Key Competencies

The New Zealand Curriculum identifies five key competencies to increase capabilities for living and lifelong learning.
• The ability to make sense of information, experiences and ideas
• The ability to communicate effectively
• The ability to recognise capability within oneself and have strategies to meet challenges
• The ability to recognise, negotiate and work effectively with others in a range of contexts
• The ability to add value to a community through active involvement .
These are at the heart of every learning area. The needs of gifted students encompass cognitive, affective, social and aesthetic dimensions of the curriculum experience and as such they present a challenge to schools.

Gifted Seminars are aimed at supporting those students who ...
• Are quick to understand new concepts
• Make connections between concepts
• Act on the information to create new knowledge.
Able students who attend these courses are drawn together by a common purpose ... that of intellectual curiosity. Best evidence research shows that gifted students benefit from opportunities to interact with others of like mind, and to communicate with those who have expertise in the area of interest. They will be challenged to use their abilities in a variety of ways to enhance communication with others