Castlemaine Mail, Friday September 12, 2008
Reproduced by permission
Home educated Maldon student Amelia Rowe has achieved outstanding results in the 2008 Rio Tinto Big Science Competition.
The Big Science Competition is a national competition held annually throughout Australia, creating a fun and challenging way for students to be involved in science.
Nine-year-old Amelia competed in the Year 7/8 [...]
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Maldon Young Scientist Shines
Home Educating Gifted Children
By Susan Wight
Home educating is all very well, but what if your children are gifted? Won’t they need the special programs only available in school? How could a parent be qualified to educate them? Don’t gifted children have trouble socialising anyway, and won’t home education make that worse?
School Provision
Firstly, let’s look at those “special programs” [...]