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.
- Differentiated tasks tailored to various learning needs, adjusting pace, complexity, and fostering higher-order thinking.
- Ongoing formative assessment to track progress and inform teaching.
- Clear, explicit instruction in critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Opportunities for inquiry, abstraction, and deeper curriculum engagement.
- Activities that encourage choice, authenticity, and both critical and creative thinking, including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible groupings to support collaborative tasks.
- Differentiated movement activities and skill development in PDHPE.
- Focused learning goals targeting coordination, agility, and control.
- Chances to lead in physical demonstrations or team strategy sessions.
- Supportive environments fostering exploration, self-assessment, and personal growth.
- Feedback grounded in student strengths, paired with goal setting.
- Opportunities for students to take on leadership roles within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflective practices.
- Safe and encouraging learning spaces that promote confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Debating programs to develop critical thinking and public speaking skills.
- Dance activities to encourage creativity and physical expression.
- Operation Art participation to showcase student talents in Visual Arts.
- Peer mentoring through Playground Pals, fostering supportive student relationships.
- Student leadership opportunities via SRC, School Leaders, and Junior and Senior Sports Captains.
- Social Emotional Learning challenges that promote self-awareness and resilience.
- Active involvement in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- Engagement in the Crossroads Zone PSSA, a sports organisation designed as a pathway for High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) students in physical domains, providing opportunities to demonstrate skills and compete with peers across the zone.
- Participation in the Maths Olympiad to enhance problem-solving and mathematical reasoning.
- Involvement in Tournament of the Minds, promoting creative and collaborative problem-solving.
- Creation and participation in the EPS Podcast, providing a platform for student voice and communication skills.
- Public Speaking Competition.
- Premier's Debating Challenge.
- Enrichment Opportunities offered via Glendale Technology High School.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and Crossroads 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.
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