Inspire – High potential and gifted education
Wilson Park School is committed to equitable access to quality education for all students, regardless of their background or circumstances. Strong school and community partnerships ensure the student is known, valued and cared for. School staff participate in an ongoing program of high impact professional learning to enhance their skills. Our processes identify the strengths and needs of individual students, crucial to ensuring every student participates fully and stays engaged in learning and school life.
At Wilson Park School, support gifted and high potential students with disability includes:
- focusing on strengths: staff, parents and carers identify student’s strengths, interests and high-potential areas are nourished, while addressing needs associated with disability.
- acknowledging both high potential and disability: we recognise both advanced abilities and disability, creating a unique combination of support and development for every student.
- explicit teaching: differentiated to extend the student's strengths and interests, through challenging projects, flexible pacing, varied ways of demonstrating understanding and opportunities for generalisation and development.
- emotional and social support: ensuring the learning environment is safe and supportive, addressing social-emotional needs of our students.
- individual and collective adjustments: providing additional support, modified resources, and differentiated instruction to meet the specific learning and wellbeing needs of every student.
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 gifted education (HPGE) recognizes that some students with disabilities have high potential areas, requiring a tailored approach that focuses on their strengths while providing necessary adjustments. These students may show exceptional abilities alongside their disability and need programs that address both their high potential and specific needs.
At Wilson Park School, we are proud to align our approach with the NSW Department of Education’s Inspire – High potential and gifted education (HPGE) policy, which recognises the diverse strengths and needs of gifted and high potential students. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive learning environment that challenges and extends all learners, ensuring they are engaged, motivated, and able to reach their full potential. Our programs are designed to identify and nurture giftedness across multiple domains, reflecting the Department’s emphasis on catering to the whole child. By embracing a broad view of giftedness, we aim to empower students with the skills to become lifelong learners.
Our approach focuses on four key domains:
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- Creative Domain: we provide opportunities for students to develop artistic expression, encouraging originality through diverse creative activities across multiple mediums and methods of expression.
- Intellectual Domain: we challenge students with enriching learning experiences that provide opportunities for functional skill development and generalisation across environments.
- Physical Domain: recognising the importance of physical development, we support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through a wide range of activities and sports both within the school and the wider community.
- Social-Emotional Domain: we prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of all students, developing self-regulation skills, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive whilst at school, within the wider community and beyond their schooling.
Our high potential and gifted education opportunities
Our students engage with HPGE education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.
- Assessment to identify areas of strength and needs, to monitor growth and adapt teaching and learning
- Explicit teaching of foundational and functional skills
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity, content and practice
- Tasks that promote choice and independence including cross-curricular projects.
- Individual targeted learning goals
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-expression.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence and perseverance.
- STEM and coding programs
- School music activities
- Drama activities
- Visual Arts
- Sporting programs
- Swimming programs
- Food Technology programs
- Wellbeing programs
- State level Boccia and 10 Pin Bowling though NSW School Sport.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- The Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) promotes a love of reading for leisure and pleasure and enables students to experience quality literature.
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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