High potential and gifted education

In our classroom

In our classrooms, we promote a sense of belonging, encouragement and support, to promote students in taking thoughtful and productive risks. Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners (HPGE). This expertise is seamlessly integrated into our daily learning experiences, ensuring every child is challenged, supported and inspired to reach their full potential.

• Our practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which highlights the importance of supporting giftedness across four essential domains:

  • Creative Domain: Supporting students to develop original ideas and express themselves through creative thinking, problem-solving, and artistic pursuits.
  • Intellectual (Cognitive) Domain: Offering challenging learning experiences that nurture advanced thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual development.
  • Physical Domain: Encouraging physical growth and wellbeing through activities that improve coordination, health, and physical skills.
  • Social-Emotional Domain: Promoting emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social interactions to support the wellbeing of gifted learners.

Our classrooms offer:

• Differentiated learning tasks

Teachers tailor learning to each student’s needs, adjusting pace, complexity and encouraging higher-order thinking, ensuring students are challenged appropriately, fostering deeper understanding, critical analysis and creativity.

• Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.

Teachers guide students step-by-step, modelling strategies and encouraging reflection. This focused approach equips learners to analyse information, make informed decisions and confidently tackle challenges across all subjects, preparing them for future success

• Tasks that promote choice, authenticity and critical and creative thinking,​ including cross-curricular projects.

Teachers create engaging tasks that offer students choices and real-world relevance. Through hands-on, cross-curricular projects, students develop critical and creative thinking skills, explore connections between subjects and express their ideas confidently, fostering curiosity and a love for learning in a supportive environment.

• Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility and control​.

Students experience fun, developmentally appropriate activities that enhance motor skills, balance and movement precision. They receive clear instructions, regular practice and personalised feedback to support each students’ physical growth, confidence and ability to participate actively in various physical tasks and games.

• Student Leadership and Voice

Students take lead roles in projects, discussions and school initiatives tied to their interests, and participate in setting goals and self-assessing, fostering ownership, motivation and leadership skills.

Across our school

School Level

Our school recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths both inside and outside the classroom. We also provide adjustments to ensure high potential and gifted students with disability can participate in learning experiences on the same basis as students without disability.

• Our school offers a range of whole-school programs that support student growth. In addition, our students have the opportunity to travel to different events outside the school, including participating in performing arts showcases such as dance and choir, as well as debating, chess competitions and a plethora of academic and sporting events.

Our School offers a range of opportunities across intellectual, creative, social, and physical domains including:

• • Debating and Public Speaking
  • STEM
  • Chess
  • Choir and Dance Group
  • Performing Arts Showcases
  • Sporting Schools (Australian Sports Commission)
  • Interest Groups including music, art/craft and gardening.
  • Combined Small School Competitions including swimming, cross country, athletics and an Eisteddfod
  • Peer Mentoring
  • Student Leadership (SRC)
  • Wellbeing Programs

Across NSW

Across NSW

Our students actively participate in a wide range of state wide programs to extend and enrich student potential.

We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents. These include:

• • The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
  • The Premier’s Reading Challenge challenges each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.
  • The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
  • Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
  • The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
  • NSW Western Region Dance Festival supports students engagement in dance and provides an opportunity for them to perform in public.
  • M3 mathematics tournament promotes an interest in problem solving and mathematics in a team based competition across a wide number of schools in the region.
  • 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.