High potential and gifted education

High Potential and Gifted Education (HP&GE) is embedded throughout our teaching and learning programs and across all key learning areas. We allow for planned and responsive differentiation and adjustments to be made for individual and/or groups of students, including students with a disability, who require an individualised approach that embraces their ingenuity in the intellectual, creative, physical, and social-emotional domains of High Potential and Gifted Education.

In our classroom, students are taught by resourceful educators with diverse backgrounds and interests, strengthening our capacity to meet the needs of all our students.  Our educators provide a safe, yet challenging learning environment for students to get comfortable with getting uncomfortable during learning.

In our classrooms, all students are explicitly taught general capabilities to enhance:

• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Digital Literacy
• Ethical Understanding
• Intercultural Understanding
• Personal and Social Capability
• Literacy and Numeracy

Student voice plays an integral role in the process of co-creating, alongside their expert educators and informed families, Individual Education Plans.  These plans are co-created to enhance students’ potential through clearly defined individual learning goals and tailored learning support, ensuring every child is challenged, engaged, and supported to reach their full potential.

Across our school, students are provided structured and supervised un-structured opportunities to explore and display their unique qualities in each of the domains where they are encouraged to be aspirational in their pursuit of discovery.  Students learn how to apply the general capabilities beyond the classroom and in various settings and situations, including student led initiatives and during play.  Our school’s involvement in numerous participation and competitive academic, creative, physical, social-emotional, and cultural school-based and interschool events ensures that every student connects, thrives, and succeeds.

• Enrichment days
• STEM
• Sport
• Music
• Creative and Performing Arts
• School play and productions
• Peer Support
• Student Representative Council
• Orienteering
• GRIP Leadership

Our learning spaces enhance students’ ability to demonstrate their flair and passion in an area of their choice.  Our playgrounds, steeped in nature’s wonders, invite our students to stretch their limits playing sport, invent and innovate games, forge friendships, be of service to self and others, create fortresses, be resourceful, and be a leader.

Students and educators collaborate across the Temora Small Schools Network, which includes six partner schools. Through shared programs, professional learning, and enriching experiences, students are supported to grow their skills and talents using the High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) framework.  Cooperative learning and teamwork encourage all students to learn, to challenge themselves, and to aim high.

Our Temora Small Schools network students:

• create possibilities, consider alternatives, and put ideas into action.
• locate information, acquire and collate data, interpret data
• explore ethical perspectives and issues, make and reflect on ethical decisions
• communicate responsively, develop multiple perspectives, and develop empathy
• self-manage through goal setting, emotional regulation, perseverance and adaptability
• lead, collaborate, decision-make, and resolve conflict

Our Temora Small Schools network students participate in:

• Debating gala day
• Biannual creative and performing arts production
• PSSA sporting carnivals and competitions

Our students take part in exciting opportunities from across NSW that help them learn, grow, and challenge themselves.  These programs support our HPGE learners to try new things and reach their best, including:

• Premier’s Sporting Challenge
• Premier's Reading Challenge
• Premier’s Debating Challenge
• Premier’s Public Speaking Challenge
• PSSA sports
• Creative Arts Camp
• ICAS Assessments
• Statewide Reading and Numeracy Check-in assessments
• NAPLAN.