Gifted & talented

Thomas Peacocke Community College believes in maximising the potential of every child in our care. It supports and promotes learning and skills in a secure community atmosphere where children can be proactive in their learning and celebrate the acquisition of knowledge and talents. High achievement for all is vital and we need to ensure that the more able and talented students have high expectations and are challenged educationally and creatively.

Aims

To recognise that more able students have particular needs and require a more stimulating and challenging curriculum.
To excite the minds and abilities of these young people in the pursuit of excellence.
To enhance the curriculum to stimulate the whole educational community to enable all children including the able and talented to flourish.
To creatively involve all students in an exciting learning environment that promotes and celebrates success and enjoyment of learning.
To work in partnership within and across faculties, engaging the support of peer, parents and governors.

Definition

Our definition of able students and talented students is wide and diverse; ranging from the exceptionally academic to the gifts of those who have a talent in the arts and sports domains and those who show a wide range of other talents.

Provision

The needs of Gifted and Talented students are met in our school through:

The provision of a challenging curriculum where tasks are appropriated, differentiated and all teachers have high expectations of their students
The learning environment is appropriate and displays are relevant and sufficiently challenging, progression is mapped and sequential
Enrichment activities are part of whole school curriculum
Questioning techniques, which use higher order questions to challenge and develop thinking skills (critical and analytical), reactive thinking speculation, evaluation, justification, inference, hypothesis, synthesis, are developed.