High-potential and gifted education 🙇🏼‍♀️🙇🏻🙇‍♂️

At Lidcombe Public School, we are committed to providing learning opportunities that meet the needs of all students, including those with high potential and giftedness. Our approach is guided by the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) Policy, which promotes engagement, challenge and support for every learner.

Some students may demonstrate advanced learning ability in areas such as thinking, creativity, leadership, sport or social–emotional skills. We work to identify these strengths early and support students through learning experiences that extend and enrich their growth.

Our teachers use evidence-informed practices and differentiated learning to ensure students with high potential are appropriately challenged. We aim to create a positive and inclusive environment where every student is encouraged to aim high and achieve personal success.

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Why choose us for your high-potential or gifted child?

Recognising potential and developing talent

Our teachers identify students’ strengths early and nurture their potential so they can achieve their best.

Tailored lessons

Teachers respond to individual learning needs through enrichment, extension and differentiated learning activities that keep students engaged and challenged.

Rich opportunities and activities

Students participate in a wide range of academic, creative, sporting and leadership opportunities to develop their talents.

Opening doors to wider experiences

Our students can access a variety of state-wide programs designed to extend and enrich learning beyond the classroom.

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 Lidcombe Public School, HPGE is embedded in everyday teaching practice.

Teachers identify learning needs and provide differentiated and extension activities across all learning areas
Enrichment programs are offered in literacy and numeracy
Classrooms promote a growth mindset, collaboration and high expectations
Students take on leadership roles and set personal learning goals using clear learning intentions and success criteria
All staff engage in professional learning to support diverse learners, including students with high potential

Across our school

Students are provided opportunities to participate in HPGE programs across intellectual, creative, sporting and social-emotional domains, including:

School leadership roles (school captains and prefects)
Student Representative Council (SRC)
Maths Olympiad and Maths Explores
Writing enrichment groups
Student News Club
Chess Club
Dance troupe
Junior and senior choir
Swimming, cross country and athletics carnivals
School sport programs focused on skill development
Eco Warriors
Library monitors
Art Club
STEM Club
Rock Steady school band

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of state-wide programs to further extend and enrich their potential, including:

Schools Spectacular
Gimbawali Concert
ICAS competitions (English, Mathematics and Writing)
Premier’s Debating Challenge
Premier’s Spelling Bee
Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition
Zone, area, state and national carnivals (swimming, cross country and athletics)
Auburn Zone PSSA sports including cricket, soccer, netball, league tag, AFL and T-ball/softball
Sydney West School Sport representation