Sixth Form - what to do?

Hi,

Right I have recently started sixth form at a brand new school, I was always at a small school during senior school so the transition has been a big shock to me. I am studying the international baccalaureate, and really enjoy the syllabus content and apart from a few relatively small hiccups am finding it relatively okay.

The issue is however that my health is really poor at the moment, my immune system is really low and i seem to contract every virus/cold/cough going and am missing quite a lot of time from school. This is also connected to a few dietary issues that I have, lack of vitamins etc and although i am in the process of sorting this out, it does still affect me.

I would not lie to you and say that I am a silly person, at GCSE i achieved 8A*s and 2A*s and I have big ideas for my life at university and beyond. I know what I want to achieve and I hope that I will get there, but will it be better for me to restart next year and have a good whack at it when I feel better?

This could all sound really silly, but the thing is I just don't know when I feel better so its difficult to guarantee when I will be in school and the ib is not really a self teach qualification.

let me know what you think... just need some advice on this one, should the discussion appear at home.

Reply 1

GentlemanOfTheRoad

my friend was ill last year for IB so she's repeating IB year 1. You may have to do that.

Reply 2

bethan_louise

i had glandular fever for the last four months of my first year at IB and all through the summer so i had to take a lot of time off school as well, but i havent' found it that difficult to catch up, however that may be because it was close to the end of the year so i'd already done a large chunk of the syllabus...its quite difficult to say with you because its impossible to tell whether or not your downplaying it, because if you are missing a significant amount of school and really aren't up to strength then it may be a good idea to take time off; my ib coordinator makes us put our health before anything else, and i completely agree with that! if you get better by, say march or something then you dont even need to bum around wasting time until september, you could get a job and save up money so you dont have to work at all when you restart school :smile: