High potential and gifted education
High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) helps all students in NSW public schools stay interested and challenged in their learning by meeting their specific learning needs. It focuses on 4 domains (types) of potential: creative, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional.
How we support high potential or gifted learners
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.
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
Our high potential and gifted education opportunities
St George Hospital School is committed to ensuring every student attending our unique setting is provided with the opportunity to succeed. Our classroom practices are designed to identify, support, and extend students, through challenging and enriching activities that promote their growth and engagement.
- Students are provided with differentiated tasks that adjust content, pace, complexity and higher-order thinking skills.
- Staff explicitly teach critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Teachers utilise assessment to monitor growth, provide feedback and adapt learning.
- Learning experiences promote choice, authenticity and critical and creative thinking.
- Supportive and safe learning environments that enable exploration, reflection and self-assessment.
- Ongoing opportunities for student voice within the learning cycle.
- Opportunities for inquiry.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence and continuity of learning.
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.