High potential and gifted education

At Cringila Public School, we are committed to recognising and nurturing the potential of all students, including those identified as high potential and gifted. High Potential and Gifted (HPGE) education focuses on supporting students whose capacity in one or more of the four domains—intellectual, creative, social-emotional, and physical—significantly exceeds that of their age peers.

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 Cringila Public School, we are dedicated to implementing the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy by providing a comprehensive, student-centred approach that nurtures the potential of every learner across these four domains.

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 Cringila Public School, we recognise that high potential exists in many forms across all learners. Our approach to High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) is embedded in everyday teaching and learning, guided by a strong focus on formative assessment, evidence-based practices, and effective differentiation to meet the unique needs of every student. Our teachers receive ongoing professional learning and work collaboratively to enhance teaching and learning.

Classroom teaching strategies to develop talent include:

Use of formative assessment tools
High expectations embedded in lesson planning

Differentiated tasks that adjust pace and complexity
Flexible groupings
Targeted learning goals
Strengths-based feedback
Collaborative learning opportunities

Across our school

At Cringila Public School, High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) is an integral part of our core activities. We recognise and foster each student’s unique talents by offering flexible, diverse, and enriching opportunities that promote growth across academic, creative, social, and physical domains.

School wide opportunities to develop talent include:

School Leadership opportunities
Interschool sport competitions
Representative sport pathways
Gala Days
PSSA knockouts
Sporting schools - tennis, gymnastics
Swimming, Athletics, and Cross Country carnivals
Student Representative Council
Student leadership programs 1.g. GRIP and Launch, Discover, Act
Public speaking
Dance group
School camp (Stage 3)
Living Classroom Permaculture Garden initiative
Book Club
STEM enrichment program
Class performances at assemblies
Wellbeing programs
Curriculum aligned excursions & incursions
Enrichment groups
Extension groups
Differentiated mathematics groups
School Buddy program
Crinny’s Got Talent
Writing/ Poetry competitions
Swimming Scheme

Additionally, we actively engage in statewide competitions and activities, giving students meaningful opportunities to challenge themselves and excel. Through this collaborative and enriched approach, we celebrate and nurture each student’s unique talents, ensuring they are recognised and developed to their full potential.

Across NSW

State wide opportunities to develop talent include:

Southern Stars
NSW Premier's Spelling Bee
NSW PSSA School Sport Pathways
First Lego League (FLL competition)
Wollongong and Shellharbour High Potential and Academically Gifted (HPAG) Extension program

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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