High potential and gifted education
At Baradine Central School, we are committed to the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) Policy, which ensures that students with high potential across all areas of ability are identified, supported and challenged to thrive. The policy recognises that students may demonstrate high potential — and the capacity for gifted performance - in one or more of four domains: intellectual, creative, social emotional and physical.
Our HPGE process includes a continuous cycle of assessment, identification, planning, implementation and evaluation, ensuring that all students with potential and gifts are recognised and extended across all four domains.
Through enrichment, extension, and extra-curricular opportunities, we provide engaging pathways to coach talent, build confidence and develop capabilities that prepare students for high school and life beyond.
Baradine CS HPGE opportunities include:
Intellectual
- Access to science experiments and cooking lessons
- Engaging in technology and digital literacy activities
- Involvement in extension or support programs including: Aurora, ICAS Assessments
- Robotics – Stage 5
Physical
- Participation in physical education classes
- Intensive swimming scheme term 4
- Zone trials for representative teams
- Gala Days
- External providers including Cricket, Squash, Taiko Drums, Dancing.
- Gardening and animal care
Social Emotional
- Participation in The Resilience Project
- Student Leadership including School Leaders, Student representative Council, and Sports Captains.
- Fundraising and volunteering
Creative
- Involvement in visual arts and craft activities
- Participation in Moorambilla Voices.
- Engagement in creative writing
- Cooking and Industrial Tech lessons
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.
- Summartive assessment throughout units
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- 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 presentation.
- 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.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement various subjects.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- Positive Behaviour for Learning program
- The Resilience Project
- SAKG - Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
- STEM and coding classes
- CWA competition
- Young Leaders Camp in the Warrumbungles
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- School presentation performances
- Visual arts showcases
- Sporting Teams
- House competitions Kurra and Wilga
- Swimming, athletics and cross country reaching state levels.
- Performance-based movement groups
- Primary and Secondary school leaders
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- STEM enrichment program
- Koala's and others Projects through Warrumbungle EEC
- Moorambilla Voices is an exciting local program that gives our students an opportunity to sing and perform on a live stage.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- 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.
Koalas and Others Project
Through Warrumbungle EEC - students are involved in collecting data of different animal species visiting the drinking trough.
Stage 5 Computing Studies - Robotics
Students designed, built and progrrammed an automonous robot that will direct itself through a maze created by students.
Wellbeing lessons
We have regular wellbeing lessons that focus on building students self-esteem, communication, team work and social skills.
This activity involved students forming a human knot and having to work together to untangle themselves.
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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