High potential and gifted education

At Miranda Public School, we are committed to ensuring that every student has access to learning programs that meet their needs and inspire them to strive for personal excellence. Guided by the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE Policy, we recognise that High Potential and Gifted students come from all cultural, linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Our motto, “Growing Together, Learning Forever,” reflects our belief that every child deserves the opportunity to shine. High Potential and Gifted students are present in every classroom, and we are proud to nurture their unique talents through evidence-based practices that extend and challenge their learning while supporting their overall wellbeing.

High Potential

High potential students demonstrate abilities that exceed those of their peers of the same age in one or more domains. Their potential may be identified as above the expected range in areas such as intellectual, creative, social-emotional or physical domains. These students may benefit from enriched or extended curriculum opportunities and learning experiences that go beyond what is typically offered at their stage of schooling.

Gifted

Gifted students show potential that significantly exceeds that of their peers of the same age in one or more domains. They often require a differentiated curriculum, providing opportunities that are significantly more challenging than what is typically provided for students at the same age level.

Highly Gifted

Highly gifted students demonstrate potential that vastly exceeds the abilities of their age peers. To meet their academic and wellbeing needs, they often require specific, targeted, and more significant curriculum adjustments. Their learning programs may involve personalised pathways and additional support to ensure both their cognitive and social-emotional growth.

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

We are committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, ensuring every student has the opportunity to thrive at Miranda Public School.

In our classrooms students participate in:

differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking
explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies
supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment
structured peer collaboration and reflection
safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.

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Across our school

Intellectual Domain:

At Miranda Public School, we recognise and value the intellectual domain of potential, which relates to students’ natural abilities in processing information, reasoning, understanding, and transferring learning to new situations.

Students who demonstrate high potential in this domain may show strong verbal, numerical, logical, or spatial skills. They often excel in abstract thinking, synthesis and evaluation, problem solving, and make effective use of both long-term and working memory. Our role is to identify and nurture these abilities through targeted opportunities that extend and challenge their thinking, while ensuring their learning needs are met within a supportive environment.

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Social-Emotional Domain:

At Miranda Public School, we recognise the social-emotional domain of potential, which relates to students’ natural abilities in self-management, as well as relating to and interacting with others.

Students demonstrating high potential in this domain may display empathy, social confidence, perceptiveness, and the ability to influence or inspire those around them. They may show strong leadership qualities, eloquence, tact, and charisma. We nurture these strengths by providing opportunities for collaboration, leadership, and student voice, ensuring students develop the confidence and skills to contribute positively to our school and wider community.

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Physical Domain:

At Miranda Public School, we recognise the physical domain of potential, which refers to students’ natural abilities in muscular movement and motor control.

Students demonstrating high potential in this domain may show advanced skills in areas such as strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, reflexes, agility, coordination, and balance. We provide opportunities for these students to further develop their abilities through sport, physical activity, and movement-based learning, ensuring they are challenged, supported, and encouraged to reach their full potential.

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Creative Domain:

At Miranda Public School, we value the creative domain of potential, which relates to students’ natural abilities in imagination, invention, and originality.

Students who demonstrate high potential in this domain may show innovation, originality, and inventiveness in the way they organise ideas, images, words, sound, movement, or objects, including through digital media. We encourage these students to explore and express their creativity across a range of learning areas and co-curricular opportunities, fostering both their individual talents and their ability to contribute creatively to our school community.

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Across NSW

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

At Miranda Public School students have the opportunity to participate in:

the Premier's Spelling Bee - promoting our students' vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings
the Premier's Debating Challenge - helping our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking
Create (South) - an HPGE program for years 4-6 students in the arts through which students have the opportunity to work with teachers and industry professionals to enhance their skills by creating an original musical over four days of workshops and two performances.
Sutherland Shire Music Festival and other dance opportunities