More Able

At Castle View we believe that is important that all pupils identified as More Able make strong progress across the school and achieve high standards in all subjects.

How are ‘More Able’ identified?

KS2 SATS level 5 in both reading and maths, with a scaled score of 110+
Teachers and leaders regularly review the progress of our learners across the year groups to decide whether there are students demonstrating high ability in a number of subjects, these students will be added to our list to ensure they receive the optimum support in their studies.

How do we support our More Able students?

At Castle View we support our More-Able students through three key strands:

Teaching and Learning - ensuring that high-quality day-to-day teaching consistently challenges our pupils, therefore, enabling them to meet and exceed their target grades. High quality, high aspirational teaching will benefit all students, and not just the More Able.

Targeted Academic Support – ensuring that any high ability student who has fallen behind is quickly identified and supported to ensure that they can fulfil their potential.

Wider School Outlook – promoting a wider school culture of aspiration and ambition by encouraging students to pursue and set ambitious academic and personal goals to prepare them for a prosperous future.

What does this look like in practise?

At Castle View we look to support our More-Able students in a number of ways across the different subjects.

So far this year we have offered:

Small group mentoring by Senior Leaders to our Year 11 students.
Introduced More Able Learning profiles for our Year 11 students to support their learning in the classroom with the other year groups to follow this academic year.
Given the year 10 students the opportunity to meet a University Outreach person from Oxford University to inform them about life at university and the process of applying for universities (not just Oxbridge)
An in-school planetarium visit to our KS3 More Able students.
A career focused event to all year 9 students.
This list we continue to grow this year as we look to continue to improve and sustain the support we offer to our More Able pupils.

What can parents do to support their ‘More Able’ child?

There are many practical steps that you can take to support and nurture your child, for example by encouraging him/her to:

• Utilise the local library and the internet as learning and research resources
• Visit museums, science centres, nature reserves and art galleries
• Read a quality national newspaper
• Discuss and debate a wide range of topics
• Discuss homework and schoolwork
• Take part in extra-curricular activities
• Listen to different types of music
• Read for pleasure, including demanding/challenging books
• Take regular physical exercise
• Socialise and relax in between work and learn to ‘switch off’

More Able