High potential and gifted education (HPGE)

We encourage students to explore and extend their natural physical abilities through fully funded programs, including:

• Accelerated Student Athlete Program – Stage 3 Talented Football Program in conjunction with coaching staff from Bossley Park High School
• Athletics coaching
• Gymnastics sessions
• Inter-school sport opportunities - PSSA Summer and Winter Gala Days
• The Premier's Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning

These initiatives challenge students to build physical skills, resilience, and teamwork, while celebrating achievement in sport and movement.

Leadership, self-management, collaboration, and emotional awareness are vital skills. Our social-emotional development includes:

• Student-led leadership roles (Student Representative Council, peer mentoring, BEAT attendance team leaders
• Student-facilitated social-emotional groups promoting wellbeing and peer connection, including peer support program and Lego Club
• Real-world leadership through community partnerships
• Environment and Gardening Club, where students grow, cook, and/or sell produce to the community

This domain supports students to thrive academically and socially, fostering confidence and agency.

We value imagination and expressive talent through programs such as:

• Fully funded dance programs including performance opportunities
• A comprehensive visual arts curriculum
• Photography Club
• Choir (Years 2-6)
• Production Team
• Assyrian Dance Group

These pathways enable students to translate creativity into celebrated achievements, including success in external competitions.

For students with advanced intellectual potential, we offer enrichment fostering inquiry, innovation, and technological fluency:

• High Potential Literacy Groups (Stage 2 and 3)
• The Premier's Spelling Bee promotes vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings
• Cowpasture Public Speaking Competition (Years 3-6)
• Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) encourages students to develop a lifelong love of reading, improve their literacy skills, and build confidence through engaging with a wide variety of books
• HPGE Italian and Spanish language programs (Stage 2 and 3)
• Lego Club — design, investigation, and problem-solving activities
• Culture Club for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and buddies
• Leadership By The Cowpasture — Year 6 project development and networking with local schools

These opportunities extend thinking, challenge innovation, and connect learning with today’s world.

At Bossley Park Public School, opportunities and activities for High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) are thoughtfully integrated into our classrooms to nurture and challenge our students' unique talents. Our educators employ differentiated teaching strategies and provide enriched learning experiences that cater to the diverse needs of high potential and gifted learners. Through a variety of engaging activities, collaborative projects, and extension tasks, we aim to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, and a love of learning, ensuring every student can reach their full potential. Opportunities to develop HPGE students in our classrooms include:

• Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking
• Formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning​
• Explicit teaching of critical thinking and problem-solving strategies
• Tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical thinking including cross-curricular projects
• Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment
• Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation
• Targeted learning goals for student agency
• Strengths-based feedback and goal setting
• Opportunities for leadership within the classroom
• Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking and perseverance

• School performances with dance and drama
• Visual arts competition
• Sport gala days
• Student leadership (SRC)
• Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives

• Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) encourages students to develop a lifelong love of reading, improve their literacy skills, and build confidence through engaging with a wide variety of books
• The Premier's Spelling Bee promotes vocabulary development and attention to detail in competitive settings
• Participation in the Liverpool/Fairfield Elevated Culture Festival showcasing our creativity through cultural dance