Inspire – 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.
HPGE Hub
At the NSW Department of Education, we recognise the importance of nurturing the unique potential of every student.
We are excited to offer HPGE days to support students with high potential and giftedness at no cost to families.
By connecting like-minded learners in a positive environment we encourage them to share ideas, develop their strengths and build connections.
With the guidance of passionate teachers, students will experience activities that challenge, inspire and encourage them to achieve their best.
This project celebrates the unique abilities of every participant and helps them grow both academically and personally.
We aim to create a community where gifted and talented students feel understood, motivated and empowered
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?
Inspire – 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.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critial thinking and problem solving-strategies.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Structured peer collaboration and refleciton.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Debating
- Sport programs including cricket and soccer
- Music ensembles
- Visual arts showcases
- House competitions
- Peer mentoring
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- The Premier's Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Pulse Alive is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
- Participation in music ensembles hones our students' musical skills, discipline and ensemble awareness.
- PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at school, zone, district, regional and state level, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
HPGE Across the Four Domains of Potential
At St Peters Public School, we are committed to supporting every student to achieve their educational potential. By providing quality extra-curricular opportunities across the four domains of potential—creative, intellectual, physical, and social–emotional— students can develop their talents and reach their fullest potential.
Creative
- School Band: Students learn to play an instrument of their choice during weekly before school sessions. The band performs several times throughout the school year.
- Musicale Showcase (solo, duet and group performances): An annual performance night in the school hall for an audience of families.
- Pulse Alive Dance Group: A group who rehearse a dance routine during lunch time to perform at Sydney Olympic Park.
- Recorder Group: Students rehearse during lunch time to prepare for the annual Festival of Instrumental Music performance at the Sydney Opera House.
- St Peters Got Talent: An annual performance at the end of the school year for an audience of students and families.
Intellectual
- Years 3 to 6 Differentiated Problem Solving Groups: All students from Years 3-6 have a weekly opportunity to work with a teacher and a small group of their peers to solve mathematical problems targeted specifically at their current level of ability.
- Stage 3 Debating: A team of students attend lunch time sessions to learn debating skills and prepare for debates against other schools. The team competes in the Premier’s Debating Challenge.
- Special Interest Project opportunities
Physical
- PSSA (Jonior and Senior Soccer and OzTag teams): During the Winter PSSA season a senior and junior team for each sport compete against other schools within the area.
- Try outs for district teams in a range of sports
- Zone, Regional and State carnivals in swimming, cross-country and athletics.
Social-Emotional
- Library Monitors: Students help to keep the library organised and support weekly pre-school visits.
- SRC: Students attend lunch time meetings, and promote events at assemblies and by displaying posters around the school.
- Public Speaking: Students present a speech to their class and finalists present in the hall in front of 3-6.
- Buddies Program: Year 5 students write a letter to apply to be a Kindergarten buddy when in year 6.
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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