All the girls’s exams are now finished. Jacqueline has completed her IGCSEs and Stephanie has finished her A-Level A2 exams.

Jacqueline did her Silver Public Speaking exam for LAMDA a couple of weeks ago, so we now have a break from those exams until November.

We are awaiting the results in August.

One chapter closes and a new one begins.

Jacqueline is going to College in September to do a Drama course, so let’s hope she has a better experience than Stephanie did with her A-Levels.

Summer holidays are here – we could just do with a bit of sunshine!

Amanda

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Jacqueline passed her Grade 6 (Bronze) LAMDA award for Musical Theatre with a Merit.

She now has 215 UCAS points from LAMDA Speech and Drmaa Awards. Stephanie has 315 and that excludes her points from the AS exams last Summer.

Well done to both.
Amanda

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This is a video that we made of Jackie. She is hula-hooping for a competition run by Total Greek Yoghurt. The idea is to hula-hoop for as a long as possible without letting the hoop drop to the ground.

Click on the Q symbol below the picture to start the video.

She hula- hooped for 34 minutes and 34 seconds with a hoop that weighs approximately 4 kg (approx 8 and 1/2 lbs).

Jackie was out in the garden, where the grass is a bit slippery because our lounge is too small for us to be able to get all of her (and her huge hoop) in the frame of the video camera.

I have seen her hula-hoop for more than an hour with that heavy hoop when she is indoors and standing on a hard floor.

I have also seen her dancing about and doing squats!!!!! (yes – really, whilst hula-hooping and managing to keep that heavyweight hoop around her waist or hips.

Unfortunately she did not win the competition as she got pipped at the post in the extended time.

We were not aware that her time had been beaten, as I am sure the very competitive side of her (inherited from her dad!) would have kicked in and she would have done a longer video!

I am incredibly proud of her as I can’t hula-hoop at all.

Well done, Jackie.

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Jacqueline had her interview and audition for a place on a BTEC Diploma in Performing Arts yesterday. This course is very practical and includes a lot of actual performance work.

I am so delighted and proud to announce that she was accepted and will start in September 2012.

She needs one more IGCSE at a Grade C or above. She is taking 4 subjects in the Summer, so she will have passes in 7 subjects in total.

Well done Jacqueline. We are so thrilled for you.

This was celebrated in true Goldston style with a large cake!

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Jacqueline received her certificate for her Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award and also her National Navigation Bronze Award at a recent ceremony to celebrate the achievements of young people in the town.

Well done Jacqueline, we are really proud of you.

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we have just received Jacqueline’s IGCSE ICT results. She has passed with a High C.

That is a huge relief.

This was one of the harder subjects to take as there were 3 exams, including 2 practical papers.

She needs 5 subjects at A* – C to get into College and now has 3 subjects that fall into that category. She is taking 4 more in the Summer.

We are now waiting to hear about her College Application. As she wants to study Drama, there will be an interview and an audition.

Amanda Goldston

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We have had the results for the last LAMDA exams:
Jacqueline – Grade 7 Acting – High Merit and Grade 7 Verse and Prose. These were the highest set of marks she has received. She was only 3 marks off a Distinction in one of the disciplines. This gives her quite a few more UCAS points.
Stephanie – Grade 7 – Musical Theatre- She did this exam with her boyfriend and both of them got a Merit. She also got a Distinction in her Grade 7 Mime.

Well done everyone!

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Jacqueline has  now completed the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) IGCSE exams with CIE.  These had 2 practical papers and a theory paper, so there was a lot to do. Results come out in January 2012, so we are keeping our fingers crossed for Jacqueline.

Jacqueline takes the rest of her subjects – Maths, Physics and Geography in Summer 2012. She may also take Environmental Management. We are not sure about that right now because one college course includes an Environmental Management  course as part of the Curriculum and one doesn’t , so it depends on where she decides to go at 16  and which course she takes, as to whether we take that one as an IGCSE in  Summer 2012.

She is now looking at her options for College, as we have to make her application in January 2012 for her to start in September 2012. She will have 6 or 7 IGCSEs to carry her forward. Stephanie got into College to do A-Levels with 7 x IGCSEs, so Jacqueline will have plenty to be able to do what she wants to do.

How the time has flown by. Stephanie is in her second year of A-Levels and Jacqueline is in the final few months of home education. It seems hardly 5 minutes since we started home education in April 2007.

We continue to be busy with LAMDA exams, with the next ones coming up shortly.

As well as all their other activities, both Stephanie and Jacqueline are now starting Boxacise classes.

Busy Times.

Amanda Goldston

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We were very pleased with the results of the exams in the summer.

Jacqueline got an A in English Language IGCSE and a B in English Literature IGCSE. This is taking them just as she has turned 15. We were particularly pleased with the English Literature because we have not done that subject before.

Stephanie did well in her AS exams. She got Maths (A), Psychology (A), Chemistry (B),  Biology (D) and Anthropology (C).

She was not particularly bothered about Anthropology as the course has not turned out to be as interesting as she had hoped and expected. With the Biology, she had a very poor teacher and spent a lot of the year making posters and playing games!

At the moment she us continuing with 3 A2 subjects in college and taking the fourth one at home, although we are working on getting that changed. After a conversation with the College, she is now taking all 4 subjects in College.

Greg got an A* in his GCSE Chemistry, which he did at night school. That has been a bug bear since he was at school at his school did not offer the facilities for pupils to take both Physics and Chemistry at O-Level, so he choose Physics at the time.

In the LAMDA exams, Jacqueline got another Grade 6 pass and now has 150 UCAS points. Stephanie got 2 x Merits in her Grade 7 LAMDA. In combination with her AS results, she now has 520 UCAS points.

Stephanie is now going into her second year of A-Levels, Jacqueline has another year at home and we will be taking a few more IGCSEs over the next 12 months and then she is off to College.

Well done everyone. We are all really pleased with the results.

We are now back into all the other activities – Brownies, Rainbows, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Rangers, Riding, Speech and Drama and Stephanie has started freestyle disco dancing, as well as going to the gym. Busy times ahead!

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Jacqueline now has one paper left on her English Literature exam, which is next week. We have then completed English Language, English Literature and Maths, with results due in August.

We will be working in the ICT and the History before her friends break up from school at the end of July. The ICT exams are in October. We will be starting Physics and Geography in September to take next Summer.

We have started looking at College courses for Jacqueline for September 2012. She is quite clear on the direction she wants to go in, which is really excellent.

Stephanie has got one exam left to complete her 5 AS subjects and her first year of College. She will be dropping one subject and carrying on with four subjects to A2 Level.

Both girls passed their last LAMDA exams in March and the time has come round so quickly, that we now have the next lot in a couple of weeks. They are both accumulating UCAS points.

Jacqueline has done her practice expedition for her Duke of Edinburgh Award. The real thing is in a couple of weeks and she will have then successfully completed her Bronze Award.

Summer is looking like it will be quite busy. Jacqueline already has an international guide camp booked, as well as two weeks at drama schools.

There are a couple of outdoor theatre productions by Heartbreak Productions that we will be going to in the next few weeks, with a large picnic in tow!

As ever, Goldston taxi service is going to be busy!

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