Hello! So over the past year of year 11 a lot of unfortunate events have taken place which I think will really impact my GCSE results and I'm worried that I won't be able to take the A levels I want to do.
These events include: bad attendance due to bullying trauma, no accommodation from the school for a smaller space to do my gcses even though I had panic attacks in the hall during my mocks because it was so overwhelming with so many people, my English teacher died 2 weeks before gcses, I didn't have a science teacher for 6 months as they had cancer and had a seizure in the school- leading to consistent supply teachers until the parents complained enough, lack of resources at home (I live in a household where we live on straight up benefits so textbooks and laptops aren't affordable), my mum went to hospital midway through gcses for a operation and I was left home alone with my younger brother for a week and came back to school to do English language paper 1 violently nauseas due to undercooked food.
I emailed the college I want to go to about how my grades may not be enough and how I might have to retake english language and maths and they responded that I'd have to take a level 3 extended course at another campus whilst retaking both but none of them appeal to me and I just really want to do the a levels no matter what to be honest. They don't know about my reasoning above but if I do end up failing both, what should I do to convince them to let me do what I wanna do?
(I also predict if I fail both I'll have 3 gcses as I only took 8 originally- also I think I'll get 3s in both if I do fail so it's not a far reach)