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 focuses on four key domains:
- Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
- Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
- Physical Domain: Recognising the importance of physical development, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
- Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community
Our high potential and gifted education opportunities
Our students engage with HPGE education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
At Castlereagh Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. We challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day.
- Teachers identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.
- Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
- We provide tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking.
- Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners
We nurture excellence through collaborative learning initiatives, leadership opportunities, and enrichment programs that promote academic, social, and emotional development. Students are encouraged to pursue their passions through clubs, competitions, and whole-school challenges.
- Debating
- STEM and coding clubs
- Gardening club
- Chess Club
- Academic competitions
- Dance ensembles
- Visual arts competitions
- Creative writing groups
- Sporting teams
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
Our students are actively involved in state-wide initiatives and programs that connect them with peers and experts across New South Wales. These experiences include participation in academic competitions, enrichment workshops, and partnerships with educational institutions that extend learning beyond the school community.
- Premier’s Spelling Bee
- Schools Spectacular
- Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC)
- Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA
- Nagoya Art Exchange
Our high potential and gifted educational partnerships
Richmond Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Education
We are proud to work closely with the Excellence Centre High School, providing our students with a wide range of opportunities to extend their learning beyond the classroom. Through this partnership, our students participate in a variety of programs, incursions, and excursions designed to challenge and inspire them, fostering academic growth and personal development. See the Stage 1-2-3 programson offer at Richmond Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Education.
Longneck Lagoon Environmental Education Centre
We are proud to partner with the Longneck Lagoon Environmental Education Centre, offering our students engaging opportunities to learn beyond the classroom. Through this collaboration, students participate in hands-on programs, incursions, and excursions that encourage curiosity, environmental awareness, and personal growth. HPGE students also benefit from a range of specialised experiences designed to extend and challenge their learning.
Explore their Primary Programs at Longneck Lagoon Environmental Education Centre.
Brewongle Environmental Education Centre
We are proud to partner with the Brewongle Environmental Education Centre, giving our students exciting opportunities to learn, lead, and grow beyond the classroom. Through this partnership, students participate in a range of immersive experiences that promote teamwork, environmental stewardship, and personal development. They also have the opportunity to take part in leadership camps, a writers’ camp, and HP&GE excursions, all designed to inspire creativity and extend their learning in meaningful ways.
Discover more about the programs on offer at Brewongle Environmental Education Centre.
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.
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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