About Archie

Archie is the youngest of 2 girls.  Her big sister is also gifted, just not as crazy making gifted as Archie.  She’s nowhere near as much of a challenge to raise and educate as Archie has been and is no doubt going to be in the future.

Archie was born in 2001 and is in Year 4 this year after a grade skip at the end of the 1st term in Year 1.  It was a badly performed skip for social and emotional reasons and academically it was certainly nowhere near enough.

Archie is profoundly gifted.  Her full scale IQ puts her beyond the 99th percentile and her verbal composite sub-scales scores puts her beyond the 99.99th percentile.

She’s weird in a totally geeky, nerdy, loveable sort of way.  Oh, and she’s a regular 8 year old girl in a whole bunch of other ways.

She is highly verbal and devours books.  We often comment that we find ‘bookworm poo’ in the form of piles of books that she’s read and discarded wherever she was.  She is also excellent at maths but she’s not a Terry Tao style prodigy and as her mum is highly verbal and not mathematical she’s lacked a strong math influence.  She has an exceptional ear for music and for languages and can mimic accents within moments.

She has an incredible memory with a knowledge bank that covers a wide range of interests.  She only needs to hear, see, or read something once and it’s super glued in that brain of hers (unless it’s something like clean your bedroom, or hand in your school notes!).

Her passions are astronomy, dinosaurs, ancients civilisations, and anything scientific in general.  Oh, and did I mention she loves to read?  Her goal is to become the first Australian female astronaut.  Secretly her mum hopes that Australia hurries up and starts it’s own space agency well before then so she doesn’t have to give up her Australian citizenship and move to the USA!

During Archie’s early school years we’ve met teachers that have ranged from mediocre, caring and well meaning but ineffective, and a complete disaster but we’re getting there.  She’s presently in a lovely local NSW government primary school but her mum supplements her learning at home.  Her family ensures that she is exposed to as many opportunities as possible to stimulate that amazing brain of hers and to help her develop into a passionate, empathic human being.

Archie’s mum has been writing her own blog for a couple of years now but she felt it was time for her to branch out and keep her stuff and Archie’s stuff separate.

So here we are.

Archie…and her mum.