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.
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.
At Westmead Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. We strive to empower every learner to grow every day.
- Teachers identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students.
- 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 opportunities are flexible and diverse. At Westmead Public School, we offer a wide range of activities to extend students. This includes:
- Choirs
- A variety of dance groups including hip hop and Bollywood
- School band: training and senior
- Sporting opportunities including participation in Wanderer's Cup for Soccer, Netball gala days and our annual cup against Canley Vale PS in multiple sports
- Public Speaking- both Multicultural Perspectives and Met South Public Speaking competitions
- Premier's Reading Challenge
- Student Representative Council (SRC)
- Drama clubs
- Art clubs
- In 2025, 16 unique extra curricular groups contributed towards our annual performance night. This year we had over 200 unique students perform as part of our CAPA night spectacular on the professional Riverside Theatre stage.
Several of the opportunities provided at Westmead PS offer the opportunity to compete against students from other regions and even states in students' areas of passion and skill.
In 2025 some of our notable success has included:
-Akshitha in Year 5 qualified for the State Swimming carnival in the 50m backstroke
-Our senior boys soccer team qualified for the finals of the Wanderers Cup competing against the best teams from all of the different regions
-Advaith in Year 6 successfully advanced to the Metropolitan South and Metropolitan South and West Public Speaking Grand Final after being placed first in the Met South Regional Finals with his incredible speech on the Web of Automation.
-Our Premier's Debating team placed in the top 10 teams out of 1,140 teams across NSW who began the competition. This allowed our team to attend the State Camp finals where they received further skills development in a specialised debate focused setting and won 2 of their 4 debates against elite competition.
-Kiyan in Year 3 represented our zone in the regional athletics carnival in the 100m sprint.
-Ishaan in Year 3 represent our zone in the regional cross country in the 8/9 years boys category
-Vihaan in Year 6 and Siddharth in Year 4 progressed to the regional final of the Multicultural Public Speaking competition
-Our Bollywood dance group made it into the Synergy Dance Festival.
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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