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The Gifted and Talented programme identifies talented children and helps them to achieve more A and A* grades at GCSE. Every school has a gifted and talented co-ordinator. Learning Mentors from a wide variety of backgrounds, provide one-to-one support to motivate individual pupils and help them overcome barriers to learning. Beacon Schools are schools that have been identified as excelling in a particular area. As with Specialist Schools, Hull’s two Beacon Schools - St Mary’s College and Hull Trinity House - will be expected to share their expertise and be seen as models for other schools. Specialist Schools are high-achieving schools which provide specialist teaching and facilities in a particular area. Hull currently has three specialist schools, St Mary’s College for sport, Malet Lambert for languages, Winifred Holtby for technology and Pickering for sports. Excellence in Cities will ensure that the specialist teaching they provide will be shared at schools across the city. This was the last strand to be introduced into the Excellence in Cities programme and, as with other strands, is breaking new ground. Spanning the 14 - 19 age group, Excellence Challenge is about raising aspirations and ambitions so that more pupils move onto post-16 learning and then onto University. It operates through two streams: widening participation (14 - 19) and Gifted and Talented (16 - 19).Although initially aimed at the 14 - 19 age group, it was recognised very early on in Hull that raising aspirations needs to be part of the culture of the youngest children. To that end, Excellence Challenge will broaden out into primary schools from January 2003. Learning Support Units provide dedicated, staffed areas where disruptive pupils can be supervised instead of being excluded. Eleven Hull schools currently provide this facility. City Learning Centres (CLC) provide high tech resources in ICT to enrich the national curriculum as well as community training facilities. Hull has two CLCs at Sir Henry Cooper School and Archbishop Thurstan School Excellence in Cities Action Zone build links with business to bring extra resources into education. Hull has two Action Zones, centred around David Lister and Isaac Newton schools and their partner primaries, managed by a joint director. |
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