Phone: (03) 9794 8258Commencing 2010
Welcome back everyone. Term dates for Victoria:- most schools start the WiseOnes program the week commencing February 8th. Make sure your fee is paid at the start of the school year to confirm your child’s place in the program as we have to prepare everything for the correct number of children. We do not use any of the school’s materials or resources other than a space. As term 1 is so short most schools will have two sessions at the start of term 2 then start that term’s unit straight after. In a couple of schools the teacher has negotiated finishing all 8 sessions in term 1 by holding a double session occasionally.
Im NSW the term goes a week longer so most will be able to complete the unit in term 1. Easter Sunday is 4th April.
Remember that your gifted child needs to enrol in the ‘hard” units as well, in order to learn to fail, to ask for help, to oversome perfectionism, to see that risk taking to learn is OK and to learn to make wise decisions about the effort that is required to attain the result they want at that time, for that work. In this way WiseOnes helps them cope with their gift, to prevent stress and to avoid later complications that often arise from the very nature of being gifted. We are not an academic enrichment program but a differentiated personal development program with Academic, Intellectual, Moral and Social aims specifically to help the gifted child from our own educational learning and the shared wisdom of our team of wonderful educators. Pat S
