High potential and gifted education

In our classroom

At Roselea Public School, high potential and gifted education (HPGE) is integrated into our daily learning experiences. We believe that all students demonstrate potential across one or more of the four domains.

Teachers identify each student’s learning needs and strengths across the curriculum and apply evidence-based explicit teaching strategies to meet each student at their point of need, extending and challenging them to reach their potential.

We offer a variety of learning pathways, including enrichment programs, extension tasks, and acceleration when suitable. Students are identified by teachers (with family insights welcome and encouraged) as having high potential or giftedness across the intellectual, creative, physical, or social-emotional domains. This information is shared throughout the school to ensure effective support for every learner.

We create nurturing classroom environments that foster a sense of belonging, encourage creativity, risk-taking, and collaboration. Gifted students receive differentiated tasks that adjust the pace and complexity and promote higher-order thinking. Formative assessment is used to monitor growth and adapt learning to ensure we meet students' individual level of challenge.

Flexible groupings, leadership opportunities, and feedback centred on strengths with student-centred learning goals and self-assessment are key features of our approach.

Across our school

Our school recognises that every student is an individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom. We identify and support students with high potential through targeted enrichment, extension and extra-curricular opportunities. All of our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles.

Our practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which highlights the importance of supporting giftedness across four essential domains:

• Creative Domain: Supporting students to develop original ideas and express themselves through creative thinking, problem-solving, and artistic pursuits.
• Intellectual (Cognitive) Domain: Offering challenging learning experiences that nurture advanced thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual development.
• Physical Domain: Encouraging physical growth and wellbeing through activities that improve coordination, health, and physical skills.
• Social-Emotional Domain: Promoting emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social interactions to support the wellbeing of gifted learners.

At Roselea Public School, we are dedicated to fostering the whole child by recognising and nurturing each student’s potential across these four domains, ensuring every learner is empowered to succeed. These opportunities are provided both in school and after hours by a number of external providers. For a full list of the opportunities we provide check out our 'student opportunities and activities' page

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential. We provide access to local, state and national competitions and events to help students explore and extend their talents.

At Roselea PS at a system level, HPGE students are supported through:

Intellectual Domain

• The Maths Olympiad Program fosters creative and critical thinking in mathematics and challenges high-achieving and talented students.
• MindQuest offers different courses for students in Years 1-6 designed to enrich and extend students of similar interests and abilities to foster student potential in a range of experiences, including science, space, mathematics, writing, art and robotics.

Creative Domain

• Epping Beecroft Music Festival showcases the talents of students from various schools in the region, featuring a wide range of performances, including dance groups, choirs, and bands, providing a platform for our young performers to develop confidence and teamwork.
• State Band Competitions - Our high-performing, award-winning band compete in numerous competitions and performance evenings.

Social-Emotional Domain

• The Hills Student Council - Our school leaders are active participants in a network-wide student council, discussing important topics relevant to youth of today

Physical Domain

• 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 events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.