Gifted & Talented

Gifted and Talented students are defined as those who have one or more abilities developed to a level significantly ahead of their year group (or with the potential to develop these abilities).

The term 'Gifted' refers to those students who are capable of excelling in academic subjects e.g. Science and Maths and ‘Talented' to those students who excel in areas requiring visio-spatial skills or practical abilities e.g. in Sport, Drama, Music and Art.

It is fully recognised that provision for Gifted and Talented students can act to counteract disadvantage. Direct intervention is particularly critical for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enable them to reach their potential and raise their aspirations.

The Academy will develop an agreed process for identifying Gifted and Talented students and then regularly review those identified so that identification and review becomes an ongoing process.

In providing for its Gifted and Talented students, the Academy will seek to:
• Develop an ethos where its ‘cool', accepted and sought after to be bright and/or talented. • Recognise and reward achievement.
• Provide a wide range of extension and enrichment opportunities
• Maximise the links with Adams' and the wider family of Haberdashers' schools to achieve this end.
• Ensure that attainment targets reflect the ability and potential to secure appropriate pace and challenge in learning.
• Ensure students are working at an appropriate level and are provided with resources to support their learning and progression.
• Provide a range of ‘fast track' or ‘early entry' routes through KS3 and KS4 for the more able students supporting stage not age examination.