High potential and gifted education
Some students learn faster and more easily than others. These students may shine in creativity, thinking, leadership or sport. These students may show natural abilities in creative, intellectual, physical, and/or social-emotional domains.
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 ensure every student has the opportunity to thrive at our school.
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.
Supporting your child at school
Working with the school helps create a positive learning environment which helps your child achieve their potential. Our students can participate in a wide range of 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.
At Earlwood Public School, HPGE is embedded in everyday practice. Many students demonstrate high potential, and we actively nurture this potential to ensure every student has the opportunity to succeed and flourish.
- 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.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- 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.
Every high potential and gifted student is unique and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities designed to address their individual needs.
- Debating
- Robert Hardy public speaking competition
- Primary School State Debating Championships
- Coding club
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- Number crunches
- Puzzle club
- Music ensembles
- Digitral visual arts clubs
- Creative writing groups
- PSSA sports teams and competition
- Junior and Senior dance troupe
- Peer mentoring
- Student leadership eg SRC, environmental (green) team, sport house leaders, library monitors and Year 6 leadership team.
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- APSMO Maths Olympiad
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Premier’s Multicultural Public Speaking
- Metropolitan South and Metropolitan South and West Public Speaking Competition
- Participation in music ensembles eg community of schools for band.
- 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 PSSA and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
- Premier’s Reading Challenge
- Create performing arts showcase - choir, band, dance and visual arts.
- Leadership grows through SRC, mentoring and peer coaching, Green team, Year 6 student leadership and primary dream and lead conference for our leaders of tomorrow.
- Support for high potential and gifted students is available statewide through the NSW Department of Education. We assist with entries, preparation, and reflection to ensure that every experience contributes to ongoing learning.
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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