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.
Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students:
- We identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.
- Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
- Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners embedding opportunities for choice, higher order thinking, abstraction and authenticity into learning across the curriculum.
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We design and deliver differentiated programs in English and mathematics.
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Some of our offerings include but are not limited to:
- Public speaking/speeches programs
- PBL projects/inquiry based learning
- SMART goals
- Personalised learning plans
- Parliament house virtual excursions
- Film making with Year 5/6
- Friendology - wellbeing
Our school recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom:
- All our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles through student representative council leadership and peer support programs.
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Student talent is celebrated and extended through school musicals, drama groups, visual arts showcases and music ensembles.
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Some of our offerings include but are not limited to:
- Robotics
- Music program
- Visual Arts program
- Enrichment days for STEM
- Project based learning
- NAIDOC day celebrations
- Collaboration days with Valley of Small Schools
- Year 5/6 Canberra excursion
- LVLC leadership day in Brisbane
- Gala days / sports days
- Swimming school
- Surf school
- Year 5/6 snow trip
- School Representative Council - leadership
- Camp Goodenough - Year 6 team building
- Japanese exchange group
Our students participate in a wide range of programs to extend their potential. We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents:
- ICAS academic competitions
- Far North Coast Creative Arts Camp
- PSSA sport competitions – local, regional, state: Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics, Tennis, Netball, Soccer, Rugby
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.
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