Many schools now use the Excellence in Cities definitions of these words. The gifted are those with high ability in one or more academic subjects, and the talented are those with high ability in sport, music, visual arts and/or performing arts. Schools are encouraged to identify the top 5-10% of each year group as gifted or talented, regardless of the general level of ability within the school. Some schools prefer to use benchmarks to identify their gifted pupils.
Physical Education - curricular / extra-curricular delivery at school.
Sport - codified, competitive, physical activity outside of school.
Gifted and Talented Policy for PE and Sport
Rationale, aims and definitions.
Identification - systems and strategies.
Teaching and support - systems, organisation, mentoring and grouping.
Teaching and support - pedagogic responses, in school and out-of-school extra-curricular activities.
Professional development - ID & selection, teaching and support.
Physical Ability
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Often understood as skill or fitness-related ability, this describes the pupil who has the specific physical skills associated with high level physical performance. |
Social ability
Due to the nature of Physical Education, an area of fundamental importance in Physical Education is interpersonal ability, or the ability to interact with others.
Personal ability
Pupils with a high level of personal ability will regulate their own learning, set themselves goals and practice hard in their own context (coaching, leading or playing).
Cognitive ability
The pupil’s ability to transfer skills, concepts and applications between activities.
Junior Athlete Education
Junior Athlete Education (JAE) is a talent support programme for school sport partnerships to help their talented young sports people manage and balance both school and sport demands. Key features of JAE in schools are:
- support workshops for talented young athletes
- a workshop for their parents
- mentor support from identified staff in school.
JAE workshops cover aspects of lifestyle management, target setting and planning, to give young people skills to balance their schedules of school and sport.
Mentoring
- Mentors are appointed on a case-by-case basis for talented pupils in PE and sport.
- Mentors will be drawn from a variety of sources.
- For talented pupils in sport, the most significant focus for discussion with mentors is likely to be the maintenance of the work/sport/life balance.
- For talented pupils in PE, mentors are used to direct and enhance their specific ability.
- Mentoring groups will be based on different ratios, ranging from one-to-one, to larger groups of talented pupils with a single mentor.
To maximise the sporting potential of young athletes, school sport partnerships often work closely with local, regional or national governing bodies of sport, clubs and associations.
http://www.talentladder.org/
http://www.youthsporttrust.org/
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