The term “more able” (and previously “gifted and talented”) is used to identify a small cohort of students in school who are highly skilled or knowledgeable in a particular area.
At Uppingham Community College we have always identified our top 10% of students in each year academically and labelled them as our “more able” cohort.
However, this approach started to feel as if it went against our aim to develop a truly inclusive school culture. I have previously written in SecEd about our approach to developing independent learners and an inclusive culture (this latter article appearing in SecEd’s recent vulnerable learners supplement).
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