So happy and proud today of my two eldest grandchildren. Exams results out and the eldest with "A"s in Physics, Chemistry, English, Design Portfolio and a "B" in Maths is off to Strathclyde University in September to study engineering. His younger brother is now moving into 5th year with an "A" in maths and "B"s in Physics, Chemistry, Computing and English (bodes well for the future too).
Please forgive a very proud gran, but with all that's happened in my life too very recently, this is the icing on the cake.
Don't have comprehensive schools in Scotland mikey, just common or garden secondary schools. They are both at St Machar Academy in Aberdeen which (despite its name) is just an ordinary secondary school and caters for all abilities.
congrats maggiebee, that reminds me to call my sisters' as to their kids....saw my middle one in Jan and we were chatting away about predictions, her number two, a girl, being predicted for 2As and a B - as my sister said, if you had told me that when L was ten, I would have laughed in your face. She's already been given an unconditional at a good Uni as she's just joined a full England sports squad (perhaps next Olympics?) and is also on a N.of England sqad in another sport.
Peter, maths students brawling at an OU ss, surely not? We were all so well behaved at the ones I went to. It was the psychology students you had to worry about. :)
not releasing which sports yet for security on here...I have another niece who's on the England junior sqad for Jogger's one of sports. It's all the young women in the family as my eldest has gone to 3rd Dan in Taekwondo and her sister is a hotshot junior archery squad member in the States.
Strathclyde used to have a very good reputation for engineering in my time ....I wouldn't go into the Union though - they used to have a net hanging there two floors up for any one who fell off the upper floor balconies after too many Buckies. Any ideas of what the younger one wants to study yet?