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 our 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.
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.
Royal North Shore Hospital School is committed to ensuring every student attending our unique setting is provided with the opportunity to succeed. Our classroom practices are designed to identify, support, and extend students, through challenging and enriching activities that promote their growth and engagement.
- Students are provided with differentiated tasks that adjust content, pace, complexity and higher-order thinking skills.
- Staff explicitly teach critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Teachers utilise formative assessment to monitor growth, provide feedback and adapt learning.
- Learning experiences promote choice, authenticity and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Supportive and safe learning environments that enable exploration, reflection and self-assessment.
- Ongoing opportunities for student voice within the learning cycle.
- Opportunities for inquiry.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence and continuity of learning.
Our school recognises that every student is unique, and we offer flexible and varied opportunities for students to discover and develop their individual strengths and abilities.
- Personalised and flexible curriculum pathways (online, accelerated, self paced).
- Partnership opportunities with schools within the network to provide extension programs in STEM and coding challenges.
- Individual talents are celebrated and extended through students showcasing their skills within our unique setting.
- Art and Music enrichment groups.
Students have the opportunity to participate in range of state-wide programs, designed to extend their learning and enrich their individual potential.
- Film By the Hospital - Students plan, develop and create their own short film.
- Students engage in academic competitions, such as the Whitlam Institute What Matters Writing Competition
- Students participate in creative competitions such as and the NSW Department of Education Calendar for Cultural Diversity Competition.
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.
Learning
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