High potential and gifted education
At Seven Hills North Public School, we recognise that some students learn faster and more easily than others. Our practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) policy, which highlights the importance of supporting giftedness across four essential domains:
- Creative Domain: Supporting students to develop original ideas and express themselves through creative thinking, problem-solving, and artistic pursuits.
- Intellectual (Cognitive) Domain: Offering challenging learning experiences that nurture advanced thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual development.
- Physical Domain: Encouraging physical growth and wellbeing through activities that improve coordination, health, and physical skills.
- Social-Emotional Domain: Promoting emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social interactions to support the wellbeing of gifted learners.
Our dedicated teachers and leaders engage in ongoing, evidence-informed HPGE professional learning to recognise and nurture the strengths of our advanced learners. Through differentiated and enriching lessons, targeted extension activities, and inclusive opportunities, we empower high potential students to grow in confidence, extend their abilities, and thrive both in and beyond the classroom.
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 High Potential Gifted Education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
At Seven Hills North Public School, HPGE is embedded in our everyday practice. We challenge our students to think critically, create with purpose, lead with confidence, and grow as lifelong learners.
- 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.
- Staff regularly use differentiated tasks within their programming and teaching that adjust pace, tasks and complexity.
- Flexible groupings for collaborative ideation and presentation, targeted learning goals, and strengths-based feedback is used to cater to individual learning profiles.
- 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
We offer a wide range of enrichment programs designed to inspire students to pursue their passions and potential. These opportunities support personal growth, creativity, teamwork, and leadership across a variety of areas.
Some of the programs students can get involved in include:
- Public Speaking
- STEM programs and projects
- Band and choirs
- Visual Arts and drama showcases
- School sports teams and carnivals
- House competitions and team events
- Dance and drama groups
- Student leadership opportunities (SRC)
- Peer mentoring and buddy programs
- Wellbeing and personal development programs
- Digital Leadership
- Chess Club
- Science Club
- Coding Club
- Primary School Sports Association (PSSA) Inter-school sports
- Excursions and Incursions
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
Students participate in opportunities such as:
- Premier’s Reading Challenge
- Premier’s Spelling Bee
- Premier’s Sporting Challenge
- Band Together Festival
- Blacktown Festival of Performing Arts
- Department of Education’s Festival of Choral Music
- Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA
- Amazon STEM
Public Speaking Competition Blacktown Learning Communities
At our school, public speaking is more than just a skill: it’s a tradition of excellence.
We offer numerous opportunities for students to develop and showcase their skills through competitions both within the classroom and across the wider school community.
These competitions challenge participants to craft and deliver persuasive and inspiring speeches, showcasing their creativity and intellect.
This year, Harvey Eyles proudly represented Seven Hills North PS at the Blacktown Learning Community Public Speaking Competition and won the Year 4 competition.
Festival of Choral Music
At Seven Hills North Public School, we pride ourselves in providing opportunities for talent development to optimise the growth and achievement of our students.
Our school's senior choir group is a regular participant in the annual Festival of Choral Music, organised by The Arts Unit at the Department of Education.
Our students have the opportunity to sing high-quality repertoire as a massed choir and perform alongside state level ensembles at the Sydney Opera House.
This magnificent opportunity allows our students to develop their musical skills, build confidence, and experience the joy of performing on one of the world’s most prestigious stages.
Cyrus, NSW PSSA Boys Basketball Championship
Primary School Sports Association (PSSA) sports offer our students a fantastic opportunity to develop their skills, teamwork, and sportsmanship while proudly representing their school, zone, region or state.
We are excited to celebrate the outstanding achievements of Cyrus, who competed as part of the NSW PSSA Boys Basketball team at State Championships for the Sydney West Region. Cyrus’s success highlights his dedication and skill as well as Seven Hills North Public School’s commitment to supporting exceptional sporting opportunities for our students.
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.