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What has happened then?

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Mothering.com has an unabashed monthly bragging thread for G&T kids "What are they doing now" thing. Is that what you mean?

Actually, I don't mind -- people who don't like it can hide it. Not that I ever have much to boast! I wish that my bright DS would not waste his native talents.

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Can we join even if our DC's are just a little bit clever rather than full blown gifted?

It's just that I am still positively bouncing from foot to foot with joy after the DC's parents evening, and a whole week has passed... I can't tell people in RL as that would just be showing off!

Anyway, DS1 (who is in Year 2) is two reading bands above anyone else in his class, and has had to go into the Year 3-4 class to get them since Christmas. His teacher says that his creative writing is the best that she has seen in a child of his age in a long time. He is also one of the best in his class at Maths, is the youngest member of the school choir and the second youngest in the football team. He is the only child in his class to be learning a musical instrument. His teacher described him as a "team player" and "a credit to the school".

DD has been in Reception since Easter, and since then has won the singing competition for her age group in the local Eisteddfod, and has had a Highly Commended for a piece of artwork in the county agricultural show. Her teacher showed me a 4 page tick sheet of things that they were supposed to be able to do by the time they leave Reception (this time next year), and there was only one thing on the whole sheet that she couldn't already do.

As for DS2 (year 1), well I haven't been called in to discuss his bad behaviour in school for at least a fortnight, which is good going. Not everyone can be academic...

Thank you for indulging me in my little boast

BTW, that is great news about your DS Pixie. I have experience of IEPs from working with children with SEN, and it can be hard to pitch it at exactly the right level. But it is great that it is working. It must be scary and very worrying at times to have a child that gifted.

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Do you enjoy HEing, Pixie? Why would you want to if he's happy & doing well at school?

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Good .

ooo, pixie, i've been stalking you for a week, wondering what you had decided . and now i know!
fab news about the olympiad, too.

went to year group transition meeting for dd2 yesterday (they were initially going to skip a grade, but have decided not to). next year's teacher basically gave me the 'children who teach themselves to read early get caught up with their peers at about this point' etc etc and 'yes, yes, but is she understanding the reading' etc etc. her current teacher was doing a valiant job of attempting to convince the new one of dd2's academic levels etc, it was quite uncomfortable. anyway, she has cp as well, so i asked a few questions about support, and the new teacher basically said dd2 was fine, didn't need any support, and seemed to be suggesting that we were all mollycoddling her, and she was nothing to write home about. i feel a bit munschausen's by proxy tbh.

i copied the ep report again and dropped it off this morning...

sooo, back to that home-edding option? <sigh>

oooh, and helyg, ds1 attempts to be a criminal mastermind, but today he was caught with a chocolate bar and a packet of m&m s in his shoes after lifting them from the sweetie jar (this is kept on top of our very karge fridge behind the cook-books, and even i need to stand on a chair to access it.... he is 8)

but he is quite clever - he's just sat his provincial assessment tests and come top of the class ... just not clever enough apparently! <wonders where to hide sweets next>

and this week they have said they are definitely assessing dd1 for the provincial gifted program, and i've had a phone call asking if we can attend the awards ceremnony next week as she won lots <shameless proud mother emoticon>. she works so hard. far harder than the other two, so it's nice that her hard work is being recognised!

she has won lots.... clearly they get their genius from their father

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Can I join in too please????
I am just sooooo proud of my children. Want to shout all about them from the roof tops, but of course you can't do that.
DS1, GandT at school, piano, horn, football, cricket, and now this evening swam 1 mile!!!!! 64 lenghts - 1 hr 10 mins without stopping! How proud am I???!!!
Sorry, will shut up now.

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Might I join you and have a little proud mum moment as I can't tell anyone this in RL??

DD is in reception and has gone through 7 National Curriculum book bands so far this year (I think the norm is 3). I am quite proud of her!

She STILL can't ride a bike though lol!

Can I ask you, do any of you have problems in class where your dc is working at a considerably higher level than the top table and if so what happens?

(My DD is shit-hot at reading; pushing a level 3 at the end of yr1)

That's a constant problem erm. The school should be diffenciating the work for her further.

Ds had his parents evening yesterday, the teacher said he would probably have achieved a level 6 on his sats (key stage 2), is this possible? When he did the key stage 1 tests he was only able to go up to top level 3

Hope you are all well

Erm: my DS2 is quite far ahead of the rest of his year in terms of reading (he is on Level 10 ORT whereas the others are on levels 2-3, I know that ORT is far from the be all and end all but he reads novels well at home too, and in two languages).

His teacher is apparently differentiating his work with regard to reading (his maths etc are not as strong as his language so not a problem), but I am keeping a close eye on it as she herself admitted in parents evening that DS1 has "coasted" through most of Year 2 as the work wasn't challenging enough for him! So she clearly wasn't differentiating there...