At Bankstown West Public School, we recognise and nurture High Potential and Gifted students early. We support advanced learners with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive. 🌟
The Education Act (NSW) 1990 supports every student to achieve their educational potential. High potential and gifted students across all 4 domains of potential (intellectual, creative, physical and social-emotional) require evidence-based talent development to optimise their growth and achievement. 📜
The Inspire – High potential and gifted education Policy promotes engagement and challenge for every student in every school. The policy also identifies and addresses the learning needs of high-potential and gifted students. 🎯
The NSW DoE video highlights the importance of an inclusive, stimulating environment that nurtures and challenges HPGS learners.💡
INTELLECTUAL
Refers to natural abilities in processing, understanding, reasoning, and the transfer of learning. 🧠
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
Refers to natural abilities in self-management and relating to and interacting with others. ❤️
CREATIVE
Refers to natural abilities in imagination, invention and originality. 🎨
PHYSICAL
Refers to natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control. 🏃♂️
Inspire – 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 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. 🎯
- 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. 🛡️
- STEM 🔬
- Coding Group 💻
- Maths Olympiad ➗
- Academic competitions 🏆
- Choir 🎶
- Dance 💃
- PSSA ⚽️
- Student leadership (SRC) 👥
- Wellbeing programs ❤️
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives 🤝
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings. 🐝
- Participation in music ensembles (e.g. State Wind Orchestra, State Choirs) 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 and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration. ⚽️
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
