High potential and gifted education
At Briar Road Public School, every learner’s potential is our priority. Our teachers find potential and nurture our students to be the best they can be.
Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful. High potential and gifted education is delivered in-class, across the whole school and department wide. Briar Road Public School has a variety of supports available for students through a range of high potential and gifted opportunities across the four domains of creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional
Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?
Briar Road Public School is recognised for our excellence in teaching. The school has featured in Australian Education Research Organisation's (AERO) publications including the Classroom Management Practice Guide and Teaching for How Students Learn - Explicit Teaching Guide. Briar Road Public School have won numerous awards for our commitment and achievement in supporting the cultural needs of our students and creating a safe and inclusive environment. The school offers a broad range of extra curricular activities where all students are supported to achieve their potential. The school staff are a highly trained and talented and offer the expertise to support all students.
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 growth and development.
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.
At a Classroom level, High Potential and Gifted Education is supported through:
- Evidence informed practice in line with cognitive science
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting
- Choir
- Dance Group
- Kapa Haka Group
- Drumming
- Art Club
- NAIDOC and Reconciliation Art Showcases
- Aboriginal Dance Group
- Minecraft club
- Gala Days (Primary)
- Dharawal Languages
- Tasman Sea – Te Reo Maori
- Premier’s Spelling Bee
- Premier Sporting Challenge
- Junior AECG Aboriginal Leadership
- Campbelltown Zone, Metropolitan Southwest Sydney and NSW State sports opportunities
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.