Inspire – High potential and gifted education
At Dungowan Public School, we are committed to helping every student achieve their best by providing learning opportunities tailored to their unique strengths and needs. Our teachers use diverse teaching strategies to both support and challenge all learners, including those with exceptional abilities and those requiring additional assistance. We offer a range of programs specifically designed to identify and nurture giftedness across four key areas: creativity, intellectual ability, physical skills, and social-emotional strengths.
Creative Domain: Students are provided opportunities to develop innovative thinking and express their creativity. Through engaging activities, we encourage problem-solving as well as creative and critical thinking skills.
Intellectual Domain: Students are challenged with enriched learning experiences and real-world problems that promote advanced knowledge, deep inquiry, and higher-order thinking across all subjects.
Physical Domain: We help students improve their coordination, health, and physical abilities through focused activities and coached sports programs.
Social-Emotional Domain: We focus on supporting students’ emotional wellbeing and social growth by building resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships, helping them thrive in our school community.
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?
Inspire – 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.
Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- 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.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
Our school offers a range of whole-school programs that support student growth.
- Language and culture programs
- Debating
- STEM and Coding
- Student leadership
- Creative writing workshops
- Participation in regional eisteddfods
- Participation in regional creative art performances
- Art competitions
- Gardening and cooking
- Coach delivered sporting programs
Our students participate in a wide range of programs to extend their potential.
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee.
- The Premier's Reading Challenge
- STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities.
- The Arts Unit
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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