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.