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 Annandale Public School, we recognise and nurture these strengths. We challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day.

Our school offers a diverse range of opportunities across the four domains of potential: creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional. 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 Annandale Public School, we identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students, including:

Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking.
Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
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.

Across our school

Debating
Public Speaking
School Science Week competition
STEM competitions
Mathematics challenges and competitions
Music ensembles (from beginner through to enrichment level)
Dance ensembles
Drama Ensembles
Visual Art competition
Film Festival
Primary School Sport Association (PSSA) competition
Representative sport
Buddy program
Student Representative Council (SRC)

Across NSW

The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
The Metropolitan South and Metropolitan South and West Public Speaking Competition provides the opportunity for talented speakers to compete in school, network and grand final at an elite level.
Our participation in the Australasian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympiad (APSMO) competition and programs, challenges our students to develop their mathematical problem-solving skills.
Involvement in the Game Changer Challenge empowers our students to solve future-focused problems using design thinking.
The Schools Spectacular is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
In the Spotlight Dance Festival develops our high potential dance ensemble students' technical skills, performance presence and physical expressiveness.
Participation in In the Spotlight Drama festival provides high potential and gifted drama ensemble students opportunity for character exploration, storytelling and expressive freedom.
Participation in the Arts Unit Festival of Instrumental Music hones our students’ musical skills, discipline and ensemble awareness.
Participation in Primary Proms provides opportunity to extend students' musical skills and engage with advanced repertoires within a choral ensemble.
The Film By the City Festival provides students opportunity to extend their critical and creative thinking skills and develop technical and story-telling skills through film-making.
The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
The Representative School Sport Pathway, PSSA and NSWPSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.