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.

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

We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent. Our students engage with education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.

In our classroom

At Glenbrook Public School, every learner’s potential is our priority. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.

Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Across our school

At Glenbrook Public School, we recognise that every student is an individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths.

Our school offers a diverse range of opportunities across the 4 domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
All our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles through student representative council and mentoring programs such as peer support, kindy mentor buddies, environmental club, library monitors, recycling monitors, IT support specialists and Premiers Sporting Challenge ambassadors.
Student talent is celebrated and extended through creative and performing arts such as Film by the Eucalypts, school dance groups, school choirs, music ensembles and Operation Art.
Our students are fortunate to participate in many sporting opportunities Stake Knockout Representative teams, Girls Soccer Gala, Blue Mountains Summer Games day and the Winmalee Cup. Many students trial for Sydney West representative teams where our school is very successful.
A variety of opportunities are offered in the intellectual domain of high potential. These include our school poetry competition, the Blue Mountains Public Speaking Competition, Maths Olympiad and Maths Explorer program.

Across NSW

Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high potential and gifted students, and we help with entries, preparation and reflection so every experience feeds back into learning.

At Glenbrook Public School, our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential. These include the Department of Education WriteOn Competition, Premiers Debating Challenge, Premiers Spelling Bee and the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition.