High potential and gifted education
All NSW public schools have a range of differentiated learning opportunities, enabling students to thrive and reach their potential. Some students learn faster and more easily than others. These students may shine in creativity, thinking, leadership or sport. At Walters Road Public School, we recognise and nurture these strengths early. We support advanced learners with quality lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.
Every learner’s potential is our priority. Our School is a place of diversity and opportunity, where every learner belongs. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across the 4 domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional
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 learning tasks
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching
- Opportunities for inquiry
- Student goal setting
- Leadership in the classroom
- Targeted Academic Extension Activities
- Dhurag Dhalang Language Groups
- Debating
- Public Speaking
- ICAS (International Competitions and Assessments for Schools)
- Interschool/House Sport
- School Sport Competitions
- Sports Gala Days
- Library Monitors
- Student Leadership
- SRC (Student Representative Council)
- Buddy Programs
- Peer Mentoring
- Interschool Sport – PSSA
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC)
- Blacktown Learning Community - Public Speaking Competition
- Operation Art
- Visual Arts Showcasing
- The Schools Spectacular
- Synergy Dance
- Junior AECG (The NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Inc.)
- Representative School Sport Pathways
- Combined Choir BFOP
- Premier’s Reading Challenge
- Blacktown Learning Community – STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics)
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.
Opportunities at our school
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
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Learning
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