The GCSE years.

Quite the experience, aren’t they?!

We’re creating something for girls going through their GCSE years, and we’d love a little help from parents who’ve been there, or are right in the middle of it!

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All those revision resources. But where do you start?

I’ve been going through the GCSE years with my own daughter, and I have to say, it’s been quite an experience!

She’s bright and capable, but getting her to actually sit down and revise has been another matter entirely.

There’s been the sheer volume of stuff she needs to learn, disappointing mock results, worrying about whether she’ll get the grades she needs, and then the biggest hurdle of all... just getting started.

And of course, being a teenager, suggestions from Mum weren’t always particularly welcome!

I’ve bought just about every revision aid going. Whiteboards, flashcards, revision cards, books, The Study Buddy... you name it, I’ve probably bought it.

But none of it really solved the problem of getting her started.

Meanwhile, here’s a girl who gets ridiculously excited whenever something arrives through the letterbox with her name on it.

Even when she knows perfectly well it’s just the jeans she ordered from Vinted!

And that got me thinking.

What if there was something arriving regularly that she actually looked forward to opening, but that also contained things to help her through her GCSEs?

And that’s where The GCSE Journey Box came from.

Not just revision materials, because goodness knows we’ve got enough of those, but useful study bits mixed in with encouragement, self-care treats and a few surprises.

Something that made the whole experience feel a little less like one enormous mountain of revision.

That’s the idea behind The GCSE Journey Box, a subscription box we’re developing at The Next Chapter Co. for girls navigating their GCSE years.

But we don’t want to just assume we know what everyone wants!

We’ve got plenty of ideas about what we’d like to include, but rather than just deciding what we think teenagers and their parents want, we’d much rather ask you.

We’ve put together a short, anonymous questionnaire about the challenges you’re seeing, the sorts of things your daughter might find useful, and whether a box like this is something you’d consider buying.

And please be honest! If you think it’s a terrible idea, or there’s something we’re completely overlooking, we’d genuinely like to know.