Thank you! Is it odd that I keep having to go and double check the piece of paper for that 8. Honestly, never in our wildest dreams did we think she'd pull it out of the hat on that written paper. I am so happy for her.
And yes, I well remember our stresses over Foundation v Higher. I did say if she'd gone for Foundation and got the 5 then she'd be wondering 'what if' with the Higher. And a 4 is a C and more importantly no resits.
The English Lit we've asked for review - but also said no rush to school as it doesn't change anything for her whereas there must be loads of kids where the results of a review could change where they go so they need priority right now. But yes, the bouncing around after the Macbeth just makes me think there is something very off - she doesn't have generous markers as teachers so if they agree I feel confident enough about sending it off.
She'd like the Language looked at, but I've said not to. Too risky to have a review and it would potentially be far too tempting. It feels a big thing now, but it won't be in the future. I've never put my grades on cvs, just have '9 GCSEs (A-C) incl English & Maths' so I said she could do the same.
Lol, I would be very happy if she was the next Billie... suspect she'd replace that with Sabrina 😂. She's been writing since she was 12 and is on a development programme with a label on the back of that - which I pointed out was rather more of an endorsement of her language skills than whatever Edexcel wanted on a random Tuesday in May! She's normally very resilient so I've been surprised how upset she is over it (Geography she could not care less about and that was a 3).