It offers genuine intellectual and creative challenge, is cross-disciplinary, holistic and skills based. It engenders the spirit of enquiry, questioning and curiosity. It appreciates originality, allows the child to make choices and move towards autonomous learning. It motivates the child to make moral and ethical decisions and builds self-esteem and social skills. It is important to stress we are not looking for the rare genius.
Gifted children occupy a large band of atypical ability and talent.
Bright children and high achievers have been known to benefit considerably from the gifted programme. Also, there are different degrees of giftedness. And again, giftedness may be relative to the peer group and norm referenced in a school community. A gifted child thinks differently. Many are verbally fluent and often with a preference for verbal expression.