ADHD teen mock exams/school just fed up

[Scorpio8]

I know I probably haven't been on top of keeping an eye on my son and his education but have tried.

I contacted all his teachers and asking them how he is getting on. Some emailed back told me he doing okay and some said he need to do more etc. I was concerned emailed the senco lady and head of year no response.
I said you need to do this after school. Go to the sessions after school to help you. He doing some now I think.

My health not been good and he knew he had to revise for mocks and he hasn't. I honestly don't know what the school been doing to help.

From last parents meeting online seems like senco gave up saying he can do cooking at college. Like he doesn't matter if he fails.

There really is nothing more I can do but you think if he wasn't doing certain things they would email me or contact me. Like they emailed about extra session for maths and said yes it's important for him to do that and he trying.

When year 11 when is best to start revising?

Context of my reply:
My DD1 has dyspraxia and needed 1-1 help with revision as otherwise she couldn't organise it and her mind wandered, but she did work hard.
My DD2 missed all y11 due to MH reasons and left school with 4 GCSEs at grade 3, but has just completed a year at college on a level 1 course whilst continuing her recovery.

At this point I think you need to see what his results are. Then discuss aspirations and what he will need to achieve them for 6th form / college. For A levels he would needs 6s/7s in his chosen subjects, for a Level3 course at college he will need something like 5 passes including English & Maths. If he doesn't get that he could do a Level 2 or even Level 1 course and work up.

In order to meet his goals you may feel it necessary to be selective in revision. e.g. Is it better to focus on science but ignore History.

When to start revision? This is what we did.

For DD1 we had a target that by the end of the summer holidays between y10 & y11 she would have revision cards/notes/mind maps for all content covered in y10 (&y9 if applicable). I suspect we also worked on maths over the summer as she had a tendency to forget her maths if she had too long a break.

Then in y11 again it was make good notes for any end of unit test, and try to keep up with notes at the end of every unit.

Her mocks were January so Christmas holidays was when revision began un earnest, with 5 days off over xmas but otherwise some solid revision each day.

Then after that we divided time into phases something like this:
Phase 1 was stuff she didn't understand / couldn't do as shown by her mocks. In her case that was primarily English Language. Feb-March
Phase 2 was learning everything that hadn't been covered in mocks (they only did select papers) March-April
Phase 3 was learning everything for exams before half term, and some stuff for after half term if possible, incl practice papers Easter->Half term
Phase 4 was learning everything else incl practice papers Half-term-end

By knowing your goals for each half term wrt revision it breaks it from being 12 months of 'revision' into smaller tasks.

Also there are good online tools that can be worked in such as Seneca or Tassomai which your DS might find better. Again you can set goals for use of them.

(sorry that was ever so long)

Sorry for the rant.

Thanks for your advice on how to help him revise.

No thanks for taking out you time to write all that.
I feel so failed him, school has and he just failed himself.
I just know whatever happens he will need to go college to get his GCSES.
Have no idea how to get him motivated. Everything seems too hard for him and I am not qualified to help teach him educational stuff.
Thank you again.

Mainly at college you can only retake Maths & English Language, and you do that alongside a L2 or L1 course. You don't get to retake random things. And it's a real pain as you can't focus on your new course.

With your DS do you think it is 'can't be bothered' or 'finds it hard to know where to start?' If you helped him structure revision and then eg weekly reviewed with him what he has done, would that help him? Maybe working through the Seneca modules for his courses would keep him focused and you could track the time spent?

If you really think he is likely to fail the lot, then picking 5 to work on might seem more manageable? What are his strengths? Have you had discussions yet about post-y11?

Our DS has sadly just crashed out of A levels in y13 and quit school. Couldn’t face continuing. Late diagnosis of ADHD (Aug 2022) and anxiety. What now? What is the best way for DS to get back in saddle - what are options? Mainstream School plus tutors in 2023, internet schooling, home schooling for 2 years? We are at a total loss as to what is best. He got okay GCSEs but the step up to A level never worked and he got overwhelmed. Advice welcome.

Sorry - posted in wrong place