Please help I am felling so stressed about new school?

Question

Hi. I have been moving from school to school because my behaviour is not thar good and today I am going to start this school for people upto 16's and I am nearly 15 but all night I have not got any sleep and even if I did get some sleep I kept waking up. My parents have seen the place and they like it and they said I will enjoy it there. But each time I think of this I feel like crying for some reason, I wanted to know after some time will I get used to it or not because it is hard for me to even breathe and all night I kept crying thinking what will the place be like because after all I have to stay there for my remaining 1 and a half years until I turn 16. Please help and has anyone been in this place I am in today. And one more thing if I do get used to it will time fly quite fast (Please give your honest opinions) because this year has a few months left then I start year 11 GCSE'S. I can't wait to leave school for good because since I was a kid I have never liked school and my parents say this is like a practical school mostly where you o practical things so I don't really know.

Answer 1

practical as in felling !



i left school at 15 then to an engineering works i feel sorry for you people who have to stay in those dreadful places.



thing is to ride it out the best you can remember confidence is an act that you can perform and then you will learn things quicker and better. so go in face held high. bullying is a fact of life mostly the teachers are powerless or basicaly couldn't care less its a good idea not to be at the bottom gain yourself some respect and the act of confidence will help plus most bullying is about bluff so face it out. but its not good being at the top either staying there is hard work. worry is good it means you care and maybe you will improve. if you go with other new starters there will be other scared kids as well share your fears it will help and others will look to you its called breaking the ice and gets you talking. if the only starter thinking is worse than doing it forces you to paddle right off and you pass from group to group till you find your niche in the hierarchy good luck

Answer 2

You should try not to worry about school so much, I had a tough time in school so I made a lot of plans for my future, what I wanted to be, what I wanted to do and what trips I'd like to go on in my future. It helped motivate me a lot and even though I'm not going in that direction anymore it helped me escape from bullies, and the whole 'I-hate-school' thoughts.

Lots of people don't like school and you probably hear the whole 'you'll regret it when you're older', and you may, or you may not but the thing is, you're in school right now so just make the most of it, you can't always think my life will be better after i get out of this place because in a lot of cases it won't be, especially if you keep a really negative outlook on school.

Answer 3

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You also do not need to take as many GCSE's as you would at School (if at all) -typically it's 5 A-C grades to get into College, although not all courses need that many and there are opportunities to take GCSE's at College or at Adult Education Classes later too if you did not get them at home. Some College courses such as BTEC First Diploma are equivalent to GCSE's, so you would not need GCSEs I. There are of course other options such as apprenticeships and NVQs too.



Some Home Educated children skip GCSE's altogether and go straight to A Levels later (at College or at home) or Open University which at the moment is free (course fees are assessed on yours and not your Parents income).College courses are fully funded up to the age of 18 and older in certain circumstances



There is not cut off point to getting your qualifications, my oldest son is at University and there is a huge age range of people on his course, he is one of the youngest, but there are students there in their forties and fifties too. I think myself it is very important to enjoy your learning, because that will stay with you for the rest of your life and you will learn to see it in a positive rather than a negative way.



So as you can see there are many different ways to get an education with or without School, I think choices is the key answer here, sitting down with your Parents and going through your options and seeing what suits you best. Importantly for you feeling that you have some control over your life and learning options and this will reflect in a positive way on how you feel emotionally and so then how you do academically



Whether you decided to try Home Education or not, I think for you to know that you have this option open to you, will take a huge pressure off at School knowing there is an alternative.

Answer 4

properly first you attempt to handle lots on one plate. Time administration is elementary. Plan your dates and homework out on a calendar, or someone the position you'll continuously see it, and bypass from there. i'm in college so this is quite key to get the carry of it (some thing i'm nevertheless attempting to do), and take one bit off at a time. Take little chunks, spend 0.5 hour on one situation, yet another 0.5 hour on yet another, and slowly you receives issues executed on time :D also, have relaxing, manage your self each once in a while. Get some sparkling air, take a wreck, relax for somewhat then handle some more beneficial :D do not attempt to take each thing on straight away (I do an similar, then issue myself with it).

Answer 5

There are many children that don't fit into School for any number of reasons. Some are School refusers, some cope by taking large amounts of time off School, some go through attending School but suffer in other ways.



My youngest son was deeply unhappy at School, and although I tried for some years to put things right, I finally came to the conclusion that if a child is traumatised and unhappy at School for whatever reason, then at the end of the day all of their energies are going to be taken up with their anxieties and fears and that of course that leaves very little of themselves left open to learning - the whole purpose of being at School!



Is your Dad open to the possibility of Home Education? Is the cost the only thing that is putting him off? There are many different ways to Home Educate and it can really be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. Here are some links and examples that you might find helpful.



Some online Schools in the UK are:



http://www.firstcollege.co.uk/

http://www.briteschool.co.uk/



These are live virtual classes where you do your work at the pc with a group of other kids in the same virtual class. This is probably the most expensive option with fees of typically £2,500 a year for your year group.



There are also Companies providing curriculum packs for School year groups and IGCSE if that is the way you want to go, have a look at this website here:



http://www.structuredhomelearning.com

http://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk/



One of my sons came out of School in Year 8 and the other in Year 5 and have really enjoyed learning at home, it's given them much more freedom and time to take on other interests as the amount of time they have needed to spend on their learning at home has been far less than at School. My son that came out in Year 8 went on to take all his GCSE's and A Levels at home and has had time to start his own business. Your Parents don't need to be Teachers at all - (I'm not)



Other Home Education websites that might be of use are:



http://www.education-otherwise.org/

http://www.thenuk.com/

http://www.home-education.org.uk/

http://home-ed.info/



There are other alternatives to online schooling, and personally we never took that route ourselves.



With GCSE's there are correspondence courses available through NEC, ICS and Oxford Home Learning. These courses have Tutors that mark your work as you go through the course.This way of learning didn't suit us, but it does suit some people. NEC and ICS courses can be bought with Tesco Club-card vouchers if you collect those at all.



There are a number of Home Education groups all doted around the Country and have small learning groups where they share Tutors and the cost of this can be around £5 an hour. There are a number of these where I live and in most GCSE subjects and KS3 courses too. To find your local Home Education Group and see what they have to offer look here:

http://www.education-otherwise.org/local…



Some Home Education Groups (depending on where you are in the Country) have arrangements where children can attend College or Adult Education Classes too for free.



Our learning has been relatively cheap, we use the internet a lot, there are some great websites available (google 'KS4 online' or KS4 or GCSE online resources') and a host of websites will come up in just about every subject. There are second hand text books available on Ebay and Amazon and we use the shared Tutors for a couple of subjects (not all). If you want to follow the National Curriculum or GCSE's this information can be downloaded free online. The AQA website has a syllabus of all the subjects you need to learn for GCSE's ( so it is easy to buy the right books) and also past exam papers to practice with.



A great (But not free) resource for Maths is Conquermaths, where each maths lesson is broken down by a tutor in easy to explain steps. There is a discount for home educators.



The benefit of working from home is that you will not need as much time with your subjects as you do in School and many Home Educated children take their GCSE's early but take their subjects over 2/3 years. You will need to pay to take your GCSEs. - more here:

http://home-ed.info/gcse.htm