Unlocking Students' Potential with Our Unique High Abilities Programme


At San Patricio, we understand that some students, due to exceptional intelligence and talent, require bespoke support to unlock their true potential and reach top results. Our commitment to educational excellence and personalised attention has led us to develop a unique Gifted and Talented programme to help these highly talented learners perform to their abilities across our three campuses. This exceptional programme has been recognised and approved by the Spanish Ministry of Education for its educational excellence and innovation.

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Benefits of the High Abilities Programme


Gifted students in our school benefit from enrichment and advanced training with specialist professionals. This exclusive programme aims to accompany learners with high abilities in their personal, academic, and emotional growth, ensuring they develop as well-prepared, responsible, and happy individuals, with the skills to reach their full potential and achieve their most ambitious goals in the future.

In addition to enhancing their overall results, the Gifted & Talented programme successfully equips learners with adaptative skills and tolerance for frustration, effective communication, time management, teamwork, creativity, critical thinking, and emotional management.

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Identifying Our High Ability Students


If your child constantly seeks new challenges, complains of feeling bored in the classroom, feels that the educational system is not meeting their developmental needs, or struggles to relate to peers and manage emotions while achieving extraordinary results, they may have advanced abilities and this programme is perfect to take their potential to the next level. Through this programme, we can detect early indicators of high ability in individual pupils and implement methodologies for learning and successful coexistence among students of different ability levels within a class. 

Identifying a child with superior intellectual abilities is crucial to providing the personalised support they need as early as possible. Therefore, from the moment the student enters school at any of our campuses, and throughout their education, our expert Guidance Department, in collaboration with the teaching staff and the student’s family, carefully monitors each child’s well-being and development. A diagnostic and identification test is then applied for high intellectual capabilities to confirm if a student qualifies. If they do, they will be included in our programme. 

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Motivating Students with High Abilities


We understand that some gifted children are not motivated solely by external rewards such as good grades or praise. Their motivation is naturally intrinsic, stemming from their internal desire to excel. Therefore, it is essential to provide them with intellectual challenges from an early age to keep this intrinsic motivation alive. We must also help them understand that their efforts have a purpose to prevent them from disengaging from learning. 

To keep them motivated and ensure success in their academic performance, they have access to enriching experiences, such as participating in various contests and competitions covering challenging STEM, mathematical, linguistic, and creative areas. In addition to increasing gifted children’s motivation to achieve their maximum potential at all levels, this programme aims to enhance personal growth through the development of emotional intelligence and social skills, as well as by providing tailored support to families of gifted learners. 

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Programme Outline*


Children with high abilities are generally very curious and eager to explore and learn. We aim to encourage their ability to make the most of their knowledge and skills. San Patricio School supports them to experience different points of view, develop skills to see matters from different perspectives and learn to think creatively to problem-solve.  

Students within this programme benefit from the following:

  • Assessments
  • Enrichment workshops
  • Flexible year groups and methodologies
  • Curricular extensions within the class
  • Emotional intelligence and social skills programme
  • Access to specialist professionals (Experts in High Abilities, Psychologists and Psychopedagogists)
  • Continuous teacher training to accompany your child
  • Support for families

During their school hours, our students attend Research Workshops, where they explore topics related to their specific course content. These are tailored to their individual interests, or to specific areas such as linguistics and mathematics designed for those with great motivation and advanced knowledge. In the weekly Enrichment Workshops in our TEAC classroom, they develop divergent thinking and creativity.

*This educational response is complementary to and not a substitute for those established by law, such as curricular adaptations for expansion and/or enrichment in each syllabus area.

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High Abilities Enrichment Workshops


At CSP Madrid, we work with a professional in High Abilities and Enrichment Workshops (TEAC). Gifted pupils meet to work on a wide range of subjects using different methodologies to those taught in the normal classroom, providing unique experiences, materials and resources so that the children can develop and express their full intellectual potential.

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Bespoke Socio-Emotional Development


There is no single pattern of behaviour among highly gifted pupils regarding emotional and social development. In some cases, they tend to work more individually than collaboratively, in others, they find it hard to relate to peers or control their emotions. Therefore, to support gifted students with their personal and social-emotional development, a series of activities are introduced in the Enrichment Programme to improve and stimulate verbal and non-verbal communication skills and their collaboration and teamwork abilities. 

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Enhancing Students’ Natural Talents & Abilities


With this programme, CSP Madrid aims to unlock gifted students’ potential in:

  • Fluency (ease to generate a high number of ideas).
  • Originality (ability to produce novel, unconventional responses).
  • Flexibility (ability to produce different ideas to switch from one thinking approach to another and to use different problem-solving strategies).
  • Elaboration (ability to develop, complete or embellish a response).

In other words, creativity is stimulated as a further component of intelligence, working alongside multiple concepts of intelligence, such as linguistic or verbal, logical-mathematical and spatial.

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What Happens When Gifted Students Are Not Properly Stimulated or Supported?


Our school understands that gifted children often encounter emotional struggles that impact their academic performance and well-being. One of these challenges is a lack of motivation due to insufficient intellectual stimulation in class. As a result, their commitment to excellence, regardless of their exceptional abilities, takes a toll, hindering the development of necessary habits to succeed in more challenging final exams later on.

Additionally, these children are not immune to depression. Their emotional struggles at school, when not properly addressed, can also increase the risk of depression and existential crisis. This is why our programme focuses on the importance of addressing both their academic and emotional needs.

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Choosing the right school to cultivate your child’s talents and skills is vital for their successful learning outcomes. Request a personalised meeting at our school to learn more about the unique Gifted & Talented programme.