High Potential Gifted Education
Some students learn faster and more easily than others. These students may show natural abilities in creative, intellectual, physical, and/or social-emotional domains.
At our school, we recognise and nurture these strengths early. We support high potential students with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.
- At our school, every learner’s potential is our priority.
- Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.
- Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be.
- We are committed to developing high potential across 4 domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
- We challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day.
- Our school is a place of diversity and opportunity, where every learner belongs.
- We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent.
- Our school offers a diverse range of opportunities across the 4 domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
- Our offerings engage and challenge every student, including a strong focus on talent development for high potential and gifted learners.
- High potential and gifted education is delivered in-class, across the whole school and department wide.
- Our school has a variety of supports available for students through a range of high potential and gifted opportunities.
Examples of HPGE Offerings at our School
Classroom Level
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
School Level
- Debating teams
- Mock Trial - The Law Society of NSW
- STEM Week
- Academic competitions
- Creative and Performing Arts Showcases
- Dance, Drama and Music ensembles
- School Spectacular Participation
- Visual Arts showcases and competitions
- Sport squads
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
System Level
- The Schools Spectacular - an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
- Participation in The Art's Units Junior and Senior Dance Ensembles - promotes character exploration, storytelling and expressive freedom for our Stage 4 and 5 high potential and gifted Dance students.
- Participation in music ensembles (2025 Symphony Orchestra - hones our students’ musical skills, discipline and ensemble awareness.
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge - helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.