High potential and gifted education

Students have unique learning styles, strengths, and paces. They may shine in creativity, thinking, leadership or sport.

At Hurstville Grove Infants School, we recognise and nurture these strengths early. We support advanced learners with inspiring lessons and activities to help them grow and succeed.

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.

In our classroom

At Hurstville Grove Infants School, our teachers are professionally trained to embed High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) within all their teaching and learning programs. Opportunities occur daily for students to develop their talent across the four domains through challenging and engaging learning in the classroom.

Differentiated Curriculum: Learning tasks are personalised to support every student's learning needs. Individual learning goals are set for each student to challenge and extend their learning.

Teaching Strategies: Our teachers employ a wide range of teaching strategies to support their students’ higher order thinking skills. These strategies involve teachers adjusting the complexity, pace, challenge and choice while also considering the learning environment and abstract thinking involved for each learning task.

Engaging Learning Tasks: Problem solving skills are developed through engaging learning tasks that are personalised to suit student interests.

Assessment and Feedback: Ongoing, regular assessment opportunities are embedded within classroom learning to capture students’ progress and learning needs. Feedback is constantly provided and unpacked with students in the moment.

Social-Emotional Development: Class discussions, activities and routines to support our students’ social-emotional wellbeing and develop their resilience and leadership skills are a part of our daily life at HGIS. A whole school approach to positive behaviour for learning is utilised to support and celebrate students.

Across our school

At Hurstville Grove Infants School, we offer a wide range of activities and interest groups - known as GIGs - that cater for High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) across the four domains of intellectual, social-emotional, creative and physical. These GIGs aim to give students opportunities for talent development to enhance their potential and/or giftedness. Some are offered to all students, while others are offered to particular students who have been identified by their teacher as a student with high potential in a particular domain/s. Many of these GIGs include:

Choir
Mindfulness Meditation
Sunshine Project (connecting with Georges Estate aged care)
Hurstville Grove FC
Dance Troupe
Chess Club
French Club
Gardening Club
Book Club
Wonderful Weaving

Additionally, our school hosts multiple events throughout the year that provide students with opportunities to showcase their talents. Some of these events include Athletics Carnival, Cross Country, Soccer Gala, Art Showcase, Talent Quest, Public Speaking, various concerts and many more.

Across NSW

At Hurstville Grove Infants School, we connect with state-wide HPGE programs to extend student learning beyond the classroom. Some of these include:

Whole school involvement in the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge & NSW Premier's Sporting Challenge
Selected students representing our school in the Georges River Network Public Speaking Competition
Dance Troupe students performing annually at the Combined Schools Concert