My y4 ds has been awarded a first from Oxford - is this good?

[PollyParanoia]

My ds's teacher says his end of term homework is probably doctoral thesis level and that we should possibly be thinking about submitting for the Nobel prize. Does anyone know if this is unusual? Is he doing well? He seems a bright little thing, but I'm not sure what these levels know.

Ah, but no employer will be interested in his Nobel prize. Wait until he has a 'real' qualification before stealth boasting.

Glad for you that your ds has a teacher who can recognise his ability. My ds' teacher just didn't 'get' ds and suggested that his brilliant dissecting skills weren't anything to do with a latent brain surgery ability. Cheek.

Thanking you all for the fat tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks.

I have been waiting on Mumsnet for years for someone to post "my dc only got 1s or 2s at ks1 sats, what does this mean?" It never happens....

love this thread......might print it off...

Yes, but how big is his dung-dah?

V childish op from me I know, but jeesh mumsnet education board can mess with your perceptions. I was feeling chuffed about ds' sats results and then read that he was being outdone by a just turned 6-year-old ('is she doing well?'). You might be forgiven for thinking it's unusual to enter reception unable to read harry potter and to be anything less than gifted.
Stealth boasting is the worst. If your kid is such a genius, how come his/her parent is incapable of googling basic information about national standards?

I haven't yet got the sats reults for my yr 6 and yr 2, but I'm fairly sure that most mumsnetter's yr 1s have surpassed them both. grr.

But they can ride bikes nicely, and hold pencils well.

PollyParanoia - surely the answer is obvious? The parents don't share their child's abilities. Sometimes, it doesn't take one to know one.

Well, my DDs have just built a miniature working cold fusion reactor out of Lego, which is powering our home very nicely and incidentally has earned us £166 million selling electricity back to the National Grid since last week.

Of course it does help that they both have PhDs in Prenatal Nuclear Physics though at the time it was a complete pain getting them to tap out the answers to the exam questions in Morse code - sonographers very sloppy about recording the answers and got shirty when writing the thesis took more than the 10 minute hospital slot we had booked.

Fab thread.

Well i'll have you all know that one of my eggs, which will one day become fertilised, has been offered a place at Oxford and already has a funder in place for their PHD

michglas - wow, having an egg so superior that no sperm could dent its potential. That's something special.

The twinkle in my milkman's eye has just been elevated to the level of deity.

"michglas - wow, having an egg so superior that no sperm could dent its potential. That's something special."

Yes, it has been determined that male DNA will not make a blind bit of difference to its intellectual superiority.

Are you sure it hasn't been offered a place in a test tube, for experimentation to further someone else's PhD?

Great thread, made me laugh a lot

In fact, I might have to show ds tomorrow

Disingenuous - that's the word. All that "Is a Level 5a good in Yr 1?" bollocks - thank you for this thread.

And anyway - my DS2 had full control of a whole country when he was 4. A sort of benign dictatorship. Ran like clockwork. Imaginary, but still - impressive. Did the UN recognise him? Did they hell.

Ah, but was it a congratulatory first? That's really what you should be aiming for at this stage i think.

Hassled - tell him not to go in fancy dress next time. The UN is not a good place for trick or treating.

Brilliant thread - I would show it to 10 yo DD but she's in bed - early breakfast meeting with her publisher tomorrow

(I do hope someone got my reference to sellotape in connection to Nobel Prizes)