High potential and gifted education
Some students learn faster and 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 programs in the arts, sport, leadership and more.
Opening doors to wider experiences
Our students can participate in a wide range of state-wide programs 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.
Learn more about HPGE at https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/high-potential-and-gifted-education
Our students can take part in HPGE opportunities in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
At Kyogle Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. We challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day.
- 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.
- 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
Every student is individual, so the opportunities we offer are flexible and diverse.
- Students deepen strengths through various incursions and excursions, competitions, critical thinking workshops, and STEM and coding pathways in clubs such as Tech Group.
- Talent is celebrated through school concerts and showcases, our Academic Expo, Junior and Senior Dance, Far North Coast Dance Festival, Choir, Local Performing Arts Festivals, Public Speaking competitions, along with opportunities to run school assemblies both on stage and via the media room.
- Leadership grows through SRC, Year 6 Leaders, mentoring and buddy coaching, and wellbeing is made visible with our GRIP Leadership excursion, Sista Speak Program and collaboration programs between Stage 3 & Kindergarten.
- Daily life invites curiosity and belonging, with our Open Library, Garden & Crochet clubs at lunch.
- Sport matters too! With PSSA sport, training and coaching that include differentiated Physical Education, as well as talent pathways from school level through to state level opportunities in many individual and team sports.
Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.
- Students participate in opportunities such as DoE Arts Unit Creative Arts Camp & The Arts Unit Dance, Premier’s Spelling Bee & Premier’s Sporting Challenge.
- Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high potential and gifted students, and we help with entries.
Kyogle Public School Academic Expo - The Academic Expo is a program that aims to encourage academic endeavour and recognise individual talents in several different categories.
The list of categories for the 2025 Academic Expo:
- Digital Animation
- Instrumental (Solo)
- Writing
- Reading and Australian Verse
- Public Speaking
- Visual Arts
-Performing Arts
Judging is conducted by judges sourced from within the local Kyogle community, with a keen interest or expertise in the category they are assigned.
Student works are judged in stage groups (i.e.: Early Stage 1, Stage 1, Stage 2 & Stage 3).
The Premier’s Spelling Bee - The Premier's Spelling Bee is an engaging way for NSW public primary school students to expand their vocabularies and improve their spelling. Designed for Stage 2 and 3, Stage 1 students are welcome to participate.
The program includes activities that encourage students to become more confident users of language through broadening their vocabulary, and promotes improved literacy skills in conjunction with the NSW English K to 10 syllabus.
One junior and one senior student represent their school at regional finals. One junior and one senior speller from each regional will then go on to State finals.
Dance Ensembles - Each year Kyogle Public School participates in The Arts Unit's Far North Coast Dance Festival, which involves over 1,000 students from public, primary and high schools in the Tweed, Murwillumbah, and Lismore districts.
Students from Kyogle Public School also have the opportunity to apply for the Far North Coast Junior Ensemble, through The Arts Unit. The Far North Coast Junior Dance Ensemble is for talented dance students from NSW public schools in Year 5 to Year 7. This ensemble is aimed at high potential dance students who display a high level of technical skill and performance quality and wish be involved in the choreographic process to create, learn and perform a dance work at the Far North Coast Dance Festival.
In 2025 a Kyogle Public School student was successful in her application to the FNC Junior Dance Ensemble, with which she participated in several dance festivals, competitions and at the NSW State Dance Festival in Sydney.
Sport - At Kyogle Public School we offer students participation in PSSA trials for many sports including, but not limited to Rugby League, Rugby Union, Cricket, Soccer, Touch Football, Netball, & Basketball.
KPS has seen very successful results from many of our students throughout the years, individuals being selected for state representative teams, and some of our school teams making it through to the finals in state knockout competitions.
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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