Stressed Out! | A Level Results Day

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Hello everyone!

Today's blog post is about stress. Along with myself, I can imagine the vast majority of 17 and 18 years olds are somewhat stressed. Doomsday is upon us. Yes, it is A level results day tomorrow, and boy do we know it.

Thankfully I have another year left of school, so I don't have to stress out about final grades, university clearings and the UCAS website going down, but I'm still bloody nervous.

Ever since my last exam in May, whenever someones mentioned the tabooed words 'results day', my stomach churned. Especially during this past week. When people have mentioned it on twitter, or the news has said something about grades, I've wanted to curl up and miss tomorrow entirely.

However, there are thousands of people in the same boat as me. And even more next Thursday when the GCSE results are out.

It's the same every year. I'll come out of every exam thinking 'I tried my best, I couldn't have done anything else', but as the countdown to results day ticks away, I find myself thinking 'but I could have done more. I could have done some more revision instead of watching an episode of that TV show.' A lot of you are probably on the same wavelength as me. But we have to remember that we couldn't revise 24/7, that we deserve time do to whatever we want. It's school, not a prison sentence (although it often feels that way!)

I'm not here to say 'everything will be okay'. Coming from a person with anxiety, its exactly what you don't want to hear, because it doesn't help. All I'm going to say is, no matter what the outcome, good or bad, you'll figure something out eventually, even if it isn't what you initially anticipated. Don't throw away any of your ambitions based on bad grades. That's the worst thing you could do.

I'm also not here to tell you how to deal with stress, because everyone has their own way. Me? I watch a movie or read a book to escape reality for a little while. Just don't let it get on top of you like it did with me a few months ago.

Before I go back to rocking back and forth on my bed, I want to wish everyone receiving results tomorrow the best of luck. As the wild cats would say 'we're all in this together'!

Cheerio x

A field trip to Northumberland National Park

Hello Everyone!

We've had a beautiful couple of weeks weather wise haven't we? I've really been enjoying the sun, although 30 degrees is a little too hot when you're stuck inside a stuffy classroom!

Thankfully the stuffy classroom days have been short-lived this week as I was able to visit the Hadrian's Wall area of Northumberland National Park as part of a Media 'field trip'.

Along with a few other schools from the north east, we have been given the opportunity to help publicise and produce content for the national park's new project.

The new project, which is taking place at the Once Brewed visitor centre has the working title The Sill- an initiative to redevelop the small visitor centre and create a Landscape Discovery Centre and a new youth hostel to host a range of activities such as learning and participating, as well as allowing people of all ages to admire the beautiful surrounding scenery.

We have been asked to help with the publicity of the plans they have to redevelop the site, which should hopefully start in 2014 and be finished by 2016. We have been asked to create short films, conduct interviews and take photographs of the area to show what Northumberland National Park has to offer, as well as showing what there is to come. This will be happening over a few months with plenty of visits to the centre.

Whilst at Once Brewed we were allowed to part of the Hadrian's Wall site to take some test shots to get an idea of what we will be doing in the up and coming future. It was a beautiful day for it, and although the sun was not in the right position, I think I managed to get quite a few good shots- and I'm no photographer. Since I was only using a Nikon Coolpix digital camera, I was very pleased with the outcomes.

I'm looking forward to the next few trips and have quite a few ideas up my sleeve. Expect to see more blog posts about The Sill in the near future, so stay tuned!

If you want any more information about The Sill then check out their website here.

Cheerio x