Well worth reading - seems quite a few things in common with High Needs descriptions to me!

Yes, ALWAYS learning, us mums - couldnt agree more!

Thanks Emz! You're right - each child is an individual! Pity the poor teachers trying to set work for 30 kids all going at different rates - rather them than me! I think with Em, sometimes the work is too easy but also (she has said) that repeating it is boring. Which is something I later read on the Gifted website. SO different to me - I did ok at school but repetition is the way I learn. Em by contrast seems to grasp ideas quickly and so doesnt need or want all this repetition. She said yesterday that the teacher had seen that she had finished a numeracy question and so gave her something more difficult while the class continued with the question, and she finished that and the teacher gave her something "even more difficult". "Did you enjoy that?" I asked "YES!!!!" she replied. So maybe the teacher is getting the idea at last. Hope so!

Thanks Winnie! Hohum, time to learn a new skill, I'm not really into being push in person! By letter; now that's more me LOL!

The Gifted website did mention that plenty of Gifted kids have Dyslexia or similar so if those parents HAD been better informed they would have known that. Well done for getting R the encouragment and help she needed!

Kathryn I never filled in the form,LOL It was solely a teachers decision ! I did however push for R's SEN aid and my front was strong, because I researched till I was blue in the face,LOL

I then talked to the teachers and head and senco and annoyed the life out of them for months, then years, then would go home and burst into tears, but hanged if I would let them see that,LOL.

You say whatever you have to in front of them and then you go home and brew hot sweet tea to help you over the shock of finding out what you are truely capable of,hehehehe.

Hugs.xx

Thanks Winnie - or should I call you Supermum?

I can see I'm going to have to be very annoying, but then as I used to work in local government, I do know that the pushy are the ones that get things, rarely the deserving and the quiet. But the hot sweet tea would not be a help - can't stand it sweet, and tend to drink it tepid! Nice strong coffee for me, I think!

Thanks Janice! I vaguely remember at college that thing about selling the benefits in Marketing lessons. Wish I hd more working brain cells to dream up good sales pitches for my DDs!

Emma's teacher for the first half of this year is a lovely YOUNG teacher. She is the maternity cover and I suspect she probably qualified a year or two ago. Then we get the new mummy back. I dont know much about her. I only know that most of the teachers are youngish, having joined the school in the last 5 years as many of the old guard retired when the new head stepped on their toes. SHE is very good but even the parents are scared of HER! Anyway, I dont know how skillful either of these teachers are - they probably have their recent time at college in their favour but relative lack of experience against. We will see!