High potential and gifted education

At Rosehill Public School, every learner’s potential is our priority. We are proud to align our approach with the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) policy, which recognises the diverse strengths and needs of all students. The department is committed to ensuring equitable access to high potential and gifted education for all students, regardless of background or location.

The HPGE policy promotes engagement and challenge for every student in every school, while explicitly identifying and addressing the learning needs of high potential and gifted students. It describes a framework to develop the talent of high potential and gifted students, and provides advice for educators to implement effective learning and teaching practices.

All NSW public schools provide a range of differentiated learning opportunities, enabling students to thrive and reach their potential.

At Rosehill Public School, we find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be, not only academically, but also creatively, physically, and socially. Our focus is on challenging, extending, and engaging all learners, preparing them for lifelong success, wellbeing, and fulfilment. Some students learn faster and exhibit more advanced potential, knowledge and/or skills and talents than their same-aged peers in any of the four domains listed below– these are identified as high potential or gifted students.

We build on this by offering a diverse range of programs and experiences across these four domains of potential:

Creative Domain: We inspire students to think imaginatively and express themselves through a variety of creative experiences. Our programs encourage originality, innovation, and problem-solving across the arts and other creative pursuits.

Intellectual Domain: We extend students through rich and challenging learning experiences that promote deep inquiry, critical thinking, and advanced understanding across all areas of the curriculum.

Physical Domain: We value the role of physical growth and wellbeing by providing opportunities for students to build strength, coordination, and confidence through focused physical activities, sport, and movement.

Social-Emotional Domain: We nurture students’ emotional wellbeing and interpersonal skills by fostering self-awareness, resilience, empathy, and strong relationships, helping them to thrive both in learning and within our school community.

We are committed to developing high potential and giftedness in each of these domains, realising that potential exists along a continuum. We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence. Every student, regardless of background, is supported to develop their potential into talent through inclusive environments that recognise, respect, and value diversity. 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

At Rosehill Public School, we are committed to recognising and nurturing all students, including high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student can thrive at our school. We recognise high potential and giftedness occurs in many forms. Our teachers engage in ongoing professional learning to develop their knowledge of HPGE research and strategies to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Our classrooms provide an environment where our high potential and gifted learners can grow and thrive.

Every teacher holds high expectations for all learners to achieve their potential, and this is embedded in our teaching and learning programs.

Supportive and nurturing classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, collaboration and creativity.

Explicit teaching in all Key Learning areas, including skills and strategies in solving problems.

Identification of students' learning needs in the classroom and use of evidence-informed teaching practices, including providing differentiated programs/tasks/learning opportunities for challenge and extension.

Teachers use ongoing formative assessment data to monitor growth in learning and to inform lesson planning and differentiation for ongoing student engagement.

Teachers and students set targeted learning goals and reflect on their progress.

Flexible grouping, such as by task complexity, interests or abilities, ensuring appropriate challenge and fostering collaboration, leadership and social skills.

Our teachers engage in ongoing professional learning to develop their knowledge of HPGE research and strategies to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

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 and talents outside the classroom. Some of these opportunities occur in lunchtime clubs. Our teaching staff continue to develop skills in identifying and nurturing talent in all four domains of potential – intellectual, physical, creative and social-emotional.