High potential and gifted education
At Canterbury South Public School we foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent.
We are committed to developing high potential across 4 domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
Our high potential and gifted education opportunities
Our students can take part in HPGE opportunities in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility and control.
- We support students with high potential through targeted enrichment, extension and extra curricular opportunities such as debating, competitions and coding clubs.
- Student talent is celebrated and extended through school concerts, visual arts showcases and creative writing groups.
- Our students regularly can take part in sports training squads.
- NSW Premier's Debating Challenge
- Premier's Public Speaking Competition
- NSW Premier's Spelling Bee
- NSW Permier's Reading Challenge
Why choose us for your intellectual high potential or gifted child?
Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students. We 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.
We offer:
- Debating, Public Speaking
- STEM and coding clubs
- Academic competitions
- Mathematics and creative writing enrichment opportunities.
Why choose us for your physical high potential or gifted child?
Our offerings engage and challenge students who are elite performing athletes, including a strong focus on talent development to successfully gain entry to representative teams and High Schools.
We offer:
- Sport squads- Futsal
- House competitions - Athletics, Swimming and Cross Country
- The Premier's Sporting Challenge
- Zone and regional team trials.
Why choose us for your creative high potential or gifted child?
Student talent is celebrated and extended through whole school musical concerts, drama groups, visual arts showcases, music ensembles and creative writing groups.
We offer:
- Critical thinking workshops - Author experiences
- School musical concerts
- Music ensembles at Sydney Opera House
- Visual arts showcases
- Creative writing groups
Why choose us for your social-emotional high potential or gifted child?
All our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles through student representative council leadership, mentoring programs and peer coaching.
We offer:
- Elected Year 6 leadership roles
- Student leadership within the Student Representative Council
- Wellbeing program leaders - GEM mentors, Peer Support
- Participation in inter-school leadership and wellbeing initiatives.
Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be during regular consultations with you.
Co-Teaching environments for flexible grouping
Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
Success beyond the classroom
Students can take part in programs in the arts, sport, leadership and more.
Shaping futures through Public Education
Our students can participate in a wide range of state-wide programs 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.
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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