High potential and gifted education
Some students learn faster and more easily than others. These students may shine in creativity, thinking, leadership or sport.
At our school, we recognise and nurture these strengths early. We support advanced learners with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.
Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?
Recognising potential and developing talent
Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be.
Tailored lessons
Each student has different abilities. Teachers respond to each student’s ability by providing extra challenges and extension activities to keep learning exciting and engaging.
Rich opportunities and activities
Students can take part in opportunities to develop their talent in the arts, sport, leadership and more.
Opening doors to wider experiences
Our students can participate in a wide range of state-wide opportunities that aim to extend and enrich student potential.
What is high potential and gifted education?
High potential and gifted education (HPGE) is how our school supports students with advanced learning needs.
We do this through:
- effective teaching strategies like enrichment, extension and acceleration
- tailored support during lessons that stretch, challenge and inspire
- access to a wide range of opportunities both within and beyond our school.
Our high potential and gifted education opportunities
Our students engage with HPGE education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
In our classroom
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Extending prompts that stretch student thinking and learning
- Rigorous higher order questioning that extends student thinking to justify, create and apply learning
- Robust formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies - mathematics Polya's Problem Solving Process
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting and differentiated Success Criteria to promote higher order thinking and success
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
Across our school
- Year 2-6 Enrichment Groups for Spelling, Writing and Mathematics
- Visual arts groups and art competition entries
- Debating teams
- Academic competitions
- Bi-Annual School musicals
- Visual arts and drama showcases - MADD
- Sport squads and Interschool Sport in Term 3 each year
- Student leadership - student parliament and student leaders
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
Across NSW
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The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
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The Schools Starstruck is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW Hunter Region public schools.
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The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
Student opportunities and activities
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Learning
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