High potential and gifted education
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
In our classrooms, the Creative domain is nurtured by providing students with opportunities to explore imagination, invention, and originality. We encourage innovative thinking through open-ended projects, the arts, and problem-solving tasks that allow students to express their unique ideas and creativity.
The Intellectual domain is supported through activities that develop critical thinking, reasoning, and the transfer of knowledge. Our programs challenge students to engage deeply with concepts, encouraging understanding beyond memorisation to application and analysis across subject areas.
Physical abilities in the Physical domain are fostered through a variety of sports, movement activities, and hands-on learning experiences that develop motor skills, coordination, and physical confidence. We value the role of physical development as part of each student’s holistic growth.
In the area of Social-emotional development, we provide structured opportunities for students to build self-management skills and positive relationships. Through collaborative learning, peer interaction, and social-emotional learning programs, students develop empathy, communication, and leadership abilities.
Across our school
At Collaroy Plateau Public School, we recognise that every student brings a unique blend of natural abilities that fall within four broad domains of potential, as described in Françoys Gagné’s adapted Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT 2.0, 2009). These domains guide how we create opportunities in the classroom to support and challenge all students, including those with high potential and giftedness.
At Collaroy Plateau Public School, we understand that potential exists on a continuum, and each student’s needs vary. Our teaching approaches are flexible and responsive, ensuring that adjustments and targeted interventions are in place to support every learner’s growth across these interconnected domains. We are committed to creating an inclusive, engaging, and stimulating classroom environment where all students can thrive and reach their full potential.
Across NSW
Premier’s Challenges
Our school participates in a range of Premier's Challenges to foster the talents and interests of our students.
These include:
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Premier's Reading Challenge
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Premier's Multicultural Public Speaking Competition
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Premier's Debating Challenge
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Premier's Spelling Bee
Band and Music ensembles
Our school offers a range of band and music ensembles. Our school strongly believes that being involved with the learning of music offers significant cognitive benefits, including enhanced memory, improved attention, and strengthened thinking skills, as well as prompting mental health.
Collaroy Plateau Public School has a very successful Band program run by the P&C Band sub-committee. Currently there are four bands. Children in Year 3 have the opportunity to join the Training Band and graduate to the Concert, Performance Band and Jazz Band. Year 2 children have the opportunity to join the New Recruits in Term 4 as an introduction to the band program. Practices and tutorials are held each week, either before and/or after school and sometimes at lunchtime. The bands perform at school events and assemblies, festivals and competitions throughout the year, as well at community events such as The War Vets for their Anzac Day ceremony. Our Band P&C committee organise events for the students to attend throughout the year to provide extra practise and performance opportunities such as Band Workshops, The Band bash and Showcase Nights.
Collaroy Plateau Public School we also have both a Years K-2 Choir and a Years 3-6 Glee Club. Both these groups are run by enthusiastic teaching staff with a passion for music, particularly singing. The students rehearse with a teacher one lunch time a week and perform at school assemblies and events such as our schools Open Day, Remembrance Day assembly and the annual Drama Club Performance.
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
Student opportunities and activities
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Learning
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Why choose us?
Collaroy Plateau Public School is a Kindergarten to Year 6, Comprehensive, Coed Primary School in Collaroy Plateau. We are proud to be part of a strong public education system and welcome students from all backgrounds and cultures.
Our vision: Collaroy Plateau Public School has a dynamic and positive learning culture focused on high expectations for student wellbeing, engagement and achievement through evidence based teaching and reflective practices. Our school expectations of respect, responsibility and personal best underpin our everyday practices. We believe in fostering students' joy and curiosity in learning and challenging every student to reach their potential. Effective partnerships with our community promote inclusivity and respect, empowering all students to be self-directed learners who are known, valued and cared for. There is a collective ambition to ensure our students connect, succeed and thrive as independent and resilient lifelong learners who contribute to the wider community.
Contact us to find out if Collaroy Plateau Public School is the right choice for your child's education. Enrol today and join an inclusive community that values learning, growth and success!
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Why families choose us
A strong start
We help every child feel safe, included and confident from their very first day.
Support for every family
Our teachers and learning and wellbeing support teams work with our families. We co-design plans that help students learn in the way that works best for them.
High quality education
We offer our students a wide range of subjects and opportunities. This empowers them to learn, develop skills, and discover their passions.
Easy to access
Located in Collaroy Plateau, our school is easy to access by public transport, walking or driving. This makes every day at school more convenient for our families.
What we can offer your child
Student success
Our school provides a high-quality, low-cost education that supports every child’s growth. We’re proud of our students’ success in learning, competitions and life beyond school.
- participation in a range of competitions
- success in life beyond school
- active community members
- growth through high potential and gifted education
- striving for personal improvement.
A world of opportunities
We offer a wide range of programs and experiences to help them thrive. From STEM and sport to the creative arts and more, our broad curriculum encourages curiosity and critical thinking.
- excursions
- incursions
- extra-curricular activities
- a wide variety of subjects.
Tailored learning support
We know every child learns in their own way. That’s why we provide tailored learning support to help each student do their best. Our programs meet different student needs. This includes high potential and gifted students, students with additional needs or disability, and those who need wellbeing support. At our school, your child will get the support they need to succeed.
- student learning support officers (SLSO) in the classroom
- teaching and learning adjustments
- extension activities for students who need extra challenge
- wellbeing and counselling support.
A welcoming community
Our school is a place where students from all backgrounds feel safe, respected and part of the community. We value diversity and fairness. Your child will learn and grow in a school that celebrates who they are. We prepare students to be confident, well-rounded global citizens.
- supporting students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D)
- celebrating Harmony Day
- incorporating culturally inclusive school events
- ensuring cultural safety for all students.
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