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.

At Strathfield North Public School, we are committed to developing high potential across 4 domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional:

Creative domain – refers to natural abilities in imagination, invention and originality.
Intellectual domain – refers to natural abilities in processing, understanding, reasoning, and the transfer of learning.
Physical domain – refers to natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control.
Social-emotional – refers to natural abilities in self-management and relating to and interacting with others.

How do we identify high potential or gifted students?

We know that potential exists along a continuum, where different levels of potential require different approaches. Strathfield North uses objective, valid and reliable measures to assess and identify high potential and gifted students’ learning needs.

At our school, high potential and gifted students are assessed through:

internal and external assessments
domain-specific characteristic identification tool
performance in extracurricular activities
teacher observations.

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.

Rich Opportunities at SNPS

We offer a range of extracurricular opportunities and programs that develop talent across our school. Some of these programs include:

Recorder Consort
Training Choir
K-6 Dance Ensembles
Training Orchestra
Classroom Instrumental Programs
Critical and Creative Thinking Groups
Wheelchair Sport
Concord Cup
Koori Connections
Gimbawali
Pulse Alive Dance
Specfest Dance
Ukulele
After School External Providers
Inclusive Ten Pin Bowling

In our classroom at SNPS

At Strathfield North Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful. Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

In our classrooms we offer:

Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
Regular opportunities for students to voice their opinions and give feedback on their learning
Tasks that promote choice and critical and creative thinking.
Enrichment and acceleration programs in mathematics.
Supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
Stage 2 and 3 Enrichment Groups

Across our school at SNPS

School level

Our school recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom.