Abolition of G&T Register

[Pallas27]

Apparently this was stopped in Feb 10 and is to be replaced with an Annual Schools Census.

Does anyone know anything about this?

No! Where have you heard that?

I remember something said on here a few months ago about them doing away with the G&T thing.

I hope this is true

The telegraph article linked in the OP of this thread mentions it.

It was all a bit of a con anyway or sop to parents with clever children.

It was a big swizz as well. Some schools (one of my previous ones did this) told us to pick the 2 "best" children from each class and they would go on the register. So if you had a class full of very-behinds, 2 of them would still go on G&T. And if you had a class full of Einsteins, only 2 of them would go on G&T. And if you were G&T one year, you might not be next year. How do you suddenly stop being gifted or talented?

Of course not everyone did it this way, but still...

As you can tell I'm not a fan!

Thats interesting - my sons teacher told me last week that ds was to go on the school's G&T reg - this apparently no longer exists! Looks like she didn't get the memo!

I wonder if the Special needs reg is being abolished as well? He is on both.

I did wonder at the point of it all...

i think it should be abolished all kids are g&t each child is an individual and why should some kids be classed better than others.
my son is in the top 30% of the population for his age and an a* student in chemistry and a in english maths and other sciences doing triple gcse science at 13 does this make him better than his little sister who is under the speech and language i dont think so because she is gifted in other ways by just being her
one of the worst things this government could have done for kids telling them they are better than others i tell my kids there equal to others not better
chris

Bizzarely they are apparently introducing something similar to G&T in Wales at the moment (we don't have G&T). It seems as though the UK education system is just going round in circles!

Circles, circles and then some! Somebody once worked out that if you taught for 40 years and never ever took on 'new initiatives' or any of the guff that is introduced every so often, your teaching style would be in fashion 7 times.

My daughter was on it last year and all I can say is that it was just piece of paper, and nothing additional, or extra curricular, or extra, was done with her. I have never seen any benefit to it.
I have only heard that this year they will more focus on arts and sports, then numeracy and literacy.

I made a detailed post in that thread about future plans for G&T and how it's going to develop under the new name of National Challenge G&T (as a precursor to dropping the term G&T from the title eventually).

The register still exists now.

G&T is still meant as a whole school improvement plan (rather than some ignorant comments on these boards - from parents and teachers alike - which seem to suggest it's for a small section of selected children), and it's still at the core of DCSF's plans for proper provision across the board.

It's a con in that many schools don't know enough about it, don't implement it properly and therefore do the whole school a disservice.

Round of applause, well said DadAtLarge, and thank you for your contribution to the topic. I didn't know where to start with such negativity in the previous posts.

My hope is that work in this area will grow and grow.

It is horrifying that only one university in the country is currently running a masters course in Gifted and Talented Education (and that didn't run for the past 3 years).