High potential and gifted education

At Nangamay Public School, we strive to know our students deeply to recognise the full range of their abilities and needs. We are committed to creating inclusive and culturally safe learning environments that support all students by respecting and valuing diversity. High potential and gifted students from all backgrounds have access to quality learning opportunities tailored to their unique needs and aspirations.

Our teachers employ culturally responsive teaching methods, acknowledging that students’ cultural backgrounds shape their ways of knowing, thinking, and communicating. We foster positive relationships with families and communities to collaboratively support every student in reaching their potential.

Through targeted support, we help students build confidence and develop the skills necessary for success. We also provide necessary adjustments to ensure that high potential and gifted students with disability can fully participate in learning experiences alongside their peers.

At Nangamay Public School, every student’s potential is valued, nurtured, and celebrated.

Our approach focuses on four key domains:

Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
Intellectual Domain: We challenge students 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, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community.

At Nangamay Public School, we are committed to implementing the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy through a student-centred approach that nurtures the potential of every learner across intellectual, creative, physical, and social-emotional domains. Using ongoing assessment and evidence-based programs, we provide safe and inclusive learning environments, support wellbeing, and collaborate with families to ensure all high potential and gifted students 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.

In our classroom

At Nangamay Public School, HPGE is part of our everyday practice. We recognise the high potential in many of our students and are dedicated to nurturing that potential into strengths. Every day, we challenge our learners to think deeply, create imaginatively, lead confidently, and grow both academically and personally in a supportive and inclusive environment.

We are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive at our school.
Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students by building on their unique strengths, experiences, and cultural backgrounds as valuable learner assets.
We identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students, providing flexible learning pathways including enrichment, extension programs, and acceleration.
Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity, collaboration, and positive learner dispositions such as curiosity, resilience, self-regulation, and a growth mindset.
Collaborative co-teaching practices enable specialist educators and classroom teachers to work together, delivering differentiated and personalised instruction to meet diverse learning needs and accelerate student progress.
We actively engage our learners in goal-setting and reflection, fostering student agency and ownership of their learning and personal development.
Our teachers participate in ongoing professional learning to effectively support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Our practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which emphasises the importance of nurturing potential across four essential domains:

Creative Domain: Encouraging students to develop original ideas and express themselves through creative thinking, problem-solving, and artistic pursuits.
Intellectual (Cognitive) Domain: Providing challenging learning experiences that foster advanced thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual growth.
Physical Domain: Supporting physical development and wellbeing through activities that enhance coordination, health, and physical skills.
Social-Emotional Domain: Promoting emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social interactions to support the overall wellbeing of gifted learners.

Across our school

Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.

Students deepen strengths through debating, public speaking competitions, Spelling Bees, STEM and coding pathways through extracurricular groups such as Robotics.
Talent is celebrated through showcases such as the Limelight Festival, Art Exhibitions, Synery Festival, Blue Mountains and Nepean Dance Festival, Junior and Senior choirs, Junior and Senior Dance Groups.
Leadership grows through SRC, School Leaders: Captains, Prefects, House Captains, Meeters and Greeters.
Our students have opportunities to participate in a variety of physical activities and competitions, including school carnivals with pathways to higher-level representation, Gala Day teams, State Knockout competitions, specialised sports clinics, differentiated Physical Education programs, and Multi-Category Carnivals.

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.

Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high potential and gifted students, and we help with entries, preparation and reflection so every experience feeds back into learning.