Gifted & Talented
Who are we?
We are students from The Hayesbrook School, ranged across several years from Year 8 to Year 11. Each of us are gifted within one to several subjects from the whole curriculum; such as geography and English.
What do we do?
We meet up each and every week. We are used as the student voice on subjects which affect 'Gifted and Talented' matters. Examples of events we have organised are a Puzzle Day, where G&T pupils were rewarded. Also we have organised a quiz evening held within the school to test parents. At the moment we are also helping to organise a Gifted and Talented day involving a variety of schools in the Tonbridge area.
My son has been identified as Gifted and Talented...
...but what does that mean?
Following is the breakdown of the criteria which is used in each subject when identifying our gifted and talented students, making it subject based and therefore specific to you and your son. This will hopefully help you to identify your son's strengths and further your understanding of extra responsibilities he may have around the school and other pressures he may be under as a consequence of his natural ability.
According to the DfE, pupils are identified as
gifted if they achieve, or have the ability to achieve, significantly above average in one of the National Curriculum subjects other than art, performing arts or physical education.
Pupils are
talented if they achieve, or have the ability to achieve significantly above average in art, performing arts or physical education compared with other students in the school at their year group. Therefore a student can be identified as both 'gifted' and 'talented'.
Languages
In line with whole school policy, The MFL department defines its gifted and talented students as "a pupil that requires something different from, or in addition to the rest of the cohort, or has a real flare for the subject."
The department register is updated regularly and this policy is reviewed on an annual basis.
As department, we provide:
- differentiated teaching delivered through both individual, pair and group activities
- differentiated resources (worksheets, text books) to extend our able students
- innovative use of new technologies to raise the achievement and motivation of gifted and talented pupils
- opportunities for enrichment (language clubs, trips to the Europa Centre, the foreign language leaders award)
- support and guidance when making choices
- assessment data to ensure challenge and sustained progression in individual pupils' learning
- formative assessment and individual target setting to maximise pupils' achievements
- transfer information concerning gifted and talented pupils to ensure progress in learning
- recognition of achievement and celebration of the successes of all our students (end of term certificates, postcards to parents, reward trips)
- an environment which promotes positive behaviour for learning
- early identification and support for able underachievers (letters to parents, extra KS4 revision)
- regular review of performance against targets to ensure progression
- letters to inform parents of opportunities such as trips and extended learning outside the classroom including opportunities to develop their independent language learning by visiting the following websites:
