The most able can be challenged in a variety of ways and at a number of levels, from the extension question for the individual child to the extended enquiry for the most able class. In a Leading Edge History project, Guy Woolnough and his colleagues took the concept of challenge further, in taking history outside the classroom. The project challenges the most able on a number of levels. Pupils’ expectations are raised by working with peers from different schools; external agencies are brought in to ensure that challenge moves outside the educational institution and that pupils have to think more broadly about the subject matter. Pupils are forced to apply skills they may have learnt in the history classroom such as research, questioning and debate to a much broader project and therefore come to an enhanced understanding of the applicability of the subject. The project may have moved away from traditional approaches to history teaching, but the pupils’ evaluations show that this has only resulted in an increased desire to learn more about the subject.