Medbury School
Play the Game
Acceleration and Enrichment A variety of approaches
Scott Johnson
The goal of the Acceleration and Enrichment
Extension opportunities that are provided at Medbury
programme at Medbury is: For all boys at Medbury to
include:
be suitably challenged and extended in all areas of their education. As a school, we do not affiliate ourselves with one specific programme but rather use a variety of approaches to help extend the wide range of abilities and interests shown by our students. Gagne’s Differentiated Model of Giftedness and
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Future Problem Solving
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Philosophy for Children (P4C)
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EPro8 Science and Technology Challenge
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CREST Science Fair
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Cantamaths Problem Solving Competition
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Aristotle Emotional Intelligence Program (Swinburne University)
Talent (2015) makes a distinction between gifts and talent, in which ‘gifts’ refers to a student’s innate
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competition for Years 7-8)
potential and ‘talent’ refers to their current level of ability. We aim to extend not only those who are
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already achieving well but also those with innate abilities who need extra support to unlock their potential. The term ‘Acceleration’ means teaching boys at higher curriculum levels than expected for their age.
Scenario Writing (science fiction writing Writing Workshops from the School for Young Writers
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Banqer (financial literacy)
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Speech and Drama
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Specialist Music Itinerant Programmes.
This is achieved through Streamed Mathematics
There is also a broad range of extra-curricular
classes and differentiated instruction within the
opportunities, including, but not limited to Chess,
classroom. The term ‘Enrichment’ means increasing
Robotics, Drama Troupe, Sports Academies, Choirs,
the depth and complexity of instruction and learning
Rock Bands, Orchestra and Jazz Band.
tasks. This is achieved through the way in which our teachers deliver thought-provoking lessons, together with a selection of extension programmes.
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Scott Johnson, Year 6 Team Leader, Year 6 Teacher, and Acceleration and Enrichment Coordinator
