High potential and gifted education

At Goulburn South Public School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many of our students demonstrate high potential, and we help that potential grow into something powerful.

• Teachers identify students’ learning needs using ongoing formative assessment and adjust pace, complexity, and challenge to extend every learner. Evidence-informed practices guide differentiated tasks that build higher-order thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving. Students engage in advanced learning pathways through enrichment, extension, and opportunities for compacted or accelerated content.
• Our supportive classrooms promote belonging and encourage confidence, creativity, and appropriate risk-taking. Learning experiences include authentic, cross-curricular projects that allow for student choice, abstraction, and curriculum depth. Flexible grouping supports collaboration, ideation, and presentation, with students regularly taking lead roles and engaging in structured peer reflection.
• In PDHPE, differentiated movement tasks and targeted goals help refine coordination, agility, and control, with opportunities for students to demonstrate skills and contribute to team strategy.
• Strengths-based feedback, self-assessment, and clear learning goals empower students to understand their growth and set new directions for their learning.
• Our teachers continually engage in professional learning to meet the diverse needs of all students, including those with high potential and giftedness, ensuring every learner is challenged, supported and able to thrive.

Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.

• Each learner brings individual strengths, and our BEEYOND key learning area program provides flexible, diverse opportunities for students to extend, create and lead.

• Students extend their academic strengths through debating, public speaking, chess club, technology and coding lessons and buddy reading, with structured opportunities to deepen critical thinking, communication and problem solving.

• Creative talents are nurtured through school dance group, choir, drama showcases and participation in Operation Art, providing avenues for performance, expression and artistic growth.

  Talent and culture are further celebrated through First Nations dance workshops, Goulburn Community of Primary Schools choir, dance and whole school events that highlight student voice and performance.

• Leadership is actively developed through SRC, Year 6 student leaders, the Sports Leadership team, The Bee Team and targeted programs such as GRIP Leadership. Students take on meaningful roles that build confidence, contribution and agency.

• Wellbeing sits at the centre of our approach, strengthened through evidence-based programs such as Rock and Water, Berry Street, Choice Theory, restorative practice and Social Emotional Learning. These consistent frameworks build students’ emotional literacy, resilience and capacity to form positive relationships.

• Sport is a strong feature of school life, with PSSA gala days, representative opportunities and house competitions that encourage teamwork, resilience and challenge.

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

• The Premier’s Spelling Bee promotes our students’ vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings.
• The Premier’s Debating Challenge helps our students to build logical arguments and confidence in public speaking.
• The Premier's Reading Challenge inspires high potential students to deepen their passion for reading, enhance advanced literacy skills, and expand their critical thinking through exploring diverse and challenging texts.
• The Premier’s Sporting Challenge and the Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at regional, state and national levels, fostering discipline, commitment and collaboration.
• Participation in the Southern Tablelands Dance Festival hones our students’ dance skills, discipline and ensemble awareness.