High potential and gifted education
At Tintinhull Public School we are proud to align our approach with the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) policy, which recognises the diverse strengths and needs of gifted and high potential students.
Our objective is to create a supportive and enriching environment for high potential and gifted students that fosters their academic, social, and emotional development.
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.
Each student has different abilities. Teachers respond to each student's ability by providing extra challenges and extension acticities 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
Our students engage with HPGE education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
· Teachers identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.
· Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.
· Students are involved in and foster strengths in public speaking and our podcasting group.
· Talent is celebrated through school musical, drama performances, visual arts show cases and dance.
· Leadership grows through SRC, Meals On Wheels, mentoring and peer coaching, and well being is made visible with our PROUD expectations, school mountain bike track, school fish and lizard enclosure and of course our therapy dog Arlo.
· Daily life invites curiosity and a sense of belonging with our environment through our gardening group, vegetable patch and our ‘Koala And Others’ program.
· Sport matters too, with PSSA sport, gymnastics program, coaching and differentiated PE programs.
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
· Students participate in opportunities such as Premier’s Spelling Bee and the Premier’s Multicultural Public Speaking. Our students also participate in statewide PSSA sports for their region.
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.
Student opportunities and activities
Discover the opportunities our students have had at our school.
Find out about our approach to learning and supporting students to progress.