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 that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Advanced learning pathways, including accelerated or compacted content.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Streamed PDHPE classes for stage five.
- Extension mathematics and english classes for stage six.
- Access to AURORA virtual classroom.
- 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.
- Debating.
- Senior study support for students every morning.
- Academic competitions.
- Critical thinking workshops.
- Empowering Wade Women Group.
- Music ensembles.
- Visual arts and drama showcases.
- Creative writing groups.
- Extra-curricular activities.
- House competitions.
- Creative arts show.
- Peer mentoring.
- Student leadership (SRC).
- Wellbeing hub to support the social/emotional .development and wellbeing of students.
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- Staff mentoring of students available.
- The Schools Spectacular is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
- Participation in music ensembles (e.g. Griffith combined school band) hones our students’ musical skills, discipline and ensemble awareness.
- Combined High School Sport events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
- Yirra Miaya dancers in school spectacular.
- Participation in statewide competitions such as ICAS.
- Burn Bright leadership camp.
- eSport "The fused Cup".
- DOVE student leadership.
Regional HPGE
Regional, rural and remote schools offer unique learning environments that support high potential and gifted education for students. The messages below can be used to highlight the strengths of regional, rural and remote schools and their HPGE offerings.
- Being from a regional area gives our school the chance to be innovative in our approach to high potential and gifted learners. For example: varied age class groupings, virtual classrooms, school network VET opportunities.
- Our school partners with other regional schools to deliver teaching and learning experiences and opportunities for all students to develop their potential in all domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
- We work with other regional schools to share our expertise and classroom resources for the benefit of all students.
- Our students have the opportunity to travel to different sporting events across NSW.
- Our school partners with community organisations to provide opportunities for student voice and student advocacy.
- We connect our students to industry experts and positive role models in areas of interest to them.
- We use technology to provide different ways of learning that help students develop their talent, regardless of distance, location or background.
- We use the expertise of parents and carers and community to ensure all students have opportunities to develop their potential.
- We ensure our teachers have time to engage in professional learning to build their experience and ensure they can assess and identify talent in the classroom and school setting.
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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