High potential and gifted education
At Niangala, we’re excited to be part of a special network of small schools across the state, working together on a High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) project. Our students get to connect online with others, explore projects across four important areas; creative, intellectual, physical, and social–emotional domains and present their work to a real audience beyond our school. This connection with professionals in each field means our students receive meaningful feedback that helps them grow and develop their ideas further. We’ve seen their confidence and expectations of themselves soar, and the enthusiasm from students, staff, and families has been incredible. It’s wonderful to watch our young learners step up, share their passions, and shine on a bigger stage.
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.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Advanced learning pathways, including accelerated or compacted content.
- 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.
- Targeted Individual Learning Goals for continued engagement, responsibility for learning and progressive learning.
- Opportunities for leadership.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Academic competitions
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- 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.
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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