Abstract
Every summer Nene College School of Sciences organises a one week Science Enrichment Course for 13 year old children who are talented in Science. This paper describes how the course was set up by a working party of keen science teachers, who although they feel that the needs of the most able should be met within the normal school, with increasing pressures and decreasing resources, this task is a formidable one. The paper describes the methodology for testing the children and includes a summary of the test results which indicate that talented children in Science are very demanding on both resources and teachers' time and consequently they are not challenged nearly enough. Children had forthright comments to make about science education and it is a refreshing change to record what children feel and think.
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