Inspire – High potential and gifted education

At Kellyville Public School, we recognise and nurture the strengths of all students. A strategic whole school approach has been developed following the New South Wales Department of Education updated Inspire – High potential and gifted education Policy. Through teacher professional development sessions teachers are skilled to identify students that show natural ability and high potential in across curriculum areas. This ensures that students will become more aware of the skills, tools and strategies to develop goals for self-improvement.

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What is high potential and gifted education?

Inspire – 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.

The Four Domains of Potential

The four domains of potential do not sit in isolation and students may demonstrate high potential in 1 or more domains. The domains of potential may interact and influence one another.

Creative Domain

The creative domain of potential refers to natural abilities in imagination, invention and originality. Students are supported through the encouragement of creativity, innovation, risk taking and problem solving

Intellectual Domain

The intellectual domain of potential refers to natural abilities in processing, understanding, reasoning and the transfer of learning. To support students advanced cognitive ability, talent development in this domain may include differentiation, extensions, enrichment and purposeful groupings

Physical Domain

The physical domain of potential refers to natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control. Targeted talent development includes providing opportunities, mentoring, coaching, extension and enrichment.

The Social-emotional domain of potential refers to natural abilities in self management and relating to and interacting with others. Developing talent through leadership opportunities, promoting self-awareness, interpersonal skills and mentoring opportunities.

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

· Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies

· Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning

· Differentiation is taught through Teaching and Learning Programs which are modified to extend and challenge higher order thinking

· Opportunities for inquiry and development of depth of understanding

· Purposeful and flexible student groupings to meet learning objectives

· Individualised student feedback to support self-assessment for goal setting

· Supportive classroom environments to promote risk taking, creativity and peer collaboration

Across our school

· Dance Groups – Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3, with opportunities to perform and compete across local and state levels.

· Choir – Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3 with opportunities to perform across the local Sydney area

· Drumming group

· School Junior and Senior Bands from Year 2 with opportunities to perform across the local area

· Public Speaking within the school and representation at The Hills Public Speaking Competitions

· Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking

· Debating Teams within the school and representation at Premier’s Debating Challenge

· Debating camps and workshops

· Participation in writing competitions

· Student led peer support groups

· Leadership opportunities – School and House Captains; Student Representative Council, Library Monitors, Gugundi Midigaa (Aboriginal history and cultures)

· Student enrichment groups

· Participation in whole school wellbeing initiatives

Across NSW

· Opportunity to participate in statewide art exhibitions

· Opportunity to perform at state and other creative arts festivals

· Maths Olympiad and Maths Explorer to foster creative and critical thinking in Mathematics

· NSW Premier’s Spelling Bee

· The representative school sport pathway and PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sport at regional, state and national levels