Year 9 support thread

[Cornishbelle]

Is there already a year 9 support thread from 2025/26? I've searched and searched with no success! If anyone could link one I would be grateful don't want to start a duplicate

I haven't seen any, This could be the start!

Y9 has started well but the amount of homework has ramped up considerably which has obviously made DS annoyed.

DS doesn't have to make his option choices until the Spring but his science teacher has insinuated that he will be doing Triple Science (I'm still thinking in 90s GCSE terms!) which is fine as he does love Science. He knows he wants to drop Art and DT but that is as far as he has got.

How has your coped with the first month?

Hi @Cornishbelle! We had a thread going from Y7, but we didn’t post on it that much in Y8. I think @Sazzlesw2 was on there too.
Thanks for starting a new one!
I will tag some of the familiar faces from the old thread:
@twistyizzy
@elvendreamer
@gingeristhenewblack43
@Walkingbkwrm
@HalfasleepChrisintheMorning
@ChocHotolate

I’m struggling to get DS back into the zone with schoolwork - he’s gone full on teenaged can’t be bovvered at the moment 😩
I find it difficult to balance giving him decompression time after school, and getting him to crack on with homework! It’s looking more and more like I need to sit and supervise him, which sucks for Y9 (he is AuDHD, so self-discipline is really not his strong point)

I think he chooses his options in the Spring. I really don’t know what he is going to go for at the moment!

Any teacher will tell you that year 9 is the hardest to teach. You only have to deal with one at a time! :)

Place marking as making dinner

Ah thanks for the thread and tagging me @TeaandHobnobs

Hope all the DCs are settled, i cant believe wevare Yr 9 already!
DD has begun GCSE content in maths and all 3 sciences which I find mind blowing 🤯

Homework has ramped up from 2 x 30 mins per night to 3 x 40 mins per night but she has 2 free periods per week for independent study so it uprising these to ease the load on an evening.
She is also attending the weekly maths and physics workshops which are helping her with these subjects.

Thanks @TeaandHobnobs glad to find a space to chat with others. Only a month in and finding it hard going, having very similar issues to you from the sounds of it. DS in full on teenager mode, he's always kept up with homework with some nagging but I'm really trying to dial back on the checking in etc (maybe not the best approach). He has a test next week that will go towards determining if he gets entered for triple or double science. He seems to struggle massively with motivation and I'm trying to help him get into a routine but any sign on too much pushing backfires.

Homework struggles here today, for some reason he has left the hardest bits until today. Asked him to make a start on it, went in an hour later to find him lying on his bed because he can't think of 10 sentences to write (MFL HW). Have told him to take a break and think of the sentences in English first and then translate.

Not looking forward to him doing the DT project he left until the last minute later. Not sure we will see him until dinner due to procrastination!

It's so frustrating isn't it @Sazzlesw2 , hope he has managed to get done

Mine is in year 9 too. AuTAdhd too. So difficult!

I think that GCSEs come at exactly the wrong time ie in the depths of raging hormones etc. So the pressure from schools ramps up at exactly the time that many are least receptive to it.
Most teachers I know say Yr 8-10 are the worst and then by Yr 11 they are starting to settle.