Stars of Wonder

Children from a Redland after-school class have received national

awards in recognition of their advanced level of studies in maths and

English.

The children, aged between 5 and 15, are all students

at the Redland Kumon Centre and have been added to Kumon's Advanced

Student Roll - a national listing of children who are studying within

their local Kumon centres at an advanced level relative to their school

age.    

16 local children received their awards at a ceremony

last Thursday at the Elmgrove Centre on Redland Road where they were presented with

bronze, silver or gold awards depending on how far on the Kumon

programme they had reached.

Double award winner Mia Accevedo-Ferron, of

St Andrews, is pictured with her bronze English award. The 7 year old,

a pupil at St John's School in Clifton, started Kumon 18 months ago and

is currently mastering the construction of complex sentences with

multiple clauses. Mia also received a gold award for her maths studies.

She has recently mastered three-digit column subtraction without

writing down her carries and borrows.

Tomas, a year 7 student

at Cotham School, received a silver ASR award in maths. He recently

came first out of 200 students who took a diagnostic maths test for

students new to secondary school and has been placed on the gifted and

talented list. "This is amazing, considering where he was in January,"

says his father Kevin.

There are currently 80 students attending the Redland Kumon Centre each week.

Centre Instructor Al Shaw says, "It's wonderful to see children

becoming strong students and fulfilling the potential. They've all

worked really hard to achieve these awards."