Gifted and talented learners are defined those who have one or more abilities developed to a level significantly ahead of their year group (or with the potential to develop those abilities).
Gifted describes learners who have the ability to excel academically in one or more subjects such as English, drama, technology;
Talented describes learners who have the ability to excel in practical skills such as sport, leadership, artistic performance, or in an applied skill.
Our policy starts from the expectation that there are gifted and talented learners in every year group in every school. It is up to each school to decide on the proportion of their population who are gifted and talented. Since we believe that ability is evenly distributed throughout the population, a school's gifted and talented pupils should be broadly representative of its whole school population.
Guidance on identification is available at:
http://ygt.dcsf.gov.uk/FileLinks/312_new_guidance.pdf
