High potential and gifted education (HPGE)

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.

Like all students, high-potential and gifted learners require scaffolding and structure in learning to help manage the demands of cognitive load. Explicit teaching and guided inquiry are just as necessary for gifted students as for all students. Our explicit teaching approach helps to ensure student learning needs are catered to every day within the classroom.

Additionally, we offer a range of opportunities to support High potential and gifted education (HPGE) students beyond the classroom across the four domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.

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

Creative domain

The creative domain refers to natural abilities in imagination, invention and originality. Our school is proud of its strong performing arts culture, with representation and involvement in:

Festival of Instrumental Music
Festival of Choral Music
Schools Spectacular
Queanbeyan Choral Festival
District Arts Festival

Intellectual domain

The intellectual domain refers to natural abilities in processing, understanding, reasoning, and the transfer of learning. We support students in a range of ways to develop their talents in and beyond the classroom through:

Accelerated learning
Maths Explorers & Maths Olympiad
da Vinci Decathlon
NSW Premier's Spelling Bee
Chess club

Physical domain

The physical domain refers to natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control. Students are supported and encourage to build their talents through:

Sporting Schools clinics
Interschool sports and PSSA representation (individual and team events)
Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics

Social-emotional domain

The social-emotional domain refers to natural abilities in self-management and relating to and interacting with others. We support and develop the abilities of our students through: