Asserting that state schools can meet the needs of able pupils, this text provides practical strategies for both senior managers and classroom teachers to achieve this end. It explores the issues and problems surrounding good provision and suggests why schools have found this area so difficult.

Asserting that state schools can meet the needs of able pupils, this text provides practical strategies for both senior managers and classroom teachers to achieve this end. It explores the issues and problems surrounding good provision and suggests why schools have found this area so difficult. The book sites examples of good practice in all phases of school-based education, and in particular looks at ways in which extension planning for able pupils can be developed as part of general planning.

Defining able children
Identification
A differentiated approach to classroom planning
Classroom provision
Issues for secondary schools
Issues for primary schools
Appendix 1: Writing a policy for the more able
Appendix 2: Marston Middle School, Oxford: policy for able pupils.