Inspire - High potential and gifted education (HPGE)

High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) helps all students in NSW public schools stay interested and challenged in their learning by meeting their specific learning needs.

As part of our commitment to HPGE, our school provisions learning opportunities that extend students' critical thinking, and challenges them according to their capabilities.

HPGE definitions

High potential students are those whose ability is higher than students of the same age, and they can benefit from being challenged more.

Gifted students have very high ability compared to students of the same age and can develop their talent quickly and easily when given opportunities.

Highly gifted students have exceptional ability and may need significant adjustments to meet their advanced learning needs.

Four domains of ability

Creative - refers to natural abilities in imagination, invention and originality.

Intellectual - refers to natural abilities in processing, understanding, reasoning, and the transfer of learning.

Physical - refers to natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control.

Social-emotional - refers to natural abilities in self-management and relating to and interacting with others

HPGE opportunities include:

Rich tasks with a focus on application of understanding

Interschool sport (including dance, soccer, cricket, netball, swimming & athletics)

Specialised excursions

Robotics

Guest speakers

Maths Olympiad

Debating competitions

Public speaking competitions

International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS)

Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC)