High potential and gifted education
At Iluka Public School, 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. We are committed to nurturing high potential across four key domains: creative, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional, providing a supportive and inclusive environment where all learners 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.
At Iluka Public School, we are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive at our school.
In the classroom, teachers:
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- 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.
At Iluka Public School, we recognise that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom.
Our school offers a diverse range of opportunities across the 4 domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional.
- Public Speaking
- Academic competitions
- Spelling Bee
- Public Speaking Competition
- Eisteddfod singing performances
- Dance Group
- Eisteddfod dance performances
- Small School’s Big Impact Concert
- Whole-school music, dance and drama performances
- Music lessons with tutors from the Clarence Valley Conservatorium
- Excursions and Incursions
- STEM kits and activities
- Chess Tournament
- Big River Film Festival
- Primary School Sports Association (PSSA) representative sports
- Student leadership
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
Students participate in opportunities such as:
- Premier’s Reading Challenge
- Premier’s Spelling Bee
- Premier’s Sporting Challenge
- PSSA Sporting Competitions
- Premier's Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
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