High potential and gifted education

Our approach focuses on four key domains in every classroom. Our classrooms are diverse and foster curiosity in all learning domains:

Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
Physical Domain: Recognising the importance of physical development, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community.

Teachers adapt lessons to meet the needs of every student, ensuring learning is engaging and appropriately challenging. With strong systems in place to identify and support gifted learners, and flexible groupings that allow students to learn at their own pace, Sturt creates an environment where every student can 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.

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 Sturt Public School, High Potential Gifted Education is seen in every classroom. We nurture and challenge every gifted learner through a dynamic blend of in-class support and a range of other experiences. Every class is an enrichment class, where differentiation is seamlessly integrated to meet the diverse strengths and learning needs of our students. Our approach ensures that each child is engaged, inspired, and extended through tailored learning opportunities that promote critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.

At Sturt Public School, every classroom buzzes with enrichment, where high potential learners are supported to excel and flourish in a stimulating and inclusive environment. We celebrate each child’s unique abilities, guiding them to reach their full potential and become confident, lifelong learners.

Across our school

At Sturt Public School

We are committed to developing high potential across 4 domains: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent.
Students are identified by the classroom teacher and referred to the learning support team.
Students are supported in class with tailored lessons that inspire and challenge using differentiation and adjustments.
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.
We partner with the local high school to offer a range of opportunities to our students.

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.

Students participate in opportunities such as DoE Game Changer Challenge, APSMO Maths Olympiad, Premier’s Spelling Bee, Premier’s Multicultural Public Speaking, Tournament of Minds, PSSA and State sporting knockouts, STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities.
Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high potential and gifted students, and we help with entries, preparation and reflection so every experience feeds back into learning.