Hello,
I am a year 11 student , who is currently taking a fine art GCSE, as well as a textiles GCSE.
My mother also did an art GCSE (O levels at the time) and went onto do a degree in art and so on. She puts extreme pressures on me, wanting me to live up to the expectations she was given when my age- and often gets stressed with it.
Me and my mother do not get along very well; we like very different things, our ways of thinking too. My mother does not understand that, believing that something is wrong with me when I do not think what she thinks. At the moment my GCSE art predicted final mark is a grade 9, while my textiles is a grade 3. When I try to maintain my grade 9 in art, my textiles grade falls as there is not enough time in the day to do both for me. ( I do extra maths, extra history, and extra English tuition too as struggle academically.) My textiles teacher does not like me, I try my best with the time I have- and the fact is that I am just not very good at textiles. She is constantly telling me to stay behind after school, miss out on art catchup events to do textiles ones, give up my breaks and lunch times too. I struggle to say no to teachers, so I have almost no free time at all after everything I have said.
Does any previous or current students doing these subjects have any advice on how to balance art and textiles? I just don't think its possible + the GCSE exams are in three weeks. I really just wanted to write this down to get how I feel out, so I don't mind if no one replies to my question.
Thank you very much,
Moominandsnufkin