MASTERING PHILANTHROPY The first batch of students under the Program for the Gifted and Talented after the awarding ceremony in Dubai College in October L-R SEN Officer-in –Charge Analiza Adarlo, Hans Jared Pozon, , Marcus Cedrick Manuel, Clarence Pagaduan, Joseph Daniel Tambis and Evan Lorenz Baltazar

First batch of gifted, talented students wins second place in Dubai College philanthropic contest

First batch of gifted, talented students wins second place in Dubai College philanthropic contestBy TPS Insights Five students, who qualified under the first ever program in TPS for the gifted and talented, won second place in the philanthropic interest competition awarded by Dubai College on October 15, 2018.Primary students Hans Jared Pozon, Marcus Cedrick Manuel, Joseph Daniel Tambis, Clarence Pagaduan and Evan Lorenz Baltazar were the representatives of The Philippine School.Dubai College, a British system secondary school, had an outstanding rating from the Knowledge and Human Development Authority. The institution organized a competition for the gifted and talented primary school students, where twelve international schools competed in sporting, academic, creative and philanthropic categories.

Posted by The Philippine School, Al Muhaisnah 2, Dubai on Monday, October 22, 2018

  

Five students, who qualified under the first ever program in TPS for the gifted and talented, win second place in the philanthropic competition awarded by Dubai College on  October 15, 2018.

Primary students Hans Jared Pozon, Joseph Daniel Tambis, Clarence Pagaduan and Evan Lorenz Baltazar were the representatives of The Philippine School.

Dubai College, a British system secondary school, which had an outstanding rating from the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, organized a competition for the gifted and talented primary school students, where twelve international schools competed in sporting, academic, creative and philanthropic categories.

The students were challenged to create a charitable act and plan how to distribute and donate a large amount of money to other people, after that, explain its purpose.

Grade 7A Marcus Cedrick Manuel said, “It’s not actually what I expected. I expected tests ; however, we did a lot of activities.I had a lot of fun doing the pottery and philanthropic activities.”

TPS representatives qualified under the PGT program by having superior stanine in ability tests, which indicates that they performed better than 99 percent of the pupils, who were tested in school.

They also had stanine 9 in Otis–Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT), a test of abstract thinking and reasoning ability of children, and +123 mean score in Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT 4).

This is the first year of the implementation of the PGT program in TPS under the Special Education Needs  Department, and the first engagement of the students in a competition.