High potential and gifted education

In our classroom

At Roseville Public School, high potential and gifted education is embedded into daily instruction, where we nurture students’ abilities to develop their potential across the four domains: Intellectual, Social-Emotional, Creative and Physical. We understand that students may exhibit potential across any of these domains, or indeed across all four as they are inter-connected. We work hard to ensure that our classroom environments are supportive, providing students with opportunities to take risks with their learning. Some strategies we regularly adopt include:

● Differentiated and extension tasks that vary in pace, complexity, and promote higher-order thinking.

● Use of formative assessment to track progress and tailor learning experiences.

● Explicit instruction in critical thinking and problem-solving techniques.

● Flexible grouping to encourage collaboration, idea-sharing, and presentations.

● Where applicable, whole grade or specific subject acceleration.

● Cluster grouping of students who have been identified as HPGE.

Across our school

Opportunities evolve and change each year based upon individual areas of talent. However, some of our more common offerings include:

● A range of Intellectual based extra-curricula clubs such as: Debating, Chess, Critical Thinking workshops, Public Speaking, Coding, Robotics, Tournament of the Minds and Environment Kids,

● In the Creative domain we facilitate four dance groups, including a boys Hip Hop group, Senior and Junior Choirs, a Year 2 recorder program, specialist art lessons delivered by a trained and highly acclaimed artist as well as an outstanding Band program which encompasses four major bands, a Drum Corp and a Wind ensemble.

● We develop leadership and social-emotional skills via our involved and proactive Student Representative Council, our Year 6 Leadership roles and our well-established Year 6/Kindergarten Buddy program.

● We also have a strong sport program which provides a plethora of opportunities to develop and excel in the Physical domain. A range of popular sports are played against local schools in the Ku-ring-gai PSSA competition. These are supplemented by our internal Cross Country, Swimming and Athletics Carnivals as well as our Gymnastics and School Sport program.

Across NSW

Our students participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich their potential. These include:

● The Premier’s Spelling Bee

● The Premier’s Debating Challenge

● The School Spectacular

● Bear Pit Public Speaking Competition

● Participation in the Sydney North and NSW Dance Festivals

● Participation in numerous external Band and Choir Festivals

● The Representative NSW School Sport Pathways, including regional, state and national competitions

● NSW Band Camp

● APSMO Maths Olympiad

● Operation Art – coordinated by the Children’s Hospital at Westmead

● Writing Competitions

● Premiers Multicultural Public Speaking Competition