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We are keen to foster an environment where all students are encouraged to achieve the best grades of which they are capable and to stimulate their desire to gain knowledge and confidence, enabling them to develop initiative, leadership and communication skills.
We achieve good results by providing:
Academic Extension
Baseline tests help us identify our gifted and talented pupils so that we can make appropriate provision for them. As well as expecting high academic standards and providing appropriately differentiated work, we organise special activities for them in the Lower School and Main School. This term the “Bright Sparks” programme for Lower School has included the following items:
- An investigation into reading, led by Mrs Dunford
- A Team University Challenge competition, won by the Cheesy Pineapples
- A word trail activity based on general knowledge and esoteric dictionary entries
- Presentations by each team on historical ‘what ifs …?’:
- What if Harold had won the battle of Hastings?
- What if Philip II’s Armada had conquered England?
- What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?
- What if Germany had won the Battle of Britain?
In the Sixth Form a significant academic extension programme is in place, in which the more able students play a leadership role.
Our academically able students who qualify (MidYIS or Yellis score of 126 or over) are also enrolled in the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth . From September 2006 our able pupils in Year 9 will be taking the Critical Thinking AS course, which develops higher-level thinking skills that are invaluable across the curriculum. It will also stretch and challenge our more able students, who will take the examination at the end of Year 10.
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