High potential and gifted education
At Hamilton South Public School, we are dedicated to implementing the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy by providing a comprehensive, student-centred approach that nurtures the potential of every learner across the four domains.
Creative Domain: Opportunities are provided for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving.
Intellectual Domain: Students are challenged 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, students are supported in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
Social-Emotional Domain: Fostering resilience, self-awareness, leadership skills, and the ability to support and inspire others, helping them to build positive relationships and contribute meaningfully within the school community.
Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?
Recognising potential and developing talent
Staff are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive at our school.
Tailored lessons
We identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.
Rich opportunities and activities
Our school supports students with high potential through targeted enrichment, extension and extra-curricular opportunities such as debating, competitions, creative arts activities STEM and coding clubs.
Opening doors to wider experiences
We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents.
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.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking
- Flexible grouping
- 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.
- Targeted extension groups for identified students
- Debating
- Robotics
- STEM and coding clubs
- Gardening Club
- Chess Group
- Academic competitions
- School musicals
- Music ensembles
- Choir
- Drama Club
- Sport squads and teams (PSSA)
- Sporting gala days and competitions
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Student Representative Council
- Wellbeing programs
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Wakakirri is a performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW schools.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- Primary School Sports Association 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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