DD is currently in Croatia on an orchestra tour - and we have a church week away and a family holiday to Jersey, plus an orchestral course the week of the results, so she couldn't do NCS as well.

She has been set work by all 3 sixth forms she has a place at - one of them has set what I consider to be an excessive amount. She was panicking thinking that she would have to do it all, as her first choice sixth form is very small and had said it would only run courses if there was a minimum number of students, her second choice is a grammar and has high entrance requirements, and the third is the one with the huge workload. Thankfully first choice has confirmed that they will run the science A levels she wants to do even with smaller numbers, so she is now concentrating on their summer work, which isn't too bad, and is mainly maths which she does for fun anyway! But she will still have to get on with it in between all the other activities.
DS intends to stay at his grammar school as long as he gets the required grades. He has not been set any holiday work by the GS or his back up school which is the high school. Setting work seems a bit rough after all the work they had to do for their GCSE'S, especially if they have to do 3 lots like 2childmum junior.
Do other sixth forms set such a lot of pre- A level work? The MFL courses at one of the schools want them to learn the entire first year vocab list before they even start!