My son is very gifted but not in the G&T group. What shall I do?

[ChristineFrog]

My son is 7 and is very gifted in all areas. He can read fluently and often reads long, complicated works to himself (Enid Blyton, etc), can do addition and subtraction to 100 and understands complex scientific principles such as how the earth rotates around the Sun and how a food chain works.

However, I have recently discovered that there is a Gifted and Talented 'club' at his school who meet on Wednesday. He is not part of it and I am angry that his talents have been overlooked and that he is not having the fulfilled and rich education which his gifts demand.

I am going to make an appointment to see the headteacher on Monday morning to ask why he is not included and ask that they re-assess his obviously above average needs.

What else can I do to make sure that the school starts providing for him and his complex needs?

I am indeed 'anyfucker'

surely a big clue in that sentence?

Thank you for wrapping that up for me MOC

" it is clear he needs to expand outwards."

Unless he is very thin, I do not think it is wise to purposely make children fatter. Have you not read any healthy eating guidelines?

Q What do arseholes and Captain Kirk have in common?

A They both hate Klingons!!

I AM NOT DOING MANDARIN

You never listen to me do you?

Thats it i'm packing my bags

Oh for goodness sake. Please, go and start your own thread if you wish to tell jokes. I just want help with my exceptional son.

Erm, GiftedAndTalentedAged7, I am not your Mummy, sweetheart. My own son is very special and needs this attention, but I can see why you would feel the pressure was mounting up otherwise. Go and talk to your own parents and discuss ways of them putting less pressure on you.

I didn't realise children were allowed on this site? Especially with all the swearing?

You could enter him into the NASA space program.

He could boldly go where no 7year old has been before...

He is very interested in space, AmazingBouncingFerret. Do they have a junior program because he would be perfectly suited to it.

No, I think I've made my mind up - I'm going to go into the school tomorrow morning and speak to the head about my son's abilities. I'll discuss provision for him and say that it has been recommended he begins learning a language, perhaps Mandarin, as soon as possible. I will also perhaps give him a copy of DS's CD so that the head knows about his other abilities. This seems the sensible way forward.

Blimey (no swearing due to high IQ and 7 yr old children around) is this thread still going?! lol. I have hoovered round, done the ironing and fed the cats whilst my 6 month old assessed the house hext door for damp proofing, pointing and full rewiring.
Goodness knows what they will do with him and playgroup/nursery when he gets there...I will be in a similar predicament to the OP. Quite worrying really.

Re the CD, don't forget my 10 % cut.

Good idea Christine, just hope you can't hear the howls of laughter when you leave the heads office

TROLL!

You paint such a lovely picture of you son, I can identify with the 'Ghandi-like in his demeanour'. I assume he is in a private school, if not he will easily get a scholarship. Contact the top three schools in the country - they'll fight to have him.

Children are getting too smart nowadays.
We should send em back down the mines and up teh chimneys.
Then we wont have to worry about it.

Its true, Amazing,I think the MNers on the Broken Britain thread should cheer themselves up and read about the intelligent youth on this thread. They will then realise that Britain certainly is going to be in good hands in the future.
All is well.

I've been so interested to read this thread, can you please let us know how it goes tomorrow?

Ahhh.... what a refreshing thread. Well done Christine for being such a conscientious parent concerned with the educational well-being of her child.

Go you!

Damn slow fingers. x post with Pixie!

Pixie- really?

Pixie -