Able Strategy

At Abbeyfield School, we are passionate about ensuring that all students are aspirational and achieve their potential or beyond. 

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• To support our most able students we have a cross curriculum programme to ensure that students are pushed to fulfil their potential and receive support to access the top universities or apprenticeship programmes post 18. 

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Our ‘Able Students’ are identified as those with an overall likely GCSE grade average of 7.2 or higher. 

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Some key elements of our Able strategy include; 

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1. As part of our T&L strategy all lessons should evidence challenge, and teachers should be able to identify their Able students and discuss how they have adapted their teaching to ensure these students are challenged in their learning.

2. Brilliant Programme for our most Able Students which will provide additional stretch and challenge to support students to be aspirational in post-16 and post-18 pathways, and have the skills required to be successful with these applications. The programme will run throughout the year as both KS3 and KS4 cohorts with workshops to focus on both skills and pathways.

3. Regular awards to recognise the achievements of our Most Able students.

4. QA through drop-in’s, book scrutiny’s, student voice and data analysis to monitor both our Able Student provision and attitude to learning of our most Able students. 

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If you would like any more information about our whole school Able programme, please contact Miss Jones in the first instance: sxj@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk