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Extension and Enrichment activities
  • GIFT courses. In the past some of our pupils have received information about curriculum extension courses run by the GIFT organisation. These courses are available for all year groups and cover a wide range of topics from Archaeology to Zoology. If your son/daughter would like to apply, please follow the link to www.giftltd.co.uk/courses
  • Villiers Park Courses  Villiers Park Educational Trust is a charity that helps very able young people to get into leading universities.  Support, courses and online activities are provided for 14 – 19 year olds. Residential courses are also available for members of YGT. For more information please follow the link to www.villierspark.org.uk

 Funding is available on a first come first served basis for the courses below, please see Ms Dale ASAP if you are interested.

Gift Easter School 11th - 16th april

Useful Links

Gift LTD

DCSF Young Gifted and talented

NACE - the National Association for Able Children in Education

NRICH Project

NAGC - National Association for Gifted Children

London Gifted & Talented 

G & T workshops
For two days in May, 53 G & T students, ranging from year 7 to year 10, were taken off timetable to participate in workshops aimed at giving them opportunities to work with other G & T students, to pursue one topic all day, with a specialist presenter, learning new skills, applying their knowledge and being challenged and ‘stretched’.  
 There were three courses to choose from:

‘Survive’ challenged students to develop their leadership skills, build on their strengths and overcome their weaknesses in ways outside the standard curriculum; building vegetable racing cars was only part of the day!

 ‘Seeing Stars’ challenged students to explore a variety of systems of prediction, prophecy and personality interpretation.  The aim was to try to develop methods of testing and comparing the accuracy of such systems as astrology, palmistry, tarot cards and graphology.  The students questioned whether there was anything in them from which science could learn? 
 ‘Flying High’ – challenged students to learn about the history of flight, from first principles to test flights; the students constructed and flew their own hot air balloons 
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