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.
Our approach aligns with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which emphasises the importance of supporting high potential and gifted learners across four key domains:
Intellectual Domain: Using targeted teaching strategies and student groupings to provide varied and challenging learning opportunities that develop higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual growth.
Creative Domain: Nurturing creative and critical thinking and artistic opportunities and expression.
Physical Domain: Enhancing physical capabilities and wellbeing through activities that build coordination, fitness, and skill.
Social-Emotional Domain: Supporting students’ wellbeing through building emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social connections with others.
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 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 Shalvey Public School, our committed staff work tirelessly every day to recognise and nurture the potential in each and every student.
- Our classes are set up to support and extend high potential and gifted students through targeted teaching and flexible grouping strategies.
- Students' learning needs in the classroom are clearly identified and teachers use a range of evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students.
- Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners
Shalvey Public School offers a range of activities, events and programs to support student growth and attainment.
- Every school day brings opportunities for students to participate in a range of extra-curricula activities, including chess club, choir, art club and more!
- Student leadership is built through student voice and opportunities such as our School Leaders, Sports Captains and Mount Druitt Network representatives.
- Creativity is fostered and showcased through our cultural dance performances, Public Education Week Concert and visual arts displays.
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
- Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
- Statewide/NSW Department of Education level support is available for our high potential and gifted students.
- We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents. These include: The Premier’s Reading Challenge, The Premier’s Debating Challenge, The Premier’s Sporting Challenge, PSSA GALA events and competitions.
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
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Learning
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