Bonjour! I'm also looking forward to starting French, however, I have to say I am nervous considering I've barely done any French for about 8 weeks. I'm also doing German so I am doubly worried! Anyone else feel the same?
In terms of the speaking I wouldn't worry too much about it, we did our German GCSE early so we had some time to prepare for A-level and we did a mock speaking and it isn't so bad as you can prepare to give yourself a good starting point and they allow for mistakes and stuttering, remember that you will only be 17 and one year after GCSE, they don't expect you to to be fluent!