NAGC is a voluntary, membership organisation that provides help and support for gifted children, their families and their professionals. We have different types of benefits, including Family Membership and School Membership.

The School Area contains information, resources and links of interest to professionals, including governors, working with young people.

Through membership of NAGC, education, health and social care professionals will have access to a wide range of materials designed to make providing for gifted children easier and more effective. Schools and other child-focused organisations will benefit from practical information and resources and will have access to the comprehensive member's area of this site for professionals and gifted children. We will also be setting up be a Teachers Forum for member schools.

We have now launched a new initiative for a Gold Schools Membership. Go to Gold Schools for more information on this.

See below for membership benefits to your school.

Our services include an Information and Advice Service (01908 646433 ) run by Education Consultants. Non-members are able to use our Information and Advice Service as well.

NAGC School Membership

General benefits of NAGC Standard School Membership: Click here

• For details on the different types of membership and ways of joining, press the "membership" key on the menu bar.

• Current guidelines from the DCSF (Department for Children and Families) suggest that schools should be identifying their most able children in each year group as "gifted and talented" (G&T) and place them on a register. DCSF also gives recommendations for the identification of these pupils.
  NAGC receives many calls from parents whose children have been identified as G&T. These parents want to know what this means and how they can best support their children.
  

  Identifying gifted and talented learners DCSF Guidelines - getting started (Revised May 2008)

  These say:
  We encourage schools in identifying gifted and talented learners to focus on:
  

• learners aged 11 - 19 who meet the published eligibility criteria for the top 5% nationally (available at http://ygt.dcsf.gov.uk/Content.aspx?contentId=312&contentType=3) including those who were members of the former National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), and others who meet the criteria;
  
• in addition, learners aged 4 - 19 who are gifted and talented relative to their peers in their own year group and school/college;
  
• a range of abilities including talent in the arts and sport; and
  
• ability rather than achievement, so that underachievers are amongst those identified.

  There are gifted and talented learners in every year group in every school/college. All institutions are free to determine the size of their gifted and talented populations, but should be able to justify this in terms of improved standards for all learners identified. Every school/college should have some gifted and talented learners and should keep a register of those learners. Since relative ability changes over time, learners should move on and off the register when appropriate, though such movement might be expected to reduce with age. Since ability is evenly distributed throughout the population, a school's or college's gifted and talented population should be broadly representative of the whole learner population in terms of gender, ethnic and socio-economic background.