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.
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.
At Millthorpe Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor and adapt for learning.
- Opportunities for inquiry and curriculum depth.
- Flexible grouping for collaboration.
- Differentiated tasks and skills in PE and Sport.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Learning environments that encourage risk-taking and perseverance.
- Evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students.
- Teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners
Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.
- Debating - Kerry Parkes Competition
- Public Speaking - CWA
- Chess
- Academic competitions eg: ICAS
- School performances
- Music ensembles - band and percussion
- Visual arts, dance and drama workshops - UpStage, Musica Viva, Foot Steps Dance
- Talent showcases - Millthorpe's Got Talent & Music@Millthorpe
- Sporting teams - PSSA and gala days
- House competitions - sporting and wellbeing
- Peer mentoring - Kinder buddies
- Student leadership - SRC, senior leaders, house captains
- Wellbeing programs - PBL, GOT-IT, The Resilience Project
- Critical thinking and STEM opportunities - coding & Lego Club
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- 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 PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
- The Arts Unit supports our students by providing workshops, dance opportunities and participation in the Operation Art Initiative.
Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?
Our chess team has grown from strength to strength under the tutelage of Mr Cummins. Our teams meet weekly to enjoy competitive or social games, while learning new moves and being guidance. Our A Grade chess team recently competed in the regional semi-finals of the state wide primary schools chess competition.
After two intense rounds of closely contested matches, they secured a victory and advanced to the Western Region Finals.
Help for your high potential child
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