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.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking.
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Advanced learning pathways, including accelerated or compacted content.
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- 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.
- Debating
- STEM and coding clubs
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- School musicals
- Music ensembles
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Creative writing groups
- Sport squads
- House competitions
- Performance-based movement groups
- Peer mentoring
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA and CHSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
CPS.FM - Kid Powered Radio
Working with 100.3 The Sounds of Macarthur - Students have been working with industry professionals to create live radio shows for our school community.
School Leadership, SRC, and Green Team
Students at Campbelltown Public School undertake a number of leadership based opportunities across the school.
This includes:
- Stage 3 Leadership Camp
- Our School Captains and Prefects
- Our Student Representative Council (SRC)
- Our Sports Leaders
- Our Green Team
Arts Alive and Film On
The Arts Alive and Film On festivals gives students the opportunity to be film makers. Students undertake and experience the roles of writers, directors, actors, film technicians and editors to create a film.
PSSA GALA Events and In school Incursions
Our school participates in PSSA Gala Day events twice a term for soccer, touch football, basketball, netball and cricket. The school hosts different sport based incursions each year for the Macarthur Bulls and Wests Tigers.
Other opportunities:
Our school aims to provide the best opportunities for all our students. Some of the options include:
- Chess Club
- Game Design Challenge
- Music Group
- Cool Kids Music
- Sketch Club
- Art Competitions
- Koori Club
- Tasman Sea
- 3D Design Club
- Lego Club
- Kindergarten Transition Programs
- High School Transition Programs
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
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