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National Association for Able Children in Education
Our vision and mission

NACE vision and
mission refresh

NACE CEO Rob Lightfoot shares the thinking behind our refreshed vision and mission statements, reflecting our commitment to supporting schools across all contexts to ensure all young people have opportunities to develop their abilities without limits.

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Subject spotlight: religious education
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5 top tips for stretching the
most able secondary school
students in RE

NATRE Steering Group member Charlotte Newman shares five practical approaches to build challenge into your secondary RE curriculum – keeping teachers and students alike engaged, interested and thinking hard.

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New resources created for the NACE community by the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE)

Identifying a more able child in RE

RE activities to challenge more able learners in Reception

Ideas to challenge more able learners in RE

Discussion cards activity example

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Upcoming events...
FREE WEBINAR Equity in education: challenge for all

Webinar: Equity in education – challenge for all
Wednesday 12 February; online

Free live webinar with leading educator and author Morgan Whitfield – exploring the structural inequities within schools and how these can be addressed to ensure equity, inclusivity and rigorous challenge for all.

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Managing and effective EYFS curriculum

Managing an effective
EYFS curriculum

Friday 28 February; Oxfordshire

A deep dive into the key ingredients for effective EYFS provision, including curriculum design, pedagogical principles and practical examples with a focus on “low-prep, high-impact” approaches.  

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FREE WEBINAR Challenging your learners in KS3 geography

Webinar: Challenging your learners in KS3 geography
Wednesday 12 March; online

Free live webinar with the Royal Geographical Society, sharing practical strategies and highlighting a range of free online resources to enrich your geography provision at KS3.

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Member meetup: practical activities in science

Member meetup: practical activities in science
Friday 14 March; Oxfordshire

Free CPD and networking event for NACE members, exploring approaches to ensure practical activities in science are “minds-on” as well as “hands-on”.

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NACE Challenge Development Programme
NACE Challenge Award School Experiences
Visit a Challenge Award-accredited school to learn about the impact of the NACE Challenge Framework and effective approaches to develop and embed high-quality provision for the more able within a whole-school ethos of challenge for all.

Kingswood Academy, Hull
Monday 24 March | BOOK NOW

Carlton Junior and Infant School, Yorkshire
Thursday 1 May | BOOK NOW

Greenbank High School, Merseyside
Friday 28 MarchBOOK NOW

Julian's Primary School, London
Tuesday 20 MayBOOK NOW

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From our blog...

Using “thinking booklets” to embed challenge in the EYFS

If nobody could read, would we still need to write? What is time? If aliens lived on Earth, would they still be aliens? At Alfreton Nursery School no question is too “big”, even for the youngest learners. Deputy Head and More Able Lead Amanda Hubball explains how the school uses thinking booklets to support cognitive challenge, aspirational discourse, creative thinking and mutual respect.

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From Able to Remarkable
by Robert Massey

What makes remarkable students remarkable? Were they born this way, or did their 'remarkabilities' emerge during their schooling? Robert Massey argues that these remarkabilities are there, latent and dormant, in many more students than we might at first acknowledge. In From Able to Remarkable, Massey shares a rich variety of practical, cross-curricular strategies designed to help teachers unearth and nurture these capabilities. He presents practical methods to help teachers make questioning, self-review and greater student ownership a staple of day-to-day classroom interaction. The book also explores approaches to whole-school provision for high-attaining students and offers some robust stretch and challenge to educational leaders in considering what widespread excellence in education might look like.

From Able to Remarkable by Robert Massey

Log in to our member offers page for discounts on all purchases from Crown House Publishing, including From Able to Remarkable.

Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) is the UK’s learned society for geography and professional body for geographers. RGS works in many ways to advance geographical science – including providing resources for schools, CPD for teachers, student events, competitions and awards.

To learn more, visit the RGS website, and join NACE and RGS on 12th March for a free webinar exploring strategies and resources to help inspire the next generation of geographers.

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