lickey hills presentation conference 2007

Lickey Hills Primary School: 

Lickey Hills Primary School Gifted and Talented Programme

What to do first?: 

What to do first? Identify the children Identify ways of supporting them

Identification: 

Identification Children with one or more abilities to a level significantly ahead of their year group, or with the potential to develop those abilities. (DfES) This could be a very specific area within a subject Underachieving or SEN pupils who are gifted and talented. These abilities can change overtime.

Identification: 

Identification

Provision: 

Provision Audit what you are already doing – Class room provision that benefits all learners Class room provision that benefits individuals or small groups Whole school provision that benefits G andamp; T learners Out of school provision that benefits G andamp; T learners

Classroom Provision: 

Classroom Provision open ended projects higher order questioning differentiated activities setting extension and enrichment activities more complex tasks individual targets individual learning objectives increased pace through the curriculum targeted TA support special interest days/weeks partnership activities with other year groups special events and visitors choice of activities involvement in planning activities

Whole School: 

Whole School TAG committee sports coaching foreign language lessons musical instrument tuition choir/orchestra leadership opportunities Talent Showcase art exhibitions achievement assemblies access to laptops for home use competitions festivals master classes sports partnership sport events whole school special events news team Website Homework projects and challenges

Personalising the Curriculum: 

Personalising the Curriculum A ‘skill’ based curriculum – ‘A World Class Curriculum’ Planning for their own learning – Let them choose Differentiation, extension and enrichment

Extending the More Able: 

Extending the More Able In an English lesson the class were asked to produce a discursive essay on the title ‘Fox hunting is an attack on rural life. Do you agree or disagree?’ The most able were expected to produce 3 sides of A4, and the other pupils 2 sides. In a history lesson on Victorian fashion and how fashion changed during the era, the more able children were asked to speculate on reasons why fashion had changed.