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.

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 classrooms

Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be. We identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Teachers challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day
We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent
Our classrooms engage and challenge every student, including a strong focus on talent development for high potential and gifted learners
We are committed to developing high potential across 4 domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional and offer a diverse range of opportunities in all four domains

Across our school

At Sackville Street Public School, every learner’s potential is our priority. Our school is a place of diversity and opportunity, where every learner belongs. Every student is an individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.

Debating / Public Speaking
STEM and coding opportunities
Academic competitions
School Musical (bi-annually)
Creative Arts enrichment groups
Sporting teams - school based and representative levels
Lunchtime and interest-based groups
Student leadership (SRC)
Student Wellbeing Teams
Student Curriculum Teams
Junior AECG (Aboriginal Education Consultative Group)

Across NSW

Many students have high potential, and at Sackville Street Public School, we help that potential to grow into something powerful. We offer a variety of opportunities to support and enrich our students within the school setting and wider community including a wide range of statewide and local community programs. These include but not limited to the following:

The Premier’s Spelling Bee - this promotes vocabulary development and attention to detail in a competitive setting with the wider community
The Premier’s Debating and Public Speaking Challenge - helps build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking
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.