Senior Newsletter - The Southport School

QUEENSLAND ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED AND TALENTED CHILDREN INC.
GOLD COAST BRANCH
The QAGTC Gold Coast Branch organises a range of Saturday afternoon workshops for gifted
children throughout the school terms. A parent support group usually runs in conjunction with
the workshops, sometimes featuring an invited guest speaker. The group aims to provide a regular forum where
parents can obtain information, support and advice on raising, motivating and advocating for gifted children, and
where they can also make friends and contacts within the QAGTC community, specifically on the Gold Coast.
Particularly if you’ve recently discovered that your child has been identified as gifted and you’re wondering what it
all means, it can be helpful to compare notes with others who are experiencing the same challenges in supporting
their children, in working with the school systems (or perhaps even homeschooling), and in dealing with a young
person whose behaviour and academic performance may not always fall within normal expectations. Discussing your
child’s education and development with others in a similar position sometimes helps to put things in perspective.
And it can be reassuring to meet parents who have been where you are now, but whose gifted kids have actually
“turned out ok”.
August Parent Support Group Meeting
Informal Discussion with Carol Barnes on Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities (GLD)
and other Possible Causes of Academic Underachievement
Carol will have just returned from speaking on GLD at two international conferences in Seattle and Prague.
She will do a mini-introduction to GLD, and then talk a bit about the latest research from overseas about
these gifted yet counter-intuitive learners.
There will be lots of time for discussion and questions. The seminar will be useful for parents and teachers
of gifted children at both the primary and secondary levels. Community members are also welcome to
attend. Tea and coffee will be in plentiful supply, as will access to general information on gifted resources
and contacts.
Date: Saturday, 27 Aug 2011
Time:
Venue:
Cost:
2:00 – 4:00 pm (please arrive at 1:45pm for registration)
Queensland Academy for Health Sciences (QAHS), Edmund Rice Dr, Southport
Free (gold coin donation appreciated to cover catering costs)
For catering purposes bookings are essential, as places are limited. Please book via the website:
www.qagtc.org.au. For email bookings, please send your name and contact details to our
Treasurer at: gc_treasurer@qagtc.org.au . All other enquiries to goldcoast@qagtc.org.au please –
not to the school.
Please Note: Children do not attend our meetings.
Information on children’s workshops running at the same time and place can be found here:
http://www.qagtc.org.au/gold-coast. Children not participating in workshops during the meeting
remain their parents’ responsibility. QAGTC has no child-minding facilities and can assume no
responsibility for unsupervised children.
QAGTC is a not-for-profit member-funded volunteer-based association relying on public support to support gifted children, their
families and teachers. The opinions expressed at this activity by guest speakers and by QAGTC volunteers are those of the
individual concerned and not necessarily of QAGTC. QAGTC Inc. Gold Coast Branch would like to thank this venue for their
generosity in allowing us to use this venue for our meeting this month.