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A Unique child: Gifted and talented - From the top

How do early years settings cater for exceptionally able children? Mary Evans hears from two of them.

Improving teaching and learning for the gifted and talented at Redbourn Infants School, Hertfordshire, has helped all the children make progress.

'When I joined as inclusion manager in 2006, it was in special measures,' says Louise McLellan, who is now deputy head teacher. 'One of the targets was to improve the education of the more able children. The county gifted and talented adviser suggested that working towards the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) Challenge Award would be a good way to audit what was already happening and think about ways to improve.

'We won the challenge award in 2007. It has raised the children and raised the school. We are now oversubscribed. We were a bit concerned that our parents would think it was elitist, but it benefits the whole school.'

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