Welcome To GIFT
GIFT is a company that grew out of a history of over 30 years of continuous provision for the Exceptionally Able, Gifted and Talented child. It is now a specialist consultancy which runs both residential and non-residential courses for gifted children of all ages with a unique resource base of specialists providing over four hundred different extension courses for every imaginable discipline from Archaeology to Zoophysics.
GIFT runs age-specific residential and non-residential courses for school students. There's no stress, no exams, no marking, no hothousing, no 'school' discipline, and no bullying. We work in small groups with a graduate/post-graduate expert lecturer in the field (police-checked, of course). There is plenty of discussion, individual attention, opportunity to go off at tangents, depth and breadth of learning at the highest level, truth, and networking with like-minded kindred spirits. Pleasure and enjoyment come out of this mixture and out of that come relaxation and equanimity.
Don't take our word for it. Click HERE to read comments from past and present GIFTers. Come and see for yourself!
Forthcoming GIFT courses
To see our full calendar of courses for the year ahead click on COURSES FOR STUDENTS
For further details on a course (if available) click the title. If there is a flyer for a course then there will be a "Flyer (PDF)" link to click. Application forms on the flyers can be printed and posted or copied, pasted and e-mailed to us.
SPONSORSHIP is available to parents where there is financial hardship. Please contact Tomorrow's Achievers (Patricia Morse 0207 734 0161) or The Potential Trust (Anna Comino-James 01844 351666) for more details.
| Date | Event | Venue | Ages | Flyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | ||||
| 11th | Masterclass | Tate Britain Gallery, London | Years 7-11 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 12th | Masterclass | Tate Britain Gallery, London | Years 7-11 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 17th-19th | Residential Weekend Course FULL | Hatfield Peverel, Essex | Years 7-10 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 18th | Masterclasses | Buttsbury CJ School, Billericay, Essex | Years 3-6 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 18th | Masterclass | Tate Britain Gallery, London | Years 7-11 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 19th | Masterclass | Tate Britain Gallery, London | Years 7-11 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 19th | Masterclasses | Lord Williams's School, Thame Oxfordshire | Years 7/8 | Flyer (PDF) |
| June 2013 | ||||
| 7th-9th | Residential Weekend Course | Grendon, Northamptonshire | Years 7/8 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 8th | Masterclass | Tate Britain Gallery, London | Years 7-11 | Flyer (PDF) |
| 9th | Masterclass | Tate Britain Gallery, London | Years 7-11 | Flyer (PDF) |
Keeping in Contact with Other GIFTers
If you want to find out how to become part of the GIFT Facebook group, so that you can view when and where GIFTers are meeting socially, then simply add Jacob Siriwardena as a friend on Facebook. After this, just send him a message to invite you to the group. You'll then be able to view everything that is happening.
Things to do
There's lots of things to take part in and see coming up both with GIFT and at a location near you...here are some examples:
The 2013 National Physical Laboratory Water Rocket Challenge
'Enrichment Activities for Gifted and Talented Children'
99 ideas for enrichment activities in secondary school
An Optimus Publishing Publication
Residential Centres
GIFT only uses venues which abide by Statutory Codes of Practice and, where applicable, each specific Local Education Authority's own Safety Code with regard to health, hygiene, safety, security and risk assessment. Naturally, parents are welcome to check over security arrangements at, and access to, centres prior to course commencement. Specific information (contact details, maps, websites, photographs, etc) pertaining to each of the main centres used is available by clicking on the centre name below:
- Grendon Hall, Grendon, Northamptonshire
- Cardfields, Hatfield Peverel, Essex
- Bradwell, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex
- Ripple Down House, Ringwould, Kent
- Freiston Hall, Freiston, Lincolnshire