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

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. We are committed to developing our students potential across 4 domains: 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.

In our classroom

Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.

We offer differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
We provide strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
We offer an enrichment class (by application) in stage 4 (years 7 and 8).
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Across our school

Our school offers a range of whole-school programs that support student growth.

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 mentoring programs.
Our school identifies and supports students with high potential through targeted enrichment, extension and extra-curricular opportunities such as debating, public speaking competitions and STEM clubs.
Student talent is celebrated and extended through school performance groups, visual arts showcases, music ensembles and creative writing groups.
Our students can take part in sports training squads, coaching sessions, house competitions and differentiated Physical Education programs.

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of programs to expand their potential.

The Representative School Sport Pathway and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.