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.
At Rand Public School, high potential and gifted education (HPGE) is embedded in everyday practice, nurturing the extraordinary potential of many students and transforming it into powerful achievements. Our dedicated teachers carefully identify each student's unique learning needs within the classroom, employing evidence-informed strategies to challenge and extend their abilities. We offer diverse learning pathways, including enrichment programs, extension opportunities, and acceleration options, ensuring every student can thrive. Our supportive and inclusive classroom environments foster a strong sense of belonging while encouraging risk-taking, creativity, and collaboration. With flexible groupings and student-led roles, our feedback is strengths-based, goal-oriented, and promotes self-assessment. Committed to ongoing professional learning, our teachers continuously enhance their skills to meet the diverse needs of all learners, especially those with high potential and gifted abilities.
Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?
Recognising potential and developing talent
Rand Public School is proud to be a place where every student’s unique abilities are recognised, celebrated, and nurtured. Our passionate and dedicated teachers consistently go above and beyond to create personalised learning experiences that not only meet individual needs but also ignite curiosity and inspire genuine passion for learning. By offering thoughtfully designed challenges and extension activities, Rand PS ensures that education is always stimulating, engaging, and tailored to each student’s interests and talents.
Tailored lessons
At Rand Public School, we recognise and celebrate the unique abilities of every student. Our dedicated teachers go above and beyond to tailor learning experiences that not only meet but inspire each learner. By offering extra challenges and extension activities, they ensure that education remains exciting, engaging, and perfectly suited to each student's interests and talents. This personalised approach fosters a vibrant learning environment where every student can thrive and reach their full potential.
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.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Advanced learning pathways, including accelerated or compacted content.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- STEM
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- School drama productions
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Creative writing groups
- Sport squads
- Peer mentoring
- Student leadership
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
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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