Launchpad One Day School for Gifted Children

Is Launchpad One Day School right for my child?

Giftedness is exceptional potential and intensity in one or more areas — a unique way of seeing, thinking, and engaging with the world, nurtured through connection, challenge, and care.

Research in gifted education has identified a range of well-documented indicators that can help us recognise and understand giftedness in children.

Gifted indicators
“A gifted child’s acute perception, heightened sensitivity and imagination, abstract interpretation of events and interactions elicit intense emotional responses.

Whether real or imagined, gifted children’s perceptions are their reality.”
— Juratowitch, M. 2013

Identifying a gifted child.

Each gifted child has a unique profile of strengths and traits (which can be expressed both positively and negatively).

Have a look through the lists of indicators below. If your child demonstrates a number of these, it could mean they are gifted.

Indicators:

    • Early reader, and/or has advanced reading skills.

    • Advanced general knowledge for their age.

    • Advanced maths skills.

    • Advanced vocabulary.

    • Enjoys and concentrates on puzzles.

    • Excellent memory, retains information easily.

    • Loves being read to and closely follows the story.

    • Makes intricate constructions.

    • Mental speed is faster than writing ability.

    • Produces original work.

    • Has excellent ideas but has difficulty recording them by writing.

    • Produces very detailed drawings.

    • Intensely curious, asks a lot of questions.

    • High expectations of self.

    • Vivid imagination.

    • Very observant.

    • Intuitive.

    • Very independent, likes to do things for themselves.

    • Highly competitive.

    • Tends to lead and direct activity.

    • Concerned with fairness.

    • Empathetic or emotionally deep.

    • Keen sense of humour.

    • Need for emotional support, easily wounded.

    • Plays with older children.

    • Easily frustrated.

    • Sensitive to detail.

    • Intense interest on one area.

    • Has a wide range of hobbies and interests.

    • Shows sensitivity to things, causing distress.

    • Corrects the teacher.

    • Enjoys their own company.

    • Excited about new learning and ideas.

    • Daydreams and seems to get lost in their own world.

    • Invents their own games.

    • Highly energetic, needing less sleep or downtime.

    • Temper, especially when they perceive failure.

Once you register your interest for One Day School, we will be in touch with further information to support your child's application.

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