High Potential and Gifted Education Policy
Rationale
The NSW Government is committed to high quality educational outcomes for all high potential and gifted students and the provision of an appropriate curriculum to meet these students’ needs within the school education system. High Potential and Gifted Education (HGPE) may include students from all socio, economic, ethnic and cultural groups as well as students with disabilities or students at risk. High potential and gifted students can be identified under one or more of the following domains: intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical.
Killarney Heights Public School is committed to providing rich programs to develop skills in critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration and technology to enable all students to reach their full potential academically, socially and emotionally. Our goal is to support students to reach their educational capacity by trying to lift their engagement, improve their academic achievement, and enhance their wellbeing. The policy has been developed to optimise student wellbeing and achievement across four domains. Our staff ensure that all students find school a secure, happy and challenging adventure.
Aim
Our aim as the High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) committee at KHPS is to:
- encourage the achievement of personal excellence in all students
- translate high potential in a specific domain (intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical) into high performance in order to achieve personal excellence
- narrow the excellence gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students
- raise student and parent awareness of the opportunities and challenges facing students with high potential
- identify students who are gifted or show high potential to ensure that the school caters for their individual needs
- provide support to teachers to ensure differentiation occurs for all students.