GKP Curriculum Overview
The GKP Curriculum supports interaction with students of like-mind to:
- develop an understanding of themselves as gifted individuals
- explore and develop their gifts, talents and interests
- engage in abstract and complex learning
- experience and embrace new challenges
- create and innovate
The GKP Day is delivered via a specifically developed curriculum which integrates four major cornerstones.
- Mental Edge: the development of creative, critical and caring thinking skills including an emphasis on questioning and metacognition.
- Talent Development: the exploration and development of individual talents and passions.
- Conceptual Learning: a focus on macro concepts, through ’big ideas’ and a variety of related contexts.
- Affective Domain: the exploration of giftedness and its associated characteristics through self-reflection and comparison with gifted individuals from the past and present.
Main Points of Difference
Learning at the Gifted Kids Programme is very different to mainstream school learning. The main points of difference are:
- Like-minds together
- IQ and EQ support
- Specialist educators, curriculum and resources
- Strength-based/affirmative programme
- Focus on Talent Development
- Challenge, Choice, Control, Complexity, Caring
- Small class sizes
- Regular access to specialist mentors (in and out of the classroom environment)
