Focus on gifted pupils and the whole school benefits

11 Dec 2009

Having an effective programme in place for gifted and talented pupils is not elitist. Schools that ensure all pupils, including gifted and talented, are suitably challenged find that all pupils benefit.

As one headteacher told inspectors, in thinking more about the needs of gifted and talented pupils, it helped to add rigour to lesson planning and teaching for all pupils throughout the school. The report, Gifted and talented pupils in schools, reveals that although most of the 26 schools visited recognised that improving provision for gifted and talented pupils was important, it was not their highest priority. All had a policy for gifted and talented pupils but many of them were generic and these were not sufficiently effective in improving performance.

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