High potential and gifted education
Our school is committed to nurturing the talents and abilities of high potential and gifted students. We recognise that every learner is unique and strive to provide tailored educational experiences that challenge, inspire, and support students to reach their full potential.
The High potential and gifted education (HPGE) program offers:
- Differentiated Learning: Curriculum adjustments and enrichment activities designed to engage students in complex and creative thinking.
- Individualised Support: Opportunities for students to work on independent projects, pursue areas of interest, and develop advanced skills with guidance from specialist teachers.
- Collaborative Opportunities: Participation in group challenges, competitions, and workshops that foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and leadership.
- Ongoing Assessment: Regular identification and monitoring to ensure students receive appropriate support and extension based on their evolving strengths.
Our goal is to create a learning environment where gifted and high potential students feel valued, motivated, and empowered to excel academically and personally. We encourage families to engage with us to support their child’s growth and celebrate their achievements.
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.
- Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be.
- We are committed to developing high potential across 4 domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
- We challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day.
- Our school is a place of diversity and opportunity, where every learner belongs.
- We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent.
- Our school offers a diverse range of opportunities across the 4 domains of potential: 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.
- High potential and gifted education is delivered in-class, across the whole school and department wide.
- Our school has a variety of supports available for students through a range of high potential and gifted opportunities.
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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