High potential and gifted education
Wilton Public School is committed to recognising and nurturing the abilities of High Potential and Gifted students through our extensive HPGE opportunities. We understand that gifted learners have unique educational needs that require a differentiated approach to fully develop their intellectual, creative, and social potential.
Our HPGE program is designed to provide a stimulating and challenging learning environment that goes beyond the standard curriculum. Students identified as having high potential or giftedness engage in deep learning experiences that promote critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovation. Through flexible groupings and enrichment opportunities, students explore advanced concepts and pursue areas of personal interest at an accelerated pace.
Key features of our HPGE program include:
- Differentiated Curriculum: Lessons are tailored to challenge students’ abilities, incorporating higher-order thinking tasks and extension activities within and beyond the classroom.
- Enrichment Activities: We offer a range of extracurricular opportunities such as debating, creative writing club, choir, dance groups, drama, chess club, lego club, mathematics club and STEM challenges, designed to foster curiosity and develop diverse talents.
- Personalised Support: Teachers collaborate closely with families to create individual learning plans that align with each student’s strengths and learning style, ensuring meaningful progress and wellbeing.
- Social and Emotional Development: We provide targeted support to help gifted students navigate social dynamics, build resilience, and develop leadership skills, promoting a balanced and healthy school experience.
- Inclusive Environment: Our program celebrates diversity and encourages all students to contribute their unique perspectives, fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, and lifelong learning.
At Wilton Public School, we believe every child deserves the opportunity to shine. Our HPGE program is an integral part of our commitment to providing high-quality education that inspires excellence and nurtures a love of learning in every student.
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.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Advanced learning pathways, including accelerated or compacted content.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
- 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.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Debating
- STEM and coding clubs
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- Music ensembles
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Creative writing groups
- Sport squads
- House competitions
- Performance-based movement groups
- Peer mentoring
- Student leadership
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Participation in music ensembles hones our students’ musical skills, discipline and ensemble awareness.
- 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.
- Our mentoring programs connect our students with trusted adults including school alumni to build confidence, motivation, and interpersonal skills.
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
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