Gifted children - New group starting in Edinburgh.

[Flaxhigh]

Calling all 'gifted' kids in and around Edinburgh. A new social group is starting so kids can meet up (with their parents at first.) If you have a child who has been assessed by a child psychologist as 'gifted' with a high IQ I'd love to hear from you. Please contact me at [email protected].

Hello all, may I suggest something for you and your gifted children:

KINDERCONCERTS Edinburgh

Would you like a gentle introduction to classical music for your child in a private and friendly environment?
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Is your child coming to a stage where he/she would like to play an instrument?
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Do you feel you would like to take your child to a classical concert, but he/she would not yet sit through a formal concert?
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In this case, KinderConcerts might be exactly what you are looking for.

Set up by two Edinburgh Mums and music lovers, KinderConcerts is in its pilot year. Be part of this new venture, and enjoy this concert series/introduction to instruments aimed at children 3 and up!

Every last Sunday of the month a professional musician will introduce their instrument to our children and families, there will be opportunity to meet like-minded parents and families, Q&A with the musician, all in an informal environment of a private New Town front room.

Reservation is essential! If you would like to find out more, simply drop an email to [email protected]

Upcoming KinderConcerts:

Sunday, 29th April 2012, 3pm to 4pm. Meet Heather Kennedy and the Violin.

Sunday, 24th June 2012, 3pm to 4pm. Ciara Coleman will introduce the Vocals.

Looking forward to welcoming you to KinderConcerts!

Anna & Iris, The KinderConcerts Team.

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● The performance will last around 30 minutes, followed by a Q&A session with the musician, refreshments and snacks for the children, including coffee and tea for the parents.
● We would kindly ask for a donation of £5 per person to cover the artist cost and few of our expenses.
● Feel free to forward this email to friends that you think might be interested! If they cannot attend this concert, we will gladly put them on our Mailing/Invite list.
● KinderConcerts is a concert series designed for children aged 3 and above.

Hi, Im new to mumsnet and really happy to see this thread. I have two children, both wonderful. Our eldest,who is four and a half, seems very gifted to us, and most anyone else he gets into conversation with. He could speak in sentences by the time he was a year old, he would rather watch Wildlife on 1 that cartoons, at preschool they say he spends hours looking up reference books about the natural world etc. The problem we are having is that we dont know how to go about getting him tested, and sometimes we feel that people, eg the pre-school just think he's a little odd!! And maybe they are right? It's hard to say, I guess everyone thinks their child is gifted, but he really does seem so, the problem is he is quite shy and takes a long time to open up to people and tell them what he's doing/why he's doing it, so for example in pre-school I think they just think of him as the weirdo with his face in a book. Im wondering if there is any way for us to get him checked so we would know for sure and then see what we would do from there?

Dr Jack Boyle is an educational psychologist based in Glasgow and was very good at helping us to understand how to approach schools when our eldest was starting primary one. I will watch this thread so if you have any other questions I will try to help.

Does this group still get together? Our son is gifted and we would like to meet others of his age so he can make friends similar to himself.

I am also interested if anything came from this thread? And whether anything is more current? I have a 6 year old.

Just to update anyone with a gifted child who wanted to meet up. We did do a couple of meet ups but the kids weren't in my son's age group. If anyone has a gifted son aged 12 or 13 please do pm me. Thanks.

I don't know much about gifted children but I do know some independant schools in Edinburgh really support them. One being George Heriots who even have an educational psychologist on site.

Thank you for starting this thread, Flaxhigh.
My son is 7 so if any parents of similar age kids would like to meet up, please let me know.

Just to add to the thread that if you're looking for opportunities to engage and stretch your child, age 10-18, outside of school, I run educational workshops in Stockbridge and have several coming up in March and April. Lots of info here: www.WordPerfectWorkshops.com

And don't forget books. Let them read whatever they want; reading is THE most important thing, wherever their talents lie.

Hi my son has just been assessed by a educational psychologist as highly able, he's 4, is there any others on here with highly able children from Scotland. We live in Edinburgh. Would like to find some groups etc

Hi there my son will be 3 on Monday and we think he is gifted along with nursery staff dose anyone know what I can do to conform this and to get and IQ test in edinburgh

It sounds as though as well as being academically able some of the children described sound like they may well have ASD. Some parents don’t know what this may look like & only see some aspects of their child’s overall development. How nice to think your child is highly able but not see (or want to see) the rest.