Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

It's hiking, actually - and I could actually use CFR's phone to get them from a mountainside - if I wasn't threatened with death if I didn't get an A* in latin. Besides, I'm hoping to pick them up at CH on the 29th if School Office is open.

Mrs C. wrote:My daughter got hers today too- relief all round as she got into her first choice uni.

Congratulations Miss C!!

Mine didn't get quite the grades she was hoping for but she got her first choice place, as did the daughter of the woman I work with.

Thank goodness.

I wasn't too nervous until about 10 o'clock (they were collecting them at 11.30) and then I started feeling sick, it is worse being the parent than the student I think.

englishangel wrote: it is worse being the parent than the student I think.

Um. I think most students would probably disagree

englishangel wrote:Mine didn't get quite the grades she was hoping for but she got her first choice place, as did the daughter of the woman I work with.

Thank goodness.

I wasn't too nervous until about 10 o'clock (they were collecting them at 11.30) and then I started feeling sick, it is worse being the parent than the student I think.

Congratulations Miss EA too!

It's not worse being the parent but it certainly is very stressful!!

Congratulations to Miss C and Miss EA: good luck to Gemma and Josh.
We got our results on postcards and I can still remember the postman coming up the path calling "It's OK, youv'e passed"

Maggie

Congratulations to all who have done well.

Maggie, for us we had postcards for O levels and envelopes for A levels. O levels we wrote our subjects on the post card and DR filled in the grades in her ink. She put 'Well done' on the bottom of mine - perhaps she did on all. We were then expected to write a letter to each of our teachers to tell them how we had done and to thank them for teaching us.

Miss C. says thank you!
Hopefully Miss C. The Younger will be just as happy next week!

Goodness, Katharine! I don't remember the requirement to write to our teachers.... how silly is that? They must have KNOWN how well we did at O and A level.. not least because their performance must have been judged against our achievements in national exams?
I echo everyone else's congratulations to the offspring of members today, but my support is tempered by the fact that one 18 year old, close to me, who got AAB (the B was for Drama, a notoriously subjective subject but , believe me, he is brilliant....) as a result of which has been told today that he has lost his AAA place at Oxford to read Music, on a prestigious choral scholarship (he was the ONLY Tenor to apply to this particuar College this year and was accepted enthusiastically by the College's Director of Music, a national icon....). The potential and now disappointed student is the son of an Old Blue (not a member of the Forum) and I feel desperate for him. At this point now he has so many options. At 18 how can he possibly be sure to make the right decision at this crossroads in his life....... Either hold out, do a year singing voluntarily somewhere and resit the Drama A level (or do a totally different subject again, somewhere else?) and hope his Oxford place stays open; or forget Oxford and go now somewhere else like Bristol, who have offered him an unconditional place and an unconditional Lay Clerkship in the Cathedral Choir.
If it were you, what would YOU do?
Please bear this chap, Tom, in your thoughts tonight.. that the right decision for him will emerge. In the meantime, his parents are determined that this is not 'failure', so the champagne is flowing as I speak, anyway....
Kerren

kerrensimmonds wrote:Goodness, Katharine! I don't remember the requirement to write to our teachers.... how silly is that? They must have KNOWN how well we did at O and A level.. not least because their performance must have been judged against our achievements in national exams?

I distinctly remember trying to compose those letters, not so easy for the subjects where you got a D or E. Yes - in those far off days it was possible to get those grades at O level and then go on to Oxbridge (for a different subject)

kerrensimmonds wrote:I echo everyone else's congratulations to the offspring of members today, but my support is tempered by the fact that one 18 year old, close to me, who got AAB (the B was for Drama, a notoriously subjective subject but , believe me, he is brilliant....) as a result of which has been told today that he has lost his AAA place at Oxford to read Music, on a prestigious choral scholarship (he was the ONLY Tenor to apply to this particuar College this year and was accepted enthusiastically by the College's Director of Music, a national icon....). The potential and now disappointed student is the son of an Old Blue (not a member of the Forum) and I feel desperate for him. At this point now he has so many options. At 18 how can he possibly be sure to make the right decision at this crossroads in his life....... Either hold out, do a year singing voluntarily somewhere and resit the Drama A level (or do a totally different subject again, somewhere else?) and hope his Oxford place stays open; or forget Oxford and go now somewhere else like Bristol, who have offered him an unconditional place and an unconditional Lay Clerkship in the Cathedral Choir.
If it were you, what would YOU do?
Please bear this chap, Tom, in your thoughts tonight.. that the right decision for him will emerge. In the meantime, his parents are determined that this is not 'failure', so the champagne is flowing as I speak, anyway....

What a horrid dilemma for all Kerren. From the sounds of it the college's Direcor of Music couldn't sway it with others at the college to take Tom this year. My reaction would be 'Don't rush into a decision, take a couple of days, at least, to decide' I don't know enough about it at the moment, but as he knows there is an insurance place at Bristol he should take until their final date to find out about other options. May he feel better in a few days.

Echoing you all - good luck and congratulations to all and sundry. Regardless of results - the retention of sanity through exams is something to be proud of! Sadly I lost mine before them...but still.

Just noticed something! With Gemma in Germany, I could use this time as a sneaky way of narrowing the post count gap with her! I reeeeally want to be a dep by next term - so I can keep up with my year!

I agree with you all!. Though I am deepöy thankful the way we recieve our results has changed now.

don't even think about it.! Josh. I may be in Berlin but I can still access a computer. I'm so nervous abotu results.




GERMANY IS FAB btw. We havn't got rip roaring drunk '(yet ) but it has been great.

Gemma.. How can you be having a 'fab time' in Berlin and also be 'Unbelievably bored'?
Erm...?
This question comes from a dinosaur, but......

Those of us with teenage children know that being bored equates with normality. There is a whole new use of English out there - like.

Wot eva.