High potential and gifted education (HPGE)
At Wee Waa High School, we recognise and nurture the diverse talents of every student. Our High Potential and Gifted Education approach provides rich opportunities for students to explore their strengths through targeted extension, creative challenge, and personalised learning.
Through engaging programs and differentiated teaching, students are supported to achieve their personal best, think critically, and pursue excellence in academic, creative, leadership, and physical domains. We encourage all learners to have high expectations, embrace challenge, and develop the confidence and skills to thrive in school and beyond.
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) supports every student to be challenged and engaged through rich learning opportunities. It helps identify and develop students' strengths across four domains and ensures high expectations, personalised teaching, and equity of access so all learners can pursue excellence.
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. We recognise that every student is an individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths.
- High expectations for all students
- Quality differentiated teaching and learning programs
- Explicit teaching across all subjects
- Flexible learning groups
- Embedded 'Higher Order Thinking' activities
- Implementation of the 'What Works Best' framework
- HPGE talent identification and development
- Personalised Learning Pathways Plans for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
- Student Representative Council (SRC)
- Student Leadership Team (SLT)
- Sport house captains
- Senior student mentoring
- Homework centre
- Senior study group
- Quality transition to senior study program
- Show team
- School sporting teams
- Targeted HPGE extracurricular programs
- Wellbeing programs
- Knockout and individual sporting pathways
- Public speaking competitions
- National Youth Leaders Day
Our four specific extracurricular HPGE programs for Term 4 2025
The Creative Arts Program is designed to cultivate creativity, confidence, and excellence, inspiring young artists to think deeply, create boldly, and contribute meaningfully to their world.
The Creative Arts Program nurtures creative, critical, and reflective thinkers who demonstrate talent and passion for the visual arts. The program provides opportunities for students to extend their artistic skills, explore complex concepts, and develop authentic creative identities through specialised learning experiences that go beyond the standard curriculum. Students are challenged to refine technical and conceptual skills across diverse media, from traditional drawing and painting to digital and mixed-media forms, guided by practising artists and expert teachers.
The Rugby 7s Physical Education Program empowers young athletes to challenge their limits, lead others, and live healthy, active, and purposeful lives, fostering excellence, character, and pride in every movement.
The Rugby 7s Physical Education Program is designed to nurture students who demonstrate exceptional talent. motivation, and leadership in sport, health, and physical activity. This program provides an enriched and challenging environment that extends beyond the traditional PDHPE curriculum, to include an understanding of elite approaches to training and sporting concepts. Students are provided with specialised coaching, advanced skill development sessions, and access to expert mentors to refine technique, strategy, and performance that can be applied across a range of sports and physical activities.
The Newsletter Writing Program empowers students to become confident communicators, creative thinkers, and ethical storytellers, using their voices to connect, inform, and inspire their school community.
The Newsletter Writing Program celebrates and extends the talents of students who demonstrate talent in written communication, creativity, and critical thinking. Centred around producing the school’s official newsletter, the program provides authentic, real-world opportunities for students to write, edit, and publish content that informs, inspires, and connects the school community. Students refine their ability to write with purpose, accuracy, and flair when producing professional-quality articles, features, and editorials for a real audience of peers, staff, and families.
The High Potential and Gifted Youth Forum Program empowers young people to lead with purpose, think critically about the world around them, and use their voice to make a meaningful difference.
The Youth Forum Program is designed to empower young leaders to think critically, speak confidently, and create positive change in their communities. Through authentic, student-led discussion of key ideas and sharing opinions on important topics, participants explore contemporary issues, collaborate with peers, and develop communication and leadership skills essential for success in school and beyond. Students refine their public speaking, argumentation, and presentation skills in authentic settings, to engage effectively with complex local issues, analysing perspectives, generating innovative solutions, and articulating well-reasoned ideas in persuasive and ethical ways.
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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