ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to look at how activities outside the classroom, including fieldwork and links with organisations such as universities and businesses, can stimulate interest and provide challenge for the most able, as well as enhancing learning for all pupils. Away from the classroom it is often easier for teachers to focus on the needs of the more able, either as part of what the whole class is doing, or by developing specific activities for the more able and allowing them to work in pairs or in a small group. It is worth looking again at the ‘Who does extension?’ diagram in Chapter 4, which suggests different ways in which teachers might select pupils to do extension work, for example by choosing a targeted group, or by choosing those who finish tasks early, or simply by giving extension work to those pupils who wish to do it.
