High potential and gifted education

At Nundle Public School every learner’s potential is our priority. Many of our students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful. We are committed to ensuring all learning environments are inclusive, supportive and challenging for all learners, ensuring they are engaged and motivated about learning. Our school has a variety of supports available for students through a range of high potential and gifted opportunities. Our HPGE programs are designed to identify and nurture giftedness across the four key domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.

Our approach focuses on four key domains:

Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and creative expression, encouraging problem-solving and creative and critical thinking through a variety of immersive activities.

Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences and real world scenarios that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.

Physical Domain: We support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities, and coach facilitated sports.

Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community.

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 programs in the arts, sport, leadership and more.

Opening doors to wider experiences

Our students can participate in a wide range of state-wide programs 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.

Learn more about HPGE here

Our high potential and gifted education opportunities

Our students can take part in HPGE opportunities in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.

For more information, contact us.

In our classroom

Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.

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.
Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.