What is the Summit Programme?
The Massey High School Summit Programme for Gifted and Talented Education seeks to identify ability across a range of areas, including academic and artistic. We understand that gifts and talents are manifested in a variety of ways, and our summit programme aims to nurture gifted and talented students across the areas of English, Maths, Science, and the Arts.
Once accepted into the programme, students are offered a range of approaches to broaden, enrich, and extend their learning. These approaches can include extension tasks, booster homework, extra and co-curricular groups, international competitions, scholarship courses, and much more.
Special Programming Offered:
- Advanced Art and Music classes
- Extension classes in English and Maths
- Pathways and courses to support New Zealand Scholarship Awards.
- Leadership Development option class (separate application required: apply here)
- Sports Performance and Development Programme
Aims:
- Promote personal excellence
- Provide extension and enrichment in designated areas of giftedness and talent
- Provide students with extra and co-curricular opportunities for personal and academic growth
- Provide a clear academic pathway through school and into further study
Students should be able to demonstrate:
- A strong commitment to personal excellence
- A school record of high achievement and effort
- Entry results in the top 5%
- Commitment to extra or co-curricular groups or activities
Common Characteristics of Gifted and Talented students:
- An ability to comprehend material well in advance of their chronological age
- A surprising emotional depth at a young age
- A strong sense of curiosity
- Enthusiasm for unique interests or topics
- A quirky, mature sense of humour
- An ability to process new information quickly
- Demonstrate an awareness of global issues
- An advanced vocabulary
- Read a great deal and at an advanced level
- Excel at visual or performing arts
- Be extremely creative
- May be stubborn
- May become bored with routine tasks
- May challenge authority
Please note that for 2027 there will be no separate Summit application form needed. Decisions will be made using data from primary schools and the Massey High School entrance test.
For further information, please contact: [email protected]
Helpful websites:
https://www2.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/understanding-secondary-quals/nz-scholarship/