News Flash

Gifted Education makes the New Years Honours List…
To their surprise, both Rosemary and Pearl found themselves featuring in this year’s Honours List, Rosemary as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) and Pearl as a Member of the same Order (MNZM). Both women admit to feeling pleased at a personal level, but both are adamant that the main value of the Award and their reason for accepting it lies in its significance for gifted education as a whole. They both point out that this is acknowledgement by the highest powers in the land that support for gifted learners genuinely matters, surely sending a message to all school principals that they too should ensure the gifted learners in their schools are recognised and supported.