Inspire – High potential and gifted education

Our approach focuses on four key domains in every classroom. Our classrooms are diverse and foster curiosity in all learning domains:

Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
Physical Domain: Recognising the importance of physical development, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community.

Teachers adapt lessons to meet the needs of every student, ensuring learning is engaging and appropriately challenging. With strong systems in place to identify and support gifted learners, and flexible groupings that allow students to learn at their own pace, Sturt creates an environment where every student 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?

Inspire – 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 North Wagga Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. We challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day.

Teachers identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.
Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
We provide tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking.
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Across our school

At North Wagga Public School, Inspire – High potential and gifted education forms a vital part of our core business. We recognise and nurture the unique talents of every student by providing flexible, diverse, and enriching opportunities that support growth across academic, creative, social, and physical domains.

Here are some of the opportunities available to support the talent development of students at North Wagga Public School:

· Music program (recorder and ukulele)

· Interschool sport competitions

· Representative sport pathways

· Student Representative Council

· Dance groups

· Choirs

· Chess

· Eco Warriors – environmental club

· Annual whole school performance

· Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing

initiatives

· Curriculum aligned excursions & incursions

STEM and coding clubs

· Lunchtime Create Club/interest groups

Across NSW

We actively participate in statewide competitions and activities, providing our students with valuable opportunities to challenge themselves and perform at their best. Through this collaborative and enriched approach, we ensure every student’s unique talents are recognised, developed, and celebrated.

Here are some of the opportunities available to support the talent development of students at North Wagga Public School:

School Spectacular
NSW PSSA School sport pathways
Festival of Instrumental Music – Opera House, Sydney (FoIM)
Riverina and State Dance Festivals
Riverina Choral Festival
Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high potential and gifted students, and we help with entries