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.
At Cawdor Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.
- Teachers 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.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Wellbeing program focusing on emotions, empathy, problem solving.
- Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.
Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.
- Leadership grows through SRC, school leadership roles and leadership days with local schools, classroom buddy mentoring program for Stage 3 students with ES1 students and wellbeing is made visible with PBL awards.
- Talent is celebrated through showcases such as Cawdor's Got Talent, visual arts competitions, and mixed dance group.
- Students deepen strengths through participating in cross school academic challenges.
- Sport matters too, with PSSA sport, training, coaching and house competitions that include differentiated PE.
- Dance Performance Group.
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
- The Premier's Spelling Bee promotes our students' vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- The Premier's Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways.
- 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.
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