Allerton Grange High School

Allerton Grange

Allerton Grange High School Gifted & Talented

Guidelines to support in the identification of G&T students

        Identification of Students on G&T

·         The student must be in the top 10% of their year group not their teaching set.

·         Using the KS2 SATs and CATS (Year Seven) results (English, Maths and Science). Students would be expected to achieve one score of very high or be consistently above average in the CATS testing. Students would normally expected to have achieved 5, 5, 5 in their Year 6 SATS.

·        Teachers will be asked to nominate students excelling in a particular subject or outstanding performance in lesson and shown through the data collection.

·        Student identified would normally have received a minimum of three teacher nominates across their subject areas or achieved exceptionally high in their CATS test. Students maybe nominated by one curriculum area, this will not automatically generate a place on the G&T cohort but curriculum areas should be setting work or extra curricular activities to challenge and stretch the abilities of these students. 

·         A parental nomination will be considered but must be investigated and supported by three teacher nominations.

 

Characteristics of G&T student

·         To be an outstanding reader

·         To be articulate or verbally fluent for their age

·         To have quick verbal responses

·         Have a wide general knowledge

·         Be interested in topics that might be associated with older students

·         Be able to communicate effectively with adults often better than their peer group

·         To show usual and original responses to problem solving 

·         To have an ability to work things out on their own quickly

·         To excel at art, music or sport

·         To have strong opinions and views

·         To have a lively and original imagination and sense of humour

·         To focus on own interests rather than what is taught

·         To be find it difficult to build relationships with their peer group

·         Be easily bored by a routine task

·         Show a strong sense of leadership   

·         Not necessarily appear to be well behaved

 

Identification of Underachievement of G&T Students

·         Gifted and talented underachievers may tend to have low self esteem or be confused about their development and about why they are being how they are

·         They try to change their environment to make themselves feel better

·         They can have a different attitude to those around them and therefore are in conflict with their peers

·         They may find point to others difficulties to excuse their own behavior

·         Some with abilities in one area may suffer or have difficulty in others that can lead to a barrier to achievement, disaffection and under achievement

 

Monitoring and Evaluating G&T students

·         Teaching staff review students progress on a regular basis through assessment of work

·         Teaching staff record an attainment level at regular intervals

·         These grades should be compared with expected grades or targets

·         The SAL, G&T Co-ordinator and Achievement manager should regularly monitor the attainment of G&T students

·         Subject teachers, SALS and Achievement Manager are expected to act on any underachievement

 

 

 

  

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 Added 29 March 2010