G&T class

Abigail has been going to the gifted and talented group run by a teacher at FJT for a few weeks at the end of term 1. She was placed with a mixed aged group containing up to year 6 children, learning about the 6 thinking hats of de Bono (playing with the coloured hats). The teacher reported that everytime she appeared at the classroom door Abigail would start to cry. Abigail later told her parents that she didn't want to miss out on the crafts/play that her fellow kinder friends were doing each time Miss J approached. Also she thought the class with Miss J was hard and she wished another child would be chosen to play with Miss J instead of herself.

Miss Johnson revised her approach to Abigail in Term 2 and instead put her with a group containing only K-2 children. After the first lesson of term 2 Abigail appeared much happier, reporting that she had played a nice game with Miss J involving animals and moving fences around for the farmer. Later when Chris spoke with Miss J she admitted that she had put Abigail in at the deep end at first, but had reassessed her given her observations from Term 1.

Today as Abigail was being picked up late from the school playground, another late child remarked to his mother that "That girl is the only one from kindergarten in the Creative Thinkers' Club" (Miss Johnson's classes). Priscilla was surprised that no others have been marked yet, but the teachers did say that it would happen towards the end of the year. Glad that we had Abigail tested early on.

Re: fences game, Abigail reported that she was working with another girl and they didn't solve the problem at first. After Miss J told them the answer, they re-did the exercise (probably to prove that it worked).