High potential and gifted education

Every student has unique strengths and ways of learning. Some may show particular talents in areas such as creativity, problem-solving, leadership, or sport.

At our school, we value and nurture each learner’s abilities from an early stage. We provide enriching lessons and activities that help all students grow, extend their learning, 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.

In our classroom

In our classrooms, HPGE looks like purposeful teaching that stretches thinking, sparks curiosity, and supports creativity. Students are encouraged to problem-solve, collaborate, and pursue independent inquiries. Teachers use flexible grouping, open-ended tasks, and extension activities to ensure that all learners, including those with high potential, are able to thrive and achieve their personal best.

Across our school

Across our school, HPGE is about recognising and nurturing the unique strengths of every learner. At Dungog Public School, we provide opportunities for students to think deeply, explore their interests, and apply their talents in meaningful ways. Our teachers plan rich and engaging learning experiences that extend students and encourage them to take on new challenges.

Across NSW

Across New South Wales, High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) supports students who show advanced ability in one or more areas, intellectual, creative, social-emotional, or physical. The NSW Department of Education is committed to ensuring every student is challenged, extended, and supported to reach their full potential through enrichment, differentiation, and talent development.

Intellectual Domain

What it means: This refers to a student’s natural ability in processing information, understanding complex ideas, reasoning, and transferring learning to new situations.

Your child may show a strong curiosity for understanding how things work, quickly grasp new ideas, and enjoy solving challenging problems. In the intellectual domain, we support these learners by offering deeper, richer and more complex learning opportunities to help them continue growing.

Creative Domain

What it means: This is about natural ability in imagination, originality, inventiveness and producing new ideas or ways of doing things.

Some children love to imagine, experiment and create, whether in art, writing, design or in how they solve everyday problems. We recognise this as the creative domain and provide chances for them to explore and extend their creative talents in the classroom and beyond.

Physical Domain

What it means: This refers to natural ability in movement, motor skills, coordination, agility or strength — in other words, physical/motor talents.

Many children find they’re really good at sport, dance or other physical activities — they pick up new skills fast, show strong coordination or love pushing themselves physically. We make sure there are ways for these learners to develop their physical potential as well as their academic skills.

What it means: This domain involves natural ability in self-management, awareness, relating to and interacting with others, and handling one’s own emotions and social-life.

Some children shine in social or emotional ways: they may be natural leaders, very empathetic, self-aware or very attuned to others and their own feelings. Recognising the social-emotional domain means we support children not just academically, but also in their emotional growth and ability to connect, lead and contribute.

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

If you would like more information regarding HPGE, please feel free to contact us.

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