Teaching a gifted child

[vcfromhk]

Hi my daughter is turning 7. We moved from HK where she was in year 2. Unfortunately the state school here admitted her in year 1 as she is Sep born and beyond the cut off age.

Further, she is exceptionally smart and disciplined. She is very focussed and reads physics books suitable for a 11 year old and talks about physics concepts all day. She has an excellent memory too and can reproduce anything read once easily.

We don't know what we can do to challenge her and over and above that the school has put her 1 year behind instead of moving her up by 2 grades :( . Any suggestions?

Thanks for all the wonderful comments and suggestions.

Private school is not an option as it's expensive. I wouldn't want to just send her to private and elder to state and hence expensive.

We just got home a piano so she can learn something new.

She is also an amazing singer and actor. She was the lead in the school play recently and on stage improvised and made all the parents laugh.

She wants to get a noble prize in physics. She already dresses like a professor, always wears a tie and has asked santa to gift her a electron microscope and a briefcase

How is she getting on? I have a son similar to yours who is gifted in maths and science. He was probably reading books for an 11 year old in those subjects when he was your daughter's age but the problem was the gap became wider and wider. He is 10 now and there is really nothing the school can do to stretch him as he's reading university books.

We didn't attempt to move him up a year - it really wouldn't have made any difference for him. It was better for him to connect with his age group and form bonds than worrying about his academics.

Hope your daughter is happy. You get years is tough as children at that age are still immature. Things should get better in upper years. 🤞

Thanks for your message. It’s getting better as she has cranked down her geekiness. She has phases in her life where she gets passionate about something and moves on. She learned the periodic table, wrote a book on it and now her passion is fiction and also writing her own original stories. She writes a new one every single day. We have also learned to not worry much and just let it be. Best of luck for your bright son.