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 Glen Innes Public 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.
- 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.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- 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.
- Debating
- STEM and coding clubs
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- School musicals
- Music ensembles
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Creative writing groups
- Sport squads
- House competitions
- Performance-based movement groups
- Peer mentoring
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Library monitors
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- NSW Premier's Spelling Bee promotes students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in a competitive setting. It is an engaging way for NSW public primary school students to expand vocabulary and improve their spelling. Specifically designed for Stage 2 and 3, however Stage 1 students are welcome to participate.
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
- Participation in music ensembles (e.g NECOM) 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 such as PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
- Our mentoring programs connect our students with trusted adults including school alumni to build confidence, motivation, and interpersonal skills.
- ICAS assessments - Students have the opportunity to participate in ICAS assessements each year. These assessments include Digital Technologies, Writing, English, Science, Spelling Bee and Mathematics. Janison and the University of Sydney share a fundamental belief in educaiton for all and a desire to unlock every student's potential.
Academic competitions/opportunities
Author/illustrator Gus Gordon visit. Selected students were treated to an illustration workshop. Students had the opportunity to ask questions, and to work on their own illustration skills and styles. Gus Gordon is an internationally acclaimed illustrator and author. He has illustrated and/or written over 80 books for children.
Glen Innes Public School Excellence in Sport
Numerous sports, individual and team sports are offered to Glen Innes Public School students to represent at school level, zone, region, state and national levels. Sports teach us valuable life lessons that extend beyond the field, track or court. They instill in us the importance of teamwork, leadership, resilience and discipline.
Music ensembles
GIPS proudly partner with New England Conservatorium (NECOM), who deliver high quality music education programs every week, including;
-activities that implement the NESA syllabus
-individual and group music tuition
-design and deliver gifted and talented programs
-leading and developing band, choral and ensemble programs
Aurora College
Aurora College is the NSW Department of Educations virtual school for high-potential and gifted rural and remote students in Years 5–10. Our dual-enrolment model allows students to access high-quality, future-focused learning while staying connected to their home school and local community.
Students learn in an inclusive, dynamic environment that champions academic excellence, innovation and personal growth. Our experienced teachers use evidence-based online pedagogy, specialist technologies and small class sizes to support every student to thrive.
Trips, excursions and incursions
Our students enjoy getting out of the classroom to explore, learn and try new things. Highlights are our Stage 3 excursion to Lake Ainsworth, Stage 2 to Thalgarrah Environmental Educational Centre. These experiences help them grow, build confidence and see how their learning connects to the world.
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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