Parents of Gifted and Talented kids is there an organisation for such?

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My google search skills are abysmal and I have found no useful return for any UK association of gifted and talented children for parents (the classification is the primary and secondary schools' classifications not mine ... an overachieving wish for parent is always a danger1).

Their education is not going well and they are bored stiff, switching off, and refusing to go to school, at times, preferring to peruse my extensive library of fact books and the internet.

We need help.

Does anyone know how I can get hold of the location of an association for the parents of gifted and talented children? Any guidance from someone with google foo skills would be most gratefully received!!!

The schools are failing all disgracefully, something that happened to both mum and dad from lower class backgrounds but with "genius" level IQs (yes I know all the problems about classifications so spare me...) and we don't want to repeat the pattern for another generation (grandparents and greatparents were also highly self educated artisan class people also of probable genius IQ who never had a chance). Alas our career choices owed more to a social conscience than money making as youngsters and as parents of primary school kids in our mid 50s - yes we left it perilously late but fortunately my wife proved highly fertile - we are on a low income and I am disabled due to exposure to highly toxic industrial chemicals in the '70s that take 30 years to cause organ degeneration so surviving on one part time income.

Yes I'm not a "mum" but I have been housedad and very much main carer for 13 years and I mean main carer and house manager...

Otherwise the kids would be into private education and hang our green socialist/ social democratic convictions!!!

Is this what you want?
Do you realise that there is a G&T section on MN?

Do they not do a G&T programme at the school? My dd isnt G&T but my youngest sister is and they had some thing they did through the school? i cant be much help as i dont know much info about it but they did extra stuff outside of school and she went to G&T camp in summer hols.
i would try asking the school if there is any thing like thid in your area.

This is the National Assoc www.nagcbritain.org.uk/

Also if you haven't come across this lady you might like to take a look at her work
www.joanfreeman.com/

It is my understanding the national schools strategy had the plug pulled on it last year?

Hi Seuna

Just took up your advice that there is a G&T section on MN. Wow really useful. Thanks.

Thanks Senua I didn't realise there was a GT section on Mumsnet. Being one of those rare beasts, a Dad who has in middle age brought up all the children, I have found it often very isolating as one is "outside the loop" for so much information that goes around in what are often quite assertively female only groups! Not to mention that I am normally about 20-25 years older than the average mums as well seeing as we left having children until 20 years after meeting up so are very lucky to have them, given my wife's age when she went suddenly broody!

I have only recently heard of and discovered Mumsnet - literally yesterday via a mention on the radio - and it is a HUGE site with an immense range of activities so will take some time to forage amongst the vast range of topics, though we are now out of the little kids/baby terrain and into early and mid primary school and beginning of secondary school for our lot. Thanks squitchy12 for the heads up too. And I must be more interactive with the schools. The secondary school in particular is not being that communicative but it is my oldest daughter who is switching off most so I need to be more proactive. Mum just doesn't have time being in a hectic job (I was the part time academic and computer freelancer so there was no question about who was giving up work to look after kids, especially as we had the cushion of some rented houses I had bought and renovated when I was healthy in the 90s before the industrial chemical exposure began to take its effect upon my blood haemoglobin and liver function )-:

I also meant to thank munstermum for her provision of a link to the NACG!

Malcolm