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.

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 our school, every student is known as an individual, and our High Potential and Gifted Education opportunities are designed to be flexible, diverse, and inclusive across the four HPGE domains.

We provide meaningful learning experiences that challenge thinking, spark creativity, develop physical capability, and strengthen student voice and wellbeing.

ZZPS staff are committed to ongoing PL to support HPGE programs across the school to benefit our students.

Across our school

Our whole-school Intellectual opportunities include celebration and project days focused on STEAM, mathematics, writing, technology, cooking and film, creating rich moments to identify and nurture high potential in authentic ways.

In the Creative domain, students are encouraged to participate in dance, music, and writing events, including whole-school performances at special occasions, alongside clubs such as Minecraft, gardening, choir and other student-interest groups that foster imagination, skill development, and creative expression.

Physica l HPGE opportunities ensure all students access a range of sporting events—school carnivals, gala days, targeted clinics, and pathways toward representation at zone and district level—supporting personal goals in coordination, agility, control, and teamwork.

Across the Social-Emotional domain, programs such as Peer Support, buddy initiatives, student leadership pathways, Young AECG, and the SRC strengthen confidence, collaboration, responsibility, and self-reflection. Our whole-school wellbeing learning through PAX and our Anxiety project support and build resilience and emotional growth.

We are proud that our HPGE commitment is more than a framework—it reflects who we are as a small school community, where potential is noticed, valued, nurtured, and championed together every day.

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, Premiers Spelling Bee, Premiers Reading Challenge, Western NSW Dance Festival, Nagoya Sister City Art Exchange and Operation Art competition

The Representative School Sport PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional and state levels, fostering skill development and talent identification.

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