LEAP
Grenada School District’s gifted program, LEAP (Learning, Enrichment and Progress), challenges students with advanced curriculum beyond their usual class work.
Students may be recommended for gifted testing either by parents or classroom teachers. LEAP classes meet each day during Activity time.
The LEAP curriculum at GES 3-5 is diverse and varied. Students will experience the same modules in either Mrs. McPhail's or Mrs. Waugh's classroom. In addition to the 2025-2026 curriculum, there are unique projects for each grade:
- Third graders will get to experience a "Living Wax Museum"
- Fourth graders will participate in the science fair
- Fifth graders will visit a career fair
The powerful curriculum exposes gifted students to new topics, ideas, and information that helps develop and expand their intelligence. At the beginning of the year students will dive into the human genome to discover various traits and how organisms transmit genes from one generation to the next. Their next module explores the root cause a mysterious infection as they learn about germs and the spread of pathogens. The third module showcases the inputs and outputs of the human body's own computer network--the brain and central nervous system. The fourth and final module challenges their critical thinking skills by uncovering the way energy moves from one system to another. In the year's capstone project they create a prototype that solves a real world problem to make Grenada's Main Street more energy efficient.
