High potential and gifted education
At Redhead School, we recognise that every student learns differently and many show early strengths in areas such as creativity, critical thinking, leadership and sport. Our ASPIRE Program (Accomplish, Success, Persistence, Innovation, Resilience, Excellence) is a whole-school initiative designed to nurture these talents and extend our high-potential and gifted learners.
Through differentiated classroom practices, enrichment activities, individualised acceleration, targeted withdrawal lessons, competitions, tailored programs and mentoring, we provide meaningful opportunities for students to be challenged and inspired.
ASPIRE supports the “whole learner,” focusing on intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical development. Students are encouraged to become self-directed, reflective learners who strive to reach and exceed their potential. This is achieved through targeted groupings, skill-building, portfolio learning and participation in a wide range of school and co-curricular programs.
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.
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking
- Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning
- Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility, and control
- Opportunities to take on leadership roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance
- Debating
- STEM and coding clubs
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking workshops
- School musicals
- Music ensembles
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Creative writing groups
- Sport squads
- House competitions
- Peer mentoring
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives
- Gardening Club
- Cross country, athletics and Swimming carnivals
- Art Club
- Choir
- The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking
- Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration
- The Schools Spectacular is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration
- Public Speaking Competitions builds confidence, communication skills, critical thinking, and leadership, while improving vocabulary and research abilities
- Premiers Reading Challenge benefits students by fostering a lifelong love of reading for pleasure
- APSMO maths challenges challenges benefit NSW students by boosting critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills through engaging, non-traditional maths problems, fostering teamwork, perseverance, and enthusiasm for maths
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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