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.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
- Debating including entry into the Premier's Debating Challenge
- Publics Speaking including entry into the Metropolitan South and Metropolitan South and West Public Speaking Competition
- STEM
- Game Changers
- Tournament of Minds
- Critical and creative thinking lunch club
- Year 6 Production
- K-2 Choir
- Senior Choir (years 3-6) including engagement in the Cantabile Choral Festival at Sydney Opera House
- Art Club including entry into the Waverley Council Art Prize
- Poetry Club including entry into the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Competition
- PSSA sport teams and carnivals - a pathway to sporting excellences at the zone, regional and state levels.
- House competitions
- Showcase Dance for years 1 and 3
- Buddy program
- Student leadership (SRC)
- Wellbeing programs including The Anxiety Project and Grow your Mind
- Relaxation club
- Garden Club
- Lego Club
- The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
- Involvement in the Game Changer Challenge empowers our students to solve future-focused problems using design thinking.
- 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.
Tournament of Minds
Congratulations to our students who competed in the Tournament of Minds Regional Competition. The Arts team was awarded an Honour Award, and the Social Science team received a Merit Award. These results reflect the creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills of our students. A big thank you to Ms Levi & Ms McRae for guiding and supporting our teams.
Lunch clubs
Students can engage in a wide variety of lunch clubs that enrich and extend their learning throughout the day. Each unique experience is lead by passionate and experienced teaching staff, providing an opportunity for students to explore and develop their individual talents in each of the domains.
Zone Athletics
Clovelly Public School proudly had 52 students represent the school at the Zone Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to all Clovelly students for securing second place overall as a school.
Senior Choir
This year, the Senior Choir engaged in the Cantabile Choral Festival on the stage of the Opera House.
Pictured competing at the Australian School Band Orchestra Festival at UNSW our School Band is run by a sub-committee of the P&C. The esteemed band program features three core ensembles:
- Year 3 Junior or “Training Band”
- Year 4 Intermediate Band
- Year 5/6 Senior Band
There is also an extension ensemble – the Stage Band that involves gifted students from Years 5 and 6. The Stage Band program places an emphasis on the art of improvisation.
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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