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Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorrow

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 10:42 pm
by 2littleboys
...and to their parents too.

I hope the test isn't too gruelling for the children :)

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:44 am
by twomonkeys
Fingers crossed to everyone!

Just sent DS off to school and I'm far more nervous than he is which is fortunately the right way round.

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:03 am
by tropicmama
Same here - I had to appear outwardly cool and chilled when really I could do with a big bar of chocolate or a glass of bubbly right about now (for breakfast). What time do they actually sit the test? I hope it's in the morning as my DS' brain always works better first thing in the morning...

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:36 am
by 2littleboys
tropicmama
The test is at 9am at our school so presumably the same at all of the others.

twomonkeys
You poor thing. My stomach is churning with nerves and my son isn't even sitting the exam this year :roll:

I hope everyone has some fingernails left by the end of the school day.

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:03 am
by tropicmama
2littleboys, mine are long gone! I've started on the chocolate now -- at this hour of day! :?

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:42 am
by 2littleboys
tropicmama :lol:

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:35 am
by Aethel
We had absolute chaos at the Beaconsfield test centre this morning: no clear place to queue resulting in a lump of waiting people, then 15+ minutes of just two ladies checking the paperwork, unable to decide who to ask for (they didn't announce who should come forward, after much procrastinatin they said "a-l" then they said "m-z", then they said "l-l again" , but again no clear directions or announcements.

It would have taken five minutes to arrange eg five tables with volunteer staff or sixth-formers to ask the kids to queue by surname a-d, E-G , h-m, n-s, T-Z , and get them all through.instead it was a stressful and disordered scrum of parents and pupils, hot and anxious.

My DD hates crowds and I felt this really put extra stress on children who didn't need this on an exam day in a strange school.

Nil points, Beaconsfield! I mean, it's not as if you do this every year, is it?.....

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:36 am
by Aethel
PS Sorry to rant, I was just very frustrated!

Good luck to everyone of course!

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:38 am
by Guest55
What happened on Tuesday, was it the same?

Re: Good Luck to all Bucks children taking their 11+ tomorro

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:53 am
by tropicmama
Just heard some feedback about the first paper and apparently it will be pushing the kids :? Does not sound good to me -- on to my second bar of choc! I would need an industrial-sized one come results day at this rate.