High potential and gifted education
At Cardiff North Public School, we proudly support and implement the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) policy. This policy recognises the diverse strengths and needs of gifted and high potential students. At Cardiff North Public School, we focus on knowing the needs of students as individuals, and providing personalised learning that meets these needs, allowing everyone to reach their full potential.
Our focus covers four key domains:
- Creative Domain: We offer opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic skills, encouraging originality and creative problem-solving through a variety of activities.
- Intellectual Domain: We provide enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
- Physical Domain: We recognise the importance of physical development and support students in improving coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
- Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social growth 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 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.
- personalised learning plans and Ready to Learn Plans, focused on students individual learning needs.
- opportunities for extension and enrichment.
- opportunities to explore passions and areas of interest.
- targeted extension groups
- external academic competitions
- students voice and leadership opportunities
- Chess Club
- Green Team
- Public Speaking
- Peer Support groups and leadership
- Starstruck
- Hunter Dance Festival
Opportunity class placement
- Selective High School opportunities (academic, creative arts, and sport)
- Premier's Spelling Bee
- 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.
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.
Student opportunities and activities
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Learning
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