High potential and gifted education
At Fassifern Public School, we recognise that some students learn more quickly or demonstrate advanced potential in areas such as creativity, leadership, critical thinking, or sport. We are committed to identifying and nurturing these talents early, providing meaningful opportunities that extend, challenge, and inspire our advanced learners.
To support and enrich our high potential and gifted students, we offer a range of engaging programs and initiatives. Some of these include:
- Art Club (student-led)
- Sport Club (student-led)
- Interschool Handball Competitions
- Design ‘n’ Build Targeted Lessons – integrating Art, STEM, and Technology
- Community of Schools (CoS) HPGE Program in partnership with Lake Macquarie High School
- Interschool Chess Club
- Interschool Battle of the Brains
- Environmental Groups – Rubbish Rangers (student-led)
These opportunities foster curiosity, collaboration, and leadership while ensuring every student is encouraged to reach their full potential.
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 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.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- STEM and coding clubs
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Peer mentoring
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
- The PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
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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