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.
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.
At Spring Farm Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.
- Apply explicit teaching practices that clearly demonstrate, explain, and break down complex ideas for all students.
- Integrate clear learning intentions and success criteria to guide students toward understanding and achievement.
- Design differentiated learning tasks to meet the needs of all learners.
- Use formative assessment and timely feedback to identify learner needs and adjust instruction as required.
- Create opportunities for students to collaborate—either with peers of similar abilities or in mixed-ability groups—to support both academic and social–emotional development.
- Create a supportive learning environment where students feel safe, valued, and encouraged to take risks and engage in their learning.
- Provide opportunities for students to develop leadership skills by taking on roles and responsibilities within the classroom.
At Spring Farm Public School, we offer a wide range of opportunities to support and enrich our High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) students both within the school and the wider community. Our programs are designed to nurture talents across multiple domains, providing pathways for students to excel and engage beyond the classroom. These include:
- Debating
- Spelling Bee
- Public Speaking
- Challenge Days
- Coding Club
- Dance
- Choir
- Band
- Student leadership opportunities
- PSSA sport
- Cultural activities
- Excursions and incursions
- Lunchtime clubs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives
At Spring Farm Public School, 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.
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- 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.
- Tournament of the Minds (TOM) that challenges students to be creative and innovative in their ways of solving complex problems and scenarios.
HPGE Challenge Cup at Elderslie High School
Students work alongside over 100 students from schools across Camden and beyond, tackling brain-teasing problems and even designing and building their own board games.
Stage 1 Brain Strain Challenge at Mount Annan Public School
This challenge day aims to extend and challenge some of our younger students' critical and creative thinking skills, supporting HPGE in the younger years.
Lunchtime Clubs
These clubs offer a range of opportunities that cater to special interests and fostering enriched learning opportunities across HPGE domains
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.
Student opportunities and activities
Discover the opportunities our students have at our school.
Learning
Find out about our approach to learning and supporting students to progress.
Some students learn faster and more easily than others. 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 high potential students with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.