Every Friday morning, advanced students in Grades 5–8 work on mathematics and science two to three grade levels ahead. GenWise mentors lead the sessions by video; a trained coordinator from your school runs the room.
Since 2016, GenWise has worked with advanced learners from more than 800 schools. Our work began with Duke University's Talent Identification Program in India and Educational Initiatives, the makers of ASSET.
A year-long programme that gives a school a dependable structure for its most advanced learners.
Fridays, 8:30–11:50
Grades 5–6 and 7–8
Advanced Mathematics and Science
From 10 children per grade band, per campus
GenWise mentor + school coordinator
Parents pay GenWise directly
At any module boundary, fees pro-rated
Every school has children working well beyond their grade level, but few have a sustained structure to keep them challenged. Ages 10–14 are the window to turn potential into durable ways of thinking. By Grade 9, boards and admissions leave much less room for this work.
Gifted Lab provides that structure while children remain in their own school and community. Singapore is moving the same way. After forty years of identifying gifted nine-year-olds and transferring them to a handful of special schools, its Ministry of Education is replacing that programme from 2027: children stay in their own school, and those who need more take a weekly two-hour advanced module with academic peers - explicitly not exam preparation, and with several chances to be identified rather than one. Gifted Lab applies the same principle, with the module inside your own school rather than at a centre.
Use the habits of mathematicians and scientists.
Explore beyond what has already been taught.
Stay with unfamiliar problems when they get hard.
Turn a good idea into a justified claim.
| Grade 5–6 room | Grade 7–8 room | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Mathematics | Mathematics |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Break | Break |
| 10:20 – 11:50 | Science | Science |
Gifted Lab is designed for children working in roughly the top 10% of their year group. Schools that already run a standardised assessment can identify them from those results: the Ei-ASSET from Educational Initiatives, the NWEA MAP tests, or something comparable. Where a school uses none of these, school or teacher recommendation is enough, and GenWise will assess candidates online at no cost to the school.
The school creates the space and continuity. GenWise brings the mentors, programme and support.
Students defended the 18th-century caloric theory of heat, then hunted for the experiment that breaks it. By the end they could say not just that caloric theory is wrong, but what would have had to be true for it to be right. Science as evidence-based argument, not memorisation.
Students folded, cut and repaired paper models. Only after an object worked did the mathematics behind it get named. A difficult cutting challenge became a problem about symmetry.
"I wasn't expecting it to be so mathematics related… happily surprised."
We use short formative checks, open investigations and children's own work. Reports focus on the quality of reasoning, explanation and persistence, not marks.
Children experience being wrong among equals, choosing the hard problem and working through frustration. That reveals strengths and needs a regular classroom may not show.
"The mentality goes from 'I have to follow great people' to 'I have to question great people, try, find alternatives, find a more efficient way.'"– Adithya, Grade 8, Sri Kumarans, Bengaluru
"The encouragement to ask questions and explore beyond the textbook has ignited a genuine passion for learning in my twins."– Krishnan and Shyama, parents of two Gifted Lab students
Full mentor profiles and module-by-module learning are on the Gifted Lab page. Parents pay GenWise directly; the school handles no fees. Need-based scholarships are available.
We schedule around the school's examinations and tests. The coordinator also watches each child's progress in regular subjects; if a child begins to slip, GenWise and the school agree on the right way forward.
Schools already recognise that different learners need different provision. Gifted Lab extends that principle to children working well ahead, while keeping them in their own school. Participants also share their learning through activities for younger classes and an annual student-led Mathematics and Science day.
Part-time provision keeps a child's place in their regular classroom while giving them one morning among academic peers. A 2022 study of 292 Grade 5–6 students compared exactly these three situations - a weekly mathematics pull-out programme, a full-time separate gifted programme, and no gifted provision at all. Children in the weekly pull-out reported more confidence in their mathematics ability than those with no provision, and less perfectionism and loneliness than those in full-time separate classes (Cash & Lin, Gifted Child Quarterly, 2022). One study is not the whole literature, but it examines the choice a school actually faces.
Those children can join the after-school online programme, which runs on Friday evenings and at weekends. The school band can move on campus at the start of any later module once it reaches ten.
We begin with a thirty-minute call. If the model fits, we agree the modules, identify candidates, communicate with parents, train the coordinator and check the room. The first module can usually begin within five to six weeks - at whichever module boundary falls next, which need not be the start of the academic year.
Thirty minutes is enough to understand the model and explore whether it fits your students.
Arrange a 30-minute callSiddharth Bharath · siddharth@genwise.in