Most Able learners are defined as those who have one or more abilities developed to a level significantly ahead of their year group (or with the potential to develop these abilities).
Ofsted’s report on ‘The most able students: are they doing as well as they should in our non-selective secondary schools?’ made it clear that many most able students who attend non-selective secondary schools fail to achieve their full age-related potential compared with students who attend selective and independent schools.
Walthamstow Academy currently provides dedicated after school weekly provision for around 15% of our Key Stage 3 cohort – 50% more than national guidelines suggest. Our provision is led by staff who were themselves the Most Able at their schools and went on to attend the country’s top universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and UCL.
Provision is centred around three knowledge strands on a half-termly Carousel.
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Science |
Logic |
Arts |
HT2
October-December
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Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
HT2
January-February
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Year 9 |
Year 7 |
Year 8 |
HT2
February-April
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Year 8 |
Year 9 |
Year 7 |
Our provision is vertically integrated. Students move on from the extra-curricular KS3 Carousel to a wider focus on super-curricular provision outside of school, often in collaboration with University Widening Participation programmes, at KS4 and KS5.
Our Most Able provision is led by: