The Department for Education defines ‘gifted’ children as those within the top range of a class in any academic year.  ‘Talented’ children are those who demonstrate abilities in the Arts and sport.

We make special consideration for these children at our school and have been awarded the NAACE (National association for able children in education) challenge award for our work in this area.

We provide extra opportunities for these children through our ‘Beyond school’ programme, extra curricular work and differentiation within class.  We identify these children by the use of a survey when children join us in Year 3 and through our classroom observations.

We formally recognise their abilities by making a ‘gold award’ each half term.