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.
We have:
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
We have:
- Debating and Public Speaking
- Chess Club
- Dance, including StarStruck.
- Drama club.
- STEM club
- Sing club
- Principal’s Reading Challenge
- Cultural activities, including Awabakal language group, Aboriginal Pathways Team and Killi Biin Biin awards.
- Student leadership ( School Leaders, Sports Captains)
- Wellbeing programs, such as Kindness Club, The Resilience Project and PAX.
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives, such as and The Impact Academy.
- PSSA competitions and Sporting Gala days.
- HPGE identified students activities, including screen printing, persuasive writing, video making,
We have:
- Multicultural Public Speaking Competition
- Involvement in Children’s University, linked to University of Newcastle.
- The Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) promotes whole-school reading habits and exposure to a variety of different texts.
- 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 Crossroads Zone events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
Children’s University
An innovative program that engages children and young people in exciting, out-of-school learning opportunities to increase their chances for educational achievement and rewards them for taking responsibility for their own learning.
Sporting Experiences
From gala days, skills clinics, PSSA competitions and representative opportunities in school sports, Elermore Vale Public School provides experiences for all students to extend their sporting abilities.
Premier’s Sporting Challenge
The purpose of the Challenge is to encourage students to participate in sport and physical activity to lead a healthy lifestyle.
Performing Arts
Drama, singing, public speaking and dance are all experiences that are provided to all of our students, with the ability to extend these skills into further opportunities beyond the classroom.
Star Struck
Participation in Star Struck, a performing arts extravaganza presented by Newcastle, The Hunter and Central Coast areas of the NSW Department of Education.
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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