This is the Message Centre for Beatrice
2 little stars (take 2)
Beatrice Started conversation Aug 24, 2006
GCSE results today.
My monsters had both done their French in 1 year, on their return from Luxembourg.
Daughter (just turned 13, about to start 2nd year) got an A. I phoned the result to her, and after screaming with delight she said "Oh Mum, I'm crying"
"So am I!" I replied.
Son (15, about to go and do the rest of his GCSEs this coming academic year) got an A*.
When I phoned him he said "
sweet! Now I can be a linguist in the Navy!"
I'm especially gald he got such a result, as he's the less academic of the pair, and needs a good boost to keep him keen for what is probably his last year at school.
So, yeah, what a couple of stars! We're all thrilled to bits.
2 little stars (take 2)
Fizzymouse- no place like home Posted Aug 24, 2006
Brilliant
What more can I say
You must be so proud
2 little stars (take 2)
Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Aug 25, 2006
For them both to paste on their foreheads! Wonderful news!
(Now, could I please get the translation of what those GSCHNMB letters mean? Feeling lost and foreign again)
2 little stars (take 2)
Beatrice Posted Aug 25, 2006
Apologies Milla 
and welcome back - nice holiday?
GCSE
General Certificate of Secondary Education.
Used to be known as O levels.
They're the main exams that children sit before leaving school, and grades are very important to future emplyers/ universities etc.
2 little stars (take 2)
Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Aug 25, 2006
Thanks! Lovely holiday! actually off this week too - school started yesterday, and am cleaning out attic to make room for remodeling! 
Are these exams taken every year, or at certain intervals? (Your children aren't twins as I remember...) Or only before leaving - so can use them to apply for uni?
I thought them bairns were too young for uni??
2 little stars (take 2)
Spankmunki: The Answer is Lemons. Next break in the current workload due mid-December. Posted Aug 25, 2006
Congratulations! Though I think some 
rather than for the little s 
2 little stars (take 2)
Beatrice Posted Aug 26, 2006
For Milla's benefit:
Yes, GCSEs are normally sat at the end of 5th form (Confusingly called year 12 - 5 at secondary and 7 years at primary school)
But they can be sat earlier if the pupils are capable of it.
2 little stars (take 2)
You can call me TC Posted Aug 26, 2006
Brilliant! Great!
It makes you forget all the gripes you have about them, doesn't it. And it's quite an achievement, as they may have picked up the lingo in Luxembourg, but writing it is a completely different kettle of 
2 little stars (take 2)
Sho - employed again! Posted Aug 26, 2006
that's great - especially in light of the disaster that is happening with moden language learning in the UK right now.
Key: Complain about this post
2 little stars (take 2)
- 1: Beatrice (Aug 24, 2006)
- 2: Fizzymouse- no place like home (Aug 24, 2006)
- 3: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Aug 25, 2006)
- 4: Beatrice (Aug 25, 2006)
- 5: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Aug 25, 2006)
- 6: KB (Aug 25, 2006)
- 7: Spankmunki: The Answer is Lemons. Next break in the current workload due mid-December. (Aug 25, 2006)
- 8: KB (Aug 25, 2006)
- 9: Teuchter (Aug 25, 2006)
- 10: loosehead (Aug 25, 2006)
- 11: Beatrice (Aug 26, 2006)
- 12: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Aug 26, 2006)
- 13: You can call me TC (Aug 26, 2006)
- 14: Sho - employed again! (Aug 26, 2006)
- 15: toybox (Aug 27, 2006)
More Conversations for Beatrice
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."