Inspire – High potential and gifted education

• We are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive at our school.
• We identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students.
• Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
• Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.
• We use explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
• Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students.
• We strive to know our students to ensure that the full range of their abilities and needs is recognised.
• Our targeted support helps students to build confidence and develop the skills they need to succeed.
• We provide adjustments to ensure high potential and gifted students with disability can participate in learning experiences on the same basis as students without disability.

We offer:

• Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
• Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
• Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
• Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
• Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
• Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
• Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.

• Our school recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom.
• Our school offers a range of whole-school programs that support student growth.
• We create inclusive environments to support all students by recognising, respecting and valuing diversity.
• At our school, high potential and gifted students from all backgrounds have access to quality learning opportunities that meet their needs and aspirations.
• We create a supportive and culturally safe learning environment. Our teachers use culturally responsive teaching methods, recognising that students’ cultural backgrounds influence their ways of knowing, thinking and communicating.
• We foster positive relationships with families and communities to support all students to reach their potential.

We offer:

• Visual arts and drama showcases
• Wellbeing programs
• Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
• Community of Schools (CoS) Public Speaking Competition
• Community of Schools (CoS) Junior Music Day
• Southern Illawarra Music Festival opportunities

• Statewide/NSW Department of Education level support is available for our high potential and gifted students.

We offer:

• Southern Stars is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
• The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
• We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents.
• The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
• The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.