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Archive | Gifted Children
School starting age ‘should be raised to six to prevent long-term damage to brighter children’ | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
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Just what is gifted and talented? | Guardian
Posted on 09 May 2012.
My daughters are both exceptional at art; my son has always been a mathematical genius. My girls have won prizes for art; my boy has won an academic prize every year of his life, including university scholarships. Are my kids gifted and talented? What do we mean when by “gifted”? Françoys Gagné (2003) says: “Gifted [...]
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Teenager from Barnsley to dance with Bolshoi ballet – Telegraph
Posted on 04 May 2012.
Tala,16, will make history in Sepember when she embarks on a four year training programme in Moscow, one of only a handful of British dancers to make the journey in the Bolshoi’s 236 year history. While she is there Tala, who started dancing when she was four, will have to learn Russian to help her settle [...]
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Four-year-old piano prodigy to play Royal Albert Hall – Evening Standard
Posted on 30 April 2012.
Most four year olds are content with banging on a drum and would struggle to get a note out of a recorder. But child prodigy Mimi Zou has astounded her piano teacher with her progress and will tonight give her first solo performance at the Royal Albert Hall. Mimi, who has only been learning the [...]
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Girl, 14, who had just won place at dance school, died after being mowed down by hit-and-run learner driver
Posted on 27 April 2012.
A learner driver who mowed down an aspiring teenage dancer before setting fire to his car has been jailed for six-and-a-half years. Talented Alessia Boschiazzo,14, from Carshalton, Surrey, had passed her audition to the Brit school in south London the day before she was run over by hit-and-run scaffolder Steven Saunders. Some of the biggest names [...]
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State pupils ‘not being pushed for Oxbridge’ prompting fears hundreds of youngsters are being held back
Posted on 27 April 2012.
More than half of state school teachers are failing to encourage their brightest pupils to apply to Oxford and Cambridge, according to a survey out today. They ‘rarely’ or ‘never’ advise their most gifted pupils to apply to the elite institutions, prompting fears that hundreds of youngsters are being held back. The survey results suggest [...]
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Charlie, 9, beats bullies to dance at the Coliseum – Evening Standard
Posted on 21 April 2012.
A nine-year-old prodigy who lives in a council house is set to perform in front of thousands of ballet fans at the London Coliseum. Charlie Salsen, from Ilford, has overcome shyness and bullying at school to land a starring role in an adaptation of Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina by acclaimed Russian choreographer Boris Eifman. [...]
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Girl mechanic re-built a Fiero sports car from scrap | Mail Online
Posted on 20 April 2012.
While most girls her age obsess over Justin Bieber, teenager Kathryn Dimara is more riveted with cars. The 14-year-old from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, has spent the last two years rebuilding a Pontiac Fiero from scrap. Kathryn used her her pocket money from babysitting to buy the vehicle, which she hopes to complete in time for her 16th [...]
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BBC News – Coming soon? The 14-year-old ‘voiceover sensation’
Posted on 19 April 2012.
Jake Foushee started voicing film trailers when his voice dropped at the age of 13. A year later, the teenager from North Carolina has become a sensation on YouTube. BBC Radio 5 live’s Tony Livesey spoke to him and his father Chip about his “cool” voice via BBC News – Coming soon? The 14-year-old ‘voiceover [...]
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Grammar school entry threshold ‘inflated by coaching’ – Telegraph
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Figures show pupils are required to score as much as 99.5 per cent in exams to get into England’s most highly selective grammars. In the most extreme case, children who dropped just three marks out of a possible 420 this year faced being automatically rejected. Nationally, figures suggest almost half of pupils who attain the [...]
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Is this the cleverest baby in Britain? She’s six months old, she’s toilet-trained, can talk and even conduct an orchestra… | Mail Online
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Is this the cleverest baby in Britain? She’s six months old, she’s toilet-trained, can talk and even conduct an orchestra… By JILL FOSTER PUBLISHED: 22:05, 13 April 2012 | UPDATED: 22:05, 13 April 2012 Comments (174) Share Mozart was just three when he mastered the harpsichord, Steffi Graf returned volleys with a powerful backhand when [...]
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The next ‘movie trailer guy’: 14-year-old boy’s amazing voice sweeps the web | Mail Online
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Coming soon? The 14-year-old boy with the amazing voice bidding to be the next ‘movie trailer guy’ Scroll down to see Jake Foushee’s voiceover video Scroll down further to see how it compares to ‘Voiceover King’ Don LaFontaine By MATT BLAKE Schoolboy Jake Foushee has taken his bid to become a voice actor by the [...]
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A day in the life of four girls called Matilda | The Guardian
Posted on 17 April 2012.
A day in the life of four girls called Matilda What is it like being the 10-year-old star of a hit West End musical? We ask the four young joint winners of the Olivier award for best actress The musical Matilda has four child stars sharing the title role and eight performances a week: a [...]
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School music under threat | The Guardian
Posted on 17 April 2012.
School music under threat Cutbacks and the back-door privatisation of services are putting children’s musical education at risk Primary school children making music in Tower Hamlets where the music service aims to give all children, regardless of their family income, the opportunity to learn an instrument. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian It’s a weekday [...]
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What ever happened to the original Matilda?As musical dominates Olivier awards, we look at cute child movie star Mara Wilson, 24, as she abandons acting | Mail Online
Posted on 17 April 2012.
What happened to the original Matilda?As musical dominates Olivier awards, former child star Mara Wilson, 24, rants about how film acting ‘is tedious’ She will always be remembered as the adorable seven-year-old with a magic finger able to move items around the house. But like several child stars before her, Mara Wilson has shunned an [...]
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Olivier Awards 2012: Matilda wins SEVEN awards making history | Mail Online
Posted on 16 April 2012.
Aged just 10 and 12 they are young enough to be the daughters of their acting rivals. But four schoolgirls have triumphed at the prestigious Olivier Awards beating veteran actresses such as Sarah Lancashire, 47, Kat Fleetwood, 39, and 29-year-old Scarlet Strallen. Eleanor Worthington Cox, ten, Cleo Demetriou, ten, Kerry Ingram, 12, and Sophia Kiely, [...]
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Young stars steal the show as Matilda sets Olivier records – Telegraph
Posted on 16 April 2012.
They have Pop-Tarts in their dressing room instead of champagne and never attend celebrity parties because they are past their bedtime. But the four young stars who share the title role in Matilda the Musical were the toast of the West End last night, after being named joint best actresses at the Olivier Awards. Their most [...]
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Matilda the Musical wins record haul at Olivier awards – Telegraph
Posted on 16 April 2012.
The four young stars who share the title role in Matilda the Musical were the toast of the West End on Sunday night after being named joint best actresses at the Olivier Awards. Their most junior member, 10-year-old Eleanor Worthington Cox from Merseyside, is the youngest Olivier winner in history – and now has a [...]
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BBC News – Four-year-old Heidi Hankins joins Mensa with 159 IQ
Posted on 16 April 2012.
A four-year-old girl from Hampshire has been accepted into Mensa with an IQ just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Heidi Hankins from Winchester has a 159 IQ. She taught herself to read and was able to count to 40 at two years old. British Mensa chief executive John Stevenage said Heidi’s parents [...]
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Father of Chinese boy He Tide pictured running nearly naked in New York gives extraordinary interview | Mail Online
Posted on 13 February 2012.
It showed a crying three-year-old Chinese boy forced to exercise in the snow in just his underpants. Posted on the internet by his father, the video of little He Tide shivering in -13C (9F) conditions while pleading for a hug has now been seen by millions and has sparked a worldwide debate about parenting. For [...]
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Sets fail pupils, study finds – The Independent
Posted on 10 February 2012.
Moves to reintroduce more setting and streaming in UK state schools are fuelling a “vicious cycle” of underperformance, particularly amongst disadvantaged youngsters, a top-level international study warned yesterday. Successive governments – starting with Tony Blair’s first term in 1997 – have encouraged schools to go back to teaching pupils in different ability groups. They have [...]
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Jonny Mizzone, 9, of the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, plays banjo | Mail Online
Posted on 10 February 2012.
Little Jonny Mizzone, 9, cradles the banjo in his arms and it looks nearly bigger than he is. He smiles slyly then, suddenly, starts to pick the strings at almost unbelievably speed. The dulcet tones of his fast finger picking begin to fill the simple wood-paneled bedroom. One beat Jonny’s older brothers Robbie, 12, and [...]
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Ten-year-old discovers ‘new molecule’ while tinkering with educational model | Mail Online
Posted on 04 February 2012.
A 10-year-old Missouri girl may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule after a brief introduction on molecular formation by her middle school science teacher. Clara Lazen of Kansas City was piecing together over-sized atoms from an educational model in her Border Star Montessori School classroom when she composed something her teacher [...]
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British schoolgirl, 8, wows guitarists with Stratovarius YouTube video – Telegraph
Posted on 29 January 2012.
Zoe, from Thatcham, Berks, plays in a child group called Mini Band which was catapulted to fame last year with a cover of Metallica’s Enter Sandman. But the youngster’s latest offering has won her hundreds of thousands more fans, showing her shredding her way through the solo of the Stratovarius’s Stratosphere. The track by the [...]
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Competitive parents ‘taking joy out of childhood’ – Telegraph
Posted on 29 January 2012.
Mothers and fathers risk undermining their children’s natural development with evening and weekend lessons in the three-Rs – in addition to more than 40 hours of school work and extra curricular activities, it is claimed. Alexia Bracewell, the head of fee-paying Longacre School in Guildford, Surrey, told how parents of three-year-olds regularly approached teachers to [...]
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Stephen Lawrence charity: Daily Mail sponsor’s drive to help disadvantaged youngsters | Mail Online
Posted on 09 January 2012.
From the appalling murder of Stephen Lawrence, a remarkable legacy of hope has been created in his name. The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust already helps disadvantaged students into careers in architecture, the profession he dreamed of entering. Now the Daily Mail is to sponsor two bursaries to give youngsters from deprived backgrounds the chance to [...]
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The real life Willy Wonka
Posted on 28 December 2011.
Chocolate bar created by boy, 8, for Jim’ll Fix It special to be rolled out nationwide
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Alexa Fisher: 8-year-old poker prodigy who prefers Las Vegas to Disneyland | Mail Online
Posted on 25 November 2011.
She can deal, she can shuffle, she even knows how to bluff, but what makes Alexa Fisher’s talent unique is that she is only eight-years-old. Having learnt to play poker at the age of just three, she is now taking on experienced card sharks more than seven times her age and is thought to be [...]
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Angela Merkel: The little communist who grew up to be the world’s most powerful woman | Mail Online
Posted on 25 November 2011.
Unlike so many modern politicians, Angela Merkel does not believe in placing her private life on public display. We know she likes to bake plum cakes, does her own shopping, enjoys the odd Wagner concert and sometimes goes hiking with her second husband. But beyond this, she gives little away in interviews. Perhaps she declines [...]
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Eight reasons why August birthdays are good
Posted on 02 November 2011.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that children born in August are 20% less likely to go to university. Here are eight good things about a birthday in the eighth month:
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Top academy or sink secondary school for your child?
Posted on 22 September 2011.
Parents have no real choice over their children’s secondary education.
Posted in At School, Gifted Children, LearningComments Off
A-level boy, 10, is off to Eton
Posted on 27 August 2011.
A schoolboy from east London who passed two A Levels at the age of 10 has been offered a place at Eton.
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Young, gifted and dry
Posted on 11 July 2011.
Teetotalism is all the rage for younger stars, but it could lead to a mammoth midlife crisis
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Gove’s GCSE targets will hurt gifted pupils, claims Tory MP
Posted on 07 July 2011.
Schools will ignore gifted pupils and those with special needs as a result of a new government target for ranking them, the Conservative chairman of the influential Commons select committee on education said yesterday.
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Four-year old art prodigy exhibits show in New York
Posted on 07 June 2011.
Four-year old acclaimed Australian artist, Aelita Andre, shows off her talent at a solo exhibition in a New York City gallery.
Posted in Family, Gifted Children, Pre-schoolersComments Off
Is it payback time for pushy parents?
Posted on 01 May 2011.
Parental involvement is the key to academic success, according to a new report. But there’s a big difference between encouraging your children and micromanaging their every step. Too much pressure can have devastating consequences, warns Anna Moore
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Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot
Posted on 21 January 2011.
Peter Mullan was a studious kid who ran with a knife gang in Glasgow. So is his shocking new film Neds based on his life?
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3yr old solves Rubiks cube in 114 seconds
Posted on 12 October 2010.
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Young, gifted and likely to suffer for it
Posted on 10 October 2010.
Young, gifted and likely to suffer for it
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Young, gifted and likely to suffer for it
Posted on 09 October 2010.
Young, gifted and likely to suffer for it
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Why gifted children are just as likely to fail in life
Posted on 28 September 2010.
Why gifted children are just as likely to fail in life
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Child geniuses ‘fail to meet expectations’
Posted on 27 September 2010.
Child geniuses ‘fail to meet expectations’
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10-month-old Chinese baby big as a six-year-old
Posted on 23 August 2010.
10-month-old Chinese baby big as a six-year-old
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Phil Redmond urges a new deal for Britain’s young, gifted and held back
Posted on 12 July 2010.
Phil Redmond urges a new deal for Britain’s young, gifted and held back
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Jordan Romero, 13, ‘becomes youngest to scale Everest’
Posted on 22 May 2010.
A 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, his family says.
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The new Beatle? Video
Posted on 20 May 2010.
TheLonelyTuber — May 10, 2008 — A South Korean toddler has become a worldwide Internet sensation after his parents posted a video of him performing the Beatles’ hit song “Hey Jude” when he was three years old.
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Why musical talent can stem from visual impairment
Posted on 18 May 2010.
On a normal after-school evening in South Godstone, Surrey, one school boy’s bedroom is ringing out to the sounds of a live concert of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy and Tony Christie’s Amarillo, with a dash of opera in between.
Posted in Disability, Gifted Children, Music, Dance and Drama, Visual ImpairmentComments Off
Child geniuses: What happens when they grow up?
Posted on 15 May 2010.
You’re the girl with the sky-high IQ, the boy who’s amazing at maths… and then what? Patrick Barkham quizzes bright sparks past and present
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Richard Herring: Young, gifted and … 40?
Posted on 26 April 2010.
Comedian Richard Herring is unmarried, addicted to Nintendo and devoid of practical skills. When his parents were the same age, they seemed so much more, well, grown up
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Why do Finland’s schools get the best results?
Posted on 10 April 2010.
Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn the secret of their schools’ success.
Posted in At School, Gifted Children, Learning, World NewsComments Off
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