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, 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. We use objective, valid and reliable measures to assess and identify high potential and gifted students’ learning needs.

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.

In our classroom

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

We offer evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs.
We offer differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
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 recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom:

Chess and art clubs
STEM and coding clubs
School choir and music lessons
Student leadership roles through student representative council leadership (SRC)
Sports teams

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of programs to extend their potential:

Premier’s Spelling Bee, Sporting Challenge and Debating competitions
Creative and performing arts opportunities: Far North Coast Creative Arts Camp, Compass Music Festival, Festival of Choral Music.
PSSA sport competitions – local, regional, state: Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics, Netball, Soccer, Rugby and more.
Statewide/NSW Department of Education level support is available for our high potential and gifted students.