More Able Children
We also feel that more able children need additional challenges to fully realise their potential. Their progress from their starting point is carefully tracked in our termly pupil progress meetings.
Additional support is given to extend those children who are doing particularly well in their class work or who are showing that they are working well above age appropriate expectations.
Quality First teaching enables a strong level of differentiation. Staff understand that there are different 'layers of learning' and pick the appropriate level for the needs of the child. More able children should be working at the applying and analysing and creating and evaluating levels. This will enable them to reach greater depth.
Layers of Learning
Differention of work in classes is linked closely to Blooms Taxonomy which identifies layers of learning.
- Engaging with learning:
Hook, Opening, Inspiration, Engagement, Starter, Warm up.
- Understanding and Remembering:
Listen, Locate, Match, Label, Name, Observe, State, Tell, What, Where, When, Who, Repeat, Identify, Discuss, Estimate, Explain, Demonstrate, Interpret, Outline, Predict, Restate, Summarise, Illustrate, Infer.
- Applying and Analysing:
Apply, Calculate, Choose, Classify, Research, Categorise, Demonstrate, Experiment, Group, Link, Make use of, Organise, Perform, Plan, Practice, Analyse, Arrange, Choose, Discover, Distinguish, Examine, Find, Group, Investigate, Compare, Test, Simplify.
4.Creating and Evaluating:
Adapt, Add to, Build, Change, Combine, Compile, Compose, Construct, Create, Design, Develop, Devise, Write, Estimate, Imagine, Invent, Make up, Modify, Plan, Predict, Produce, Solve, Visualise, Appraise, Evaluate, Assess, Compare, Choose, Justify, Judge, Measure, Persuade, Recommend, Test, Validate, Vote
More able provision
Recently, some Year 5 and 6 children attended an Able Writers workshop at Selling Primary School where they worked with an author for the day.
We have also hosted an Able Mathematicians afternoon at the school, where children from two other schools joined us to take part in mathematical challenges.