Pupil Support

Inclusive Education (Passend Onderwijs)

The European School The Hague provides whole school basic support and can offer additional learning and social/emotional support to pupils to further their development. Within the framework of the Passend Onderwijs (Inclusive Education), ESH is committed to providing the best possible learning environment by having skilled teachers and a team of dedicated specialists. To establish this, ESH works closely together with SPPOH and Kracht. Support interventions are always context based. Detailed explanations of our support structure can be found in the latest Primary School Guide.

If you would like to know what support ESH can provide for your child's needs, don't hesitate to contact the Support Team Leader.

Gifted and Talented

At ESH Primary, we are committed to providing high-quality education tailored to the needs of all our pupils. Here, we outline the measures our school takes to identify and support pupils with characteristics of giftedness, helping them reach their full potential.

Two ESH Primary Gifted and Talented programmes adopt an inclusive approach, offering enriching and challenging opportunities for all learners. We aim to establish a strong learning dialogue between teachers, pupils, and parents. This holistic approach encourages creative, higher-order thinking skills, essential for becoming productive citizens in our European society.

What does Gifted and Talented mean at ESH primary?

Being identified as Gifted and Talented at ESH Primary means that a pupil demonstrates outstanding academic abilities, talents, and/or the potential for exceptional skills that are developmentally advanced and require enhanced provisions to meet their educational needs. These pupils may excel in areas such as intellectual, academic, creative, artistic, or leadership capacities.

At ESH Primary, we strive to create an environment where identification as Gifted and Talented is the starting point for nurturing potential and developing talents. It is essential to ensure that this process is carried forward into (ESH) Secondary school, where it is further supported with professional rigor to foster a harmonious and continuous learning pathway.

Signaling

Educational Offer

An appropriate educational offer for students with characteristics of giftedness consists of compacting and enrichment.

Compacting involves skipping unnecessary instruction and work. The resulting space in the curriculum is used for enrichment. Enrichment can consist of deepening and broadening. Deepening connects to the basic material and the regular curriculum. It is exploring and investigating another element of the subject matter. This is different from having students work ahead. Broadening is an extension of the regular curriculum.

An appropriate enrichment offer is one that lies in the zone of near development, is meaningful and lies within the student's area of interest.

Appropriate enrichment offerings can take place both inside and outside the group.

Inside the Group

In principle, an enrichment offer takes place within the group. Here, the basic work is compacted and the enrichment work takes its place. At classroom moments, the teacher takes these students into account by asking higher-order questions.

For the groups P1-P5, we have the Challenge program. The Challenge program consists of several challenges linked to DOW topics. These challenges are linked to 5 subjects: Math, Science, L1, L2 and Art. Posters were created for this purpose with ideas that would stimulate the pupils to come up with a project. The challenge program is for the more able pupils (P1-P5). After they’ve finished their compacted work, they can work on the challenge program.

If there are other pupils who would like to be challenged, they can also join.

Outside the Group

Some children with characteristics of giftedness receive guidance outside the group once a week in addition to the enrichment offerings in the group. These are pupils who can do most things 'naturally' and effortlessly. This guidance outside the group also offers these pupils the opportunity to meet like-minded people.

For the groups P3-P5, we have the ESH Plus Program.

Through this program pupils will work on projects once a week for one hour (Tuesday or Thursday from 13:30 - 14:30) using the materials and approach of the ‘Pittige plus torens’.

Accelerate

Team Leader Support, Section Quality, Specialists

Ingeborg Hendriks

i.hendriks@eshthehague.nl