Inspire – 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?

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?

Inspire – 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 HPGE students to thrive.

In our classroom

At Cammeray Public School, our classrooms are vibrant and inclusive where every student is encouraged to think deeply, take learning risks and pursue excellence

Visual Arts enrichment programs
Music enrichment programs
Science enrichment programs
Educational Research Projects
Rich tasks in mathematics
Whole school writing challenges

Across our school

Band program (Junior Band, Intermediate Band, Concert Band, Big Band, Stage Band)
Strings Ensemble
Junior and Senior Choirs
Festival of Choral Music
Primary Proms
Schools Spectacular
Tournament of Minds
Glee Club
Ngara project learning
APSMO Maths Olympiad (Stage 3)
APSMO Maths Explorer (Stage 2)
Robokids and Scope IT programs
Kids’ Lit
Premier’s Spelling Bee
Writing competitions
Author talks
Junior and Senior Dance Groups
Student Representative Council
Buddy programs
Peer Support
Year 5 SLiPS program
Year 6 Leadership opportunities
Speak Offs

Across NSW

Carnivals – swimming, athletics & cross country
Zone and regional carnivals
PSSA sport teams and gala days
Sydney Writers Festival events
Premier's Sporting Challenge
Representative Sporting Pathways / Representative sport trials
SiSA programs
Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition
Inter-school debating
Premier’s Debating Competition
You Can Sit With Me ambassadorships

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.

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