High potential and gifted education

At Cammeray Public School, our teaching and learning programs are adjusted to provide learning support and enhancement for all our students. Some students learn more quickly or more easily than their peers.

For these high potential and gifted students, class teachers routinely adjust learning activities for complexity, challenge, choice, abstraction, creative & critical thinking, higher order thinking, pace and authenticity.

Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?

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

There are four domains of potential. They are:

Creative – Natural abilities in imagination, invention, and originality.

Intellectual – Natural abilities in processing, understanding, reasoning, and the transfer of learning.

Physical – Natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control.

Social-emotional – Natural abilities in self-management and relating to and interacting with others.

Below are some of the opportunities in each of the domains that are provided to support our HP&G students to thrive.

Extension, Enrichment or Extra-curricular

Activities to support high potential and gifted students fall into three categories - extension, enrichment and extra-curricular. Below is a description of each category.

Extension - typically seeks to increase the depth and challenge of learning within the same year context and can also include learning beyond that typically offered to students of a particular year group. Extension deepens and extends student knowledge, understanding, and skills. In that way, extension programs can be viewed as vertically engaging and challenging.

Enrichment - typically seeks to broaden the learning experience by applying learning to new and different contexts. These programs offer the opportunity for like-minded students to work together on challenging learning that may not be offered elsewhere in the regular school week. In this way, enrichment programs can be viewed as horizontally engaging and challenging.

Extra-curricular - typically seeks to support and augment core teaching and learning in the school. They may offer extension and enrichment in specific activities (such as debating, student leadership, sport, and technology programs) and/or from external providers and experts.

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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