Futura

The Futura program seeks to enhance and to develop the intellect of 4th and 5th grade students who have been formally identified in need of gifted services. Futura is a pull out program where identified students receive enrichment and challenged one day a week in a center at another school. Students are immersed in lessons that correlate the themes structures and systems to the Virginia Standards of Learning Objectives for the core content areas.

Futura offers a stimulating environment focusing on higher-level thinking skills and activities including:

• Problem solving
• Critical thinking
• Creative thinking
• Evaluative thinking