he loves, those get reenacted in full most days. They seem to involved the boys prancing around in dresses and the girls being bossy! :-) this is a teenage boy's interpretation so we largely just nod along.