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.

Coutts Crossing Public School fosters a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent.

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.

In our classroom

At Coutts Crossing Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.

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.
Groups are flexible, students take lead roles, and feedback is strengths-based with clear goals and self-assessment.
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners

Across our school

Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.

Students deepen strengths and critical thinking opportunities, STEM and coding pathways like Lego, Coding and Robotics Clubs.
Talent is celebrated through a variety of means, such as Smalls Schools Big Impact Concert, Big River Film Festival, Chess and Writing Competitions, Compass Choir, Spelling Bees, Public Speaking, assemblies, performances and activities put on for our community throughout the year.
Leadership grows through our large Leadership Team consisting of School Captains and Vice Captains, Sport House Captains, SRC, Library and Tech Monitors, mentoring buddy program.
Daily life invites curiosity and belonging, with open Library at lunch times and Gardening Club, along with our Cultures and Clubs program that operates throughout the year.
Sport matters too, with Gala Days, PSSA sport, training, coaching, house competitions and play ground activities led by our House Captains.

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.

Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
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.
Australian Sports Commission, Sporting Schools Program, designed to help schools to increase children's participation in sport, and to connect them with community sporting opportunities.