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. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.
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 practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which highlights the importance of supporting high potential and gifted education across four essential domains:
- Creative Domain: Supporting students to develop original ideas and express themselves through creative thinking, problem-solving, and artistic pursuits.
- Intellectual (Cognitive) Domain: Offering challenging learning experiences that nurture advanced thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual development.
- Physical Domain: Encouraging physical growth and wellbeing through activities that improve coordination, health, and physical skills.
- Social-Emotional Domain: Promoting emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social interactions to support the wellbeing of gifted learners.
Our practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which highlights the importance of supporting high potential and gifted education across four essential domains:
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 regional and 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.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- 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.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Debating
- Public speaking
- Student leadership opportunities
- Kindergarten Buddy Program
- Wellbeing programs
- STEM initiatives
- Local show entries
- Sports Programs provided by qualified coaches
- Sustainability
- Biennial production
- Robotics
- Premier's Reading Challenge and Premier's Spelling Challenge
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Premier's Spelling Challenge.
- ICAS Competitions
- Public Speaking opportunities, including three students leading the local ANZAC Day Service.
- Operation Art and other local art projects, including Winter Blues Guitars and Echuca Show.
- Dance Group opportunities, including PULSE Deniliquin that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
- Choir performing at local events, including Christmas Carols, Anzac Day and Remembrance Day .
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at district, regional and state levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
Academic Opportunities
Our school provides our students with many additional academic opportunities, including taking part in the Premier's Debating Challenge, Premier's Spelling Bee, Public Speaking, ICAS Competitions, Premier's Reading Challenge
Sporting Opportunities
Our school offers students a wide range of sporting opportunities. We employ local coaches to lead weekly sessions in sports including golf, soccer, tennis, basketball, athletics, swimming, and gymnastics.
Additional coaching is also available during lunchtime for athletics and cross country, helping students improve their fitness and technique.
Students participate in the PSSA District Trials, with many qualifying to compete at the Riverina regional level, and some even advancing to state-level competitions.
Creative Arts Opportunities
All of our students are provided with weekly music lessons. Students also have the opportunity to take part in choir and the Deniliquin PULSE Dance event.
Students are also provided with additional art project opportunties. Each class has one piece of art chosen for Operation Art, and every child had a piece of their artwork selected to enter into the Echuca Show.
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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