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 , including 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.
Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.
- We offer differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity, presentation styles and higher-order thinking.
- We support our students through strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- We deliver explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Tasks that promote connectedness, real-world significance, authenticity and critical and creative thinking, including cross-curricular projects and presentations.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement delivered by a PDHPE specialist.
At Dora Creek Public School we offer a range of HPGE opportunities to increase engagement, recognition of students' areas of strength and/ or growth potential, and achievement across the four HPGE domains.
Intellectual Domain:
- Newcastle Permanent Mathematics Competition
- STEM and coding
- Extension groups in Mathematics and Writing
Creative Domain:
- Hunter HPGE Creative Arts Camp
- Star Struck Dance
- WSLA Star Struck Ensemble- WSLA Deadly Awards
- DCPS Dance Ensemble, Hunter Dance Festival
- Student Talent and Interest Groups (all domains)
- Young Dobell Art Competition
- Rotary Writing Competition
- Hunter / Central Coast Public Speaking
Physical Domain:
- Swimming Carnival
- Athletics Carnival
- Cross Country Carnival
- Football (Soccer) Gala Days
- Netball Gala Days
- League Tag
- PD/ H/ PE specialist
- Premier's Sporting Challenge
- Touch
- Lunchtime Sporting Competition
Social-emotional Learning Domain
- Grip Leadership Program
- Student Representative Council
- School Leaders
- Sport Leaders/ House Captains
- Environment "Green Team"
- Get Hooked Sustainable Fishing
- DCPS Chook Team
- Student leadership- Events
Our school embraces state wide programs to extend and enrich student potential. Students participate in opportunities such as:
- Premier's Spelling Bee
- Premier's Reading Challenge
- Premier's Sporting Challenge
- PSSA trials, knockouts and events
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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