High potential and gifted education (HPGE)

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.

In our classroom

At Manly West Public School, High Potential and Gifted Education is an integral part of everyday learning. We challenge our students to think deeply, create innovatively, lead confidently and grow continuously.
Teachers assess individual student learning needs and apply evidence-based teaching strategies to challenge and extend their capabilities. We offer diverse learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs.
Our supportive classroom environments foster a strong sense of belonging while encouraging risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
Learning tasks are designed to promote student choice, real world relevance, and creative and critical thinking skills.
Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Across our school

Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse, supporting growth across intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical domains.
Intellectual challenge is fostered through opportunities such as extension and enrichment groups; Public Speaking Competitions; Chess competitions; Debating competitions; and Poetry and Writing competitions.
Creative talent is developed through school opportunities such as the Training, Intermediate, Concert and Performance Bands; Open Choir and Back Street Boys Choir; Junior Girls, Senior Girls and Boys’ Dance Groups; Drama Groups; Public Speaking; and student roles in our technology team.
Creativity shines through showcases such as the Manly West School Production; K-2 and 3-6 Dance Expos; Northern Beaches Eisteddfod; Book Character Parade; and the Sydney North Dance Festival.
Leadership grows through the Student Representative Council (SRC), Year 6 Leadership Team, Year 5 Leadership Day, Year 5 Playground Monitors, Year 4 Activity Monitors, Year 4 Chicken Wranglers, The Green Team, Year 2 leading K-2 Assembly and the buddy program across the school.
Daily life invites curiosity and belonging, with Library, Quiet Spaces including the Garden Library, Kitchen Garden, Eco Garden, Yarning Circle plus clubs like Lego Club, Debating, Drama Clubs, Chill Zone, and activities such as Chess Club, Languages and Music lessons before and after school.
In the physical domain there are diverse school sport opportunities; including Year 2 Swim School program, interschool PSSA sport; representative pathways to zone, regional, state and national level competitions; swimming, cross-country and athletics carnivals

Across NSW

Every student is individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse, supporting growth across intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical domains.
Intellectual challenge is fostered through opportunities such as extension and enrichment groups; Public Speaking Competitions; Chess competitions; Debating competitions; and Poetry and Writing competitions.
Creative talent is developed through school opportunities such as the Training, Intermediate, Concert and Performance Bands; Open Choir and Back Street Boys Choir; Junior Girls, Senior Girls and Boys’ Dance Groups; Drama Groups; Public Speaking; and student roles in our technology team.
Creativity shines through showcases such as the Manly West School Production; K-2 and 3-6 Dance Expos; Northern Beaches Eisteddfod; Book Character Parade; and the Sydney North Dance Festival.
Leadership grows through the Student Representative Council (SRC), Year 6 Leadership Team, Year 5 Leadership Day, Year 5 Playground Monitors, Year 4 Activity Monitors, Year 4 Chicken Wranglers, The Green Team, Year 2 leading K-2 Assembly and the buddy program across the school.
Daily life invites curiosity and belonging, with Library, Quiet Spaces including the Garden Library, Kitchen Garden, Eco Garden, Yarning Circle plus clubs like Lego Club, Debating, Drama Clubs, Chill Zone, and activities such as Chess Club, Languages and Music lessons before and after school.
In the physical domain there are diverse school sport opportunities; including Year 2 Swim School program, interschool PSSA sport; representative pathways to zone, regional, state and national level competitions; swimming, cross-country and athletics carnivals