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Gifted and talented

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Thank you MN Towers for this topic

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RTKangaMummy · 15/05/2006 13:57

Thank you MN towers

I know certain other posters are being really immature and silly about this topic

We will get picked on for posting on here

And certain other posters will be not be able to cope with a new topic

Why should it harm them to have this topic???

We are told off if we post in Education

My DS is SEN and GT so has different needs in both camps

For example, he is in top 2% for English in the country with a very high IQ but has dyspraxia and hypermobilty in his joints which means this week his classmates are doing cycling proficiency at school but he is unable to ride a bike well enough to be able to join in. SO he is the only one in his class not able to join in.

SO you guys can PARP and tease me all you like but I don't care.

You can just go and post somewhere else and link to newspaper articles about pushy parents all you like I don't care

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figroll · 15/05/2006 21:26

Notanotter, know the feeling well - we can celebrate all sorts of success, except academic

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RTKangaMummy · 15/05/2006 21:27

notanotter I agree completely

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Blandmum · 15/05/2006 21:28

scottish system is better for any number of reasons.

zippitippitoes · 15/05/2006 21:28

I'm surprised this topic is seen in such a bad light tbh..children do deserve the best and if it helps parents find it then it's a good thing..heaven knows there is enough wringing of hands about education in all respects

Celia2 · 15/05/2006 21:29

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figroll · 15/05/2006 21:29

Oh well, got to go and have my nightly g and t my other g and t is tucked up in bed.

LittleSarah · 15/05/2006 21:30

I don't think I have ever met an offical 'gifted and talented' person... is that because I am in Scotland?? Smile

Still, I don't think cleverness has to be hushed up, I am only brightish and my mum always (in fact probably still) boasts about it...

But then she used to introduce my dad as, "my boyfriend John, he got a first from Glasgow you know... Wink"

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RTKangaMummy · 15/05/2006 21:30
Grin
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tamum · 15/05/2006 21:31

Blimey, I never thought of that LittleSarah, perhaps the scheme exists but there just isn't anybody on it? :o

LittleSarah · 15/05/2006 21:33

Well, I didn't say it... Wink... but Grin

zippitippitoes · 15/05/2006 21:34

everybody would wish their children would achieve their full potential..I don't see that as competing for attention or resources..I think the political angle on it is that the Government is afraid that kids will slip through the net and we will miss out to Turkey or whatever in the next big push to be the country with the greatest economic growth..we are likely to slip way behind by the way

Blandmum · 15/05/2006 21:35

You have legal minimums on the size of science classes , for example, we don't have that [sigh]

Whatever the ins and outs of it, I wish people wouldn't be so bloody rude though. Whatever else, we are talking about people's kids here. It might not be the end of the world stuff, but if people want to discuss it, let them.

There are any number of thinsg that I feel are a bit of a bore on MN, but that is just part of like. None of us are interesetd in everything. If your not interested, ignore it.

Don't to the playgroung teasing thing, it is just so unnecesary. And for people who's kids have been teased in this way, more of the same from adults is tha last thing their parents need.

noddyholder · 15/05/2006 21:37

I don't know why people get so hot under the collar about this although a certain someone rallies her troops and away they goGrinThis is a website for support I have a close friend whose ds is g and t and is my ds's best friend who isn't(but is the best looking boy in a 50 mile radius maybe I should start a thread)My friend has needed support at times esp when her son started secondary school and realised there were other geniuses and he felt quite threatened and unsure of his status and would prob find this really helpful.Is it really any different than the other end of the spectrum I hope you all get a lot from this thread and ignore the stirrers xx

blueshoes · 15/05/2006 22:10

Agree with Gillian76. Does labelling a child G&T prevent or mitigate bullying? Still reeling from the description "middle of the road plodders" from a post a while ago.

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RTKangaMummy · 15/05/2006 22:17

None of the children are told who are on GT

Or any of the parents either

Children just know who are the top of the class

Well in DS class 6 they do anyway

I certainly don't say anything to the other parents about DS

What would be the point cos they would think I was boasting etc.?

So IMHO whether a child is listed as GT in the school at primary level wouldn't make any difference to the other children

They just know which are the top and which are the bottom

At DS school some of class 5 come in to class 6 for maths and some of class 6 go down to class 5 for maths

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Celia2 · 15/05/2006 22:19

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hulababy · 15/05/2006 22:22

At secondary school the children know if they are classed as G&T, IME anyway. They are sometimes taken out of class to do additional work/activities linked to the area(s) they are G and/or T in.

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RTKangaMummy · 15/05/2006 22:31

That is interesting hula

IMHO DS school is pretty hopeless at picking up either end of the spectrum

One of DS classmates has Dyscalcula quite severly and it wasn't picked up until class 5 AngrySad

SENCO co-ord has been passed around so much and no one really has had any interest in it that it has failed the children IMHO

When DS goes to senior school in sept the gap between him and the other boys will be less as it has already selected them off with entrance exams etc.

He will have a problem with his slow processing esp in Maths compared to some of them but he will be ok.

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PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2006 22:37

Well in the private sector clever children are called "clever" and put in the scholarship class and get a scholarship or two and an extra A level in the end.
And then go to Oxbridge.

Seems a much more sensible way of dealing with it.

Don't need a whole topic for that, really

Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 15/05/2006 22:42

PMSL PPH

I do think the g and t sector thingy works well locally. I live in q onf the top 10 poorest cities in Europe- apparently, Here the G and T kids identified in the ropiest areas are identified and given extra activities at weekends. So they get toger the cleverest vulnerable kids from the most vunerable backgrounds- and show them - by getting them together from differnt hard schools, that's it's OK to do A levels and even go to college. It all sounds terribly patronising written like that, but I do think its a good use of resources. I'm not sure that many of the parents will be on these threads stressing about Tarquin though.

Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 15/05/2006 22:43

And someone needs to teach me to type, or maybe I need a new keyboard.....

edam · 15/05/2006 22:44

Kanga, a friend of mine has a daughter with dyscalcula. School have told her she doesn't qualify for any extra help because it's not a 'real' problem. WTF?

SparklyGothKat · 15/05/2006 22:46

FWIW I have one child on the G&T register, and one child who is struggling even to say her ABC's at aged 6, she is on the lowest band books, she can't count past 20, she can't even write her full name yet. Its hard having two child at such difference ends of the SENs, DS reads books from yr 5-6 (he is in yr3) so have to monitor the contents and am always 'feeding' his need for information. DD1, I find it so hard because I 'know' she should be able to do, but she can't, its continually going over the same words, going over the same book for 2-3 weeks.

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Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 15/05/2006 23:02

Shouldn't they get the SN bit working first them (because it isn't at the moment),