High potential and gifted education

At Boggabri Public School, we proudly align our practices with the NSW Department of Education's High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) policy, recognising that high potential and gifted students demonstrate diverse strengths, talents, and learning needs. We are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive, and high challenge learning environment where all students are engaged, motivated, and empowered to reach their full potential.

Our approach reflects whole-child view of high potential, ensuring students are identified early and supported through purposeful, evidence-based teaching and learning practices. By embracing a broad understanding of giftedness, we aim to nurture excellence not only in academic achievement, but also in creativity, physical development, and social-emotional wellbeing. Preparing students to thrive both at school and beyond.

Our approach focuses on four key domains:

Creative Domain
We provide rich opportunities for students to explore creativity and innovation through the arts, problem-solving tasks, and authentic learning experiences that encourage originality, imagination, and risk taking.

Intellectual Domain
Students are challenged through enriched and differentiated learning experiences that promote higher order thinking, deep inquiry, and curriculum extension, supporting strong growth across all learning areas.

Physical Domain
Recognising the importance of physical development and wellbeing, we support students to develop coordination, confidence, and physical competence through targeted programs, sport, and movement based opportunities.

Social-Emotional Domain
We place a strong emphasis on student wellbeing, fostering resilience, self regulation, positve relationships, and a strong sense of belonging so students feel supported to take on challenge and succeed.

At Boggabri Public School, we are committed to implementing the HPGE policy through a comprehansive, student centred approach that identifies, nurtures, and extends the potential of every learner across these four domains.

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

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.
Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
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 learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
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.

Across our school

Debating
Academic competitions
Critical thinking workshops
School musicals
Visual arts and drama showcases
Creative writing groups
Sport opportunities
House competitions
Performance-based movement groups
Peer mentoring
Student leadership (SRC)
Wellbeing programs
Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.

Across NSW

The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
Involvement in the Game Changer Challenge empowers our students to solve future-focused problems using design thinking.
Participation in Operation Art identifies and nurtures students' creative potential, providing authentic opportunities for artistic excellence, expression and extension beyond the classroom.