A SCHEME is being launched tomorrow to help bright children on Teesside.
Clever young scholars from three Middlesbrough schools - Acklam Grange, King's Manor and Ormesby - will meet up with their counterparts from Grangefield School, in Stockton, Stokesley School, in North Yorkshire, and Yarm School.
The partnership project is being co-ordinated from Yarm School
Paul Chapman, director of studies at Yarm School, said: "The project is designed to help develop pupils who have been identified by their schools as being academically gifted.
"It will expose them to a range of educational opportunities that they otherwise would not enjoy and to raise their aspirations.''
He says the partnership, which is funded by the Department for Education and Skills, will cross local education authority boundaries.
The inaugural event is being held at Yarm School, where the youngsters will be introduced to one another.
They will also begin their learning with some psychology tests.
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