High potential and gifted education

At Galungara Public School, teachers are committed to identifying and nurturing high potential in students through the use of objective, valid and reliable formative assessment practices. These practices inform teaching and learning across the creative, intellectual, physical and social–emotional domains.

Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
Physical Domain: Recognising the importance of physical development, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and 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.

Teaching and learning at Galungara Public School is underpinned by high expectations for all students. Teachers recognise that every learner benefits from evidence-informed, differentiated learning opportunities designed to maximise growth, engagement and achievement.

Teachers systematically assess and identify the specific learning needs of all high potential, gifted and highly gifted students, ensuring equitable access to differentiated programs and targeted support that respond to individual strengths and needs.

We work in partnership with families, our school community and the wider community, and engage in ongoing professional learning to strengthen teacher capability. Through these collaborative and reflective practices, our teachers are committed to being the catalyst for high performance and talent development for 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.

In our classroom

In our learning spaces

We are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student can thrive and flourish at our school.
Our homebase practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.
We identify students' learning needs in the homebase and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.
Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Across our school

Across our school

Our school recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside our Homebases.
Our school offers a range of whole-school programs that support student growth.
Our school identifies and supports students with high potential through targeted enrichment, extension and extra-curricular opportunities such as debating, public speaking, competitions, project-based learning, STEM and Passion Projects.
All our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles through our school’s General Assembly (student representative council) leadership, Sport Leaders and peer coaching.
Student talent is celebrated and extended through Dance, Music, Choir and Art.
Our students can take part in sports teams, coaching sessions, house competitions and differentiated Physical Education programs.

Across NSW

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
Statewide/NSW Department of Education level support is available for our high potential and gifted students.
We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents.