How do I prepare for entering year 10 when I'm in a disruptive form?

I don't think I will be able to focus this year due to my form being so silly. It's funny sometimes but not a lot of people get to learn and I certainly didn't. In certain subjects, were in sets so I'm not always with my form. This means I can concentrate and do my work properly in subjects like maths, English, science, history and geography. For my GCSE's, I picked music, drama and iMedia which is added to the core subjects I get taught regardless of what I chose. In music and imedia, I know a lot of people from my form and other forms who are especially disruptive and can't behave in lessons who have also chosen these options. I don't know how I'll be able to work. In recent months my grades have dropped by a lot in subjects like that. I can't afford for that to happen in Year 10. My family and teachers expect so much of me and if I fail, they say they are disappointed in me for not reaching their standards. I don't want that to happen this year. I don't want to conform to what they want of me but I kinda have to. I have a choice to ignore them but if I ever backchat teachers or tell them I'm trying my best, as they are very religious and strict, I'm threatened with a place called reset (often isolation and you do your work on a laptop in a room with a teacher or wellbeing staff) and sometimes suspension. It's so annoying and I wish my class was different and sensible so I could complete my tasks in peace. Sorry for the rant but if anyone has any advice on how to confidently study, I'd love to hear it. Thanks so much<3

Reply 1

DerDracologe

Study Forum Helper

Hi! I had a similar situation in a lot of my classes in year 9 but going into year 10 quite a lot of the rowdy people calmed themselves down a bit because they felt a purpose to be there.
I know its rough and people say this a lot but the best thing you can do is to ignore the other kids, they will have to learn the hard way that goofing around in class makes it harder for them to study later on.
Instead of talking back to teachers or getting defensive, if you’re getting distracted maybe politely ask to be moved to a different seat. Also try to resist the temptation of reacting to these kids, sometimes theyre trying to be funny because it gets them a reaction which distracts from them having to do any hard work.
Also your teachers might be more strict with behaviour expectations, a lot of mine were because they want students to get good results and in GCSE years they have to deliver content quite fast to get through it all in time so they dont want to have to be repeating themselves because some kids weren’t listening.
If you find yourself missing a concern amount of content, ask for the lesson slides to be uploaded on teams or something so you can work through them during the lesson if it isnt moving fast enough for you. Also maybe send your teacher an email and say that you’re finding it difficult to concentrate with the level of disruption, in my experience teachers are nice about this and might move you alway from noisy characters in the setting plan or take it as a reminder that they need to be directing some students to their work more often to stop them getting silly.
Hope this helps and best of luck with year 10, try not to stress about it :smile:

Reply 2

Mireya01

I agree... I remember there used to be a lot of really noisy people who didn't care and such however when we started GCSEs they calmed down. Your teachers also tend to get stricter on this kind of thing cause they also have to finish teaching you the course.
After the lesson, if you still don't understand something ask a friend or your teachers or your parents or go to drop in sessions if you have these but don't leave it. You can also try looking at YouTube videos if that helps you.