High potential and gifted education

Some students learn faster and more easily than others. These students may shine in creativity, thinking, leadership or sport.

At our school, we recognise and nurture these strengths early. We support advanced learners with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.

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.

At Ambarvale High School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. We are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive at our school.

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

Our classroom practices support and extend high potential and gifted students and include but are not limited to:-

Use assessment and data to identify and teach HPG students
Set challenging learning goals
Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
Tailored learning pathways, including accelerated or transition opportunities
Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
Providing explicit feedback linked to students’ goals and assessment criteria

Across our school

We offer a range of whole-school programs that support student growth including:-

Providing a wide range of co-curricular activities for HPG students across the creative, intellectual, physical and social emotional domains
HPG students from all backgrounds have access to quality learning opportunities
Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives
STEM and innovative program opportunities
Academic competitions
Critical thinking workshops
Encouraging high potential and gifted students to take on leadership roles and providing opportunities for a range of inclusive and diverse positions of responsibility.
Developing student talent leading to opportunities in specific sports representative teams, coaching sessions and differentiated PDHPE programs.

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of programs to extend their potential including:-

Participation in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
Our mentoring programs connect our students with trusted adults including school alumni to build confidence, motivation, and interpersonal skills.
Supporting sporting participation in a multitude of competitions including gala days, combined high schools knock out competitions and selection through to zone, regional and state carnivals.
Participation in (state/regional) drama ensembles promote character exploration, storytelling and expressive freedom for our Stage 5 high potential and gifted drama students.
Science & Engineering Challenge
Sydney Writers Festival
Australian Science Olympiad
Australian Mathematics Competition
History Mastermind
Model United Nations
Tournament of the minds