High Potential and Gifted Education

At Narromine High School, we support students who show special talents and abilities in four important areas: creative, thinking skills, physical skills, and social and emotional skills. Our High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) program helps these students to grow and do their best.

What We Believe

We want every student to have the chance to develop their talents and enjoy learning in many ways.

How We Find and Help Students

Teachers, test results, and observations help us find students with high potential. Once found, we provide learning activities that match their talents and interests.

What Students Do in the Program

Students take part in different activities that help their skills grow:

Creative Activities: Dancing with Dinawans Connection, performing in the NSW Schools Spectacular, joining PULSE ALIVE events, and being part of the Art Program where students explore painting, drawing, and other art forms.
Thinking Skills: Joining in local and regional public speaking competitions that challenge a student's academic work to build their thinking and communication skills.
Physical Activities: Taking part in sports at regional and state levels and being involved in targeted sports programs. Our Targeted Sport Talent Development program is designed to help students with strong sporting abilities reach their full potential. Through specialised coaching, training sessions, and participation in regional and state competitions, students develop their skills, fitness, and teamwork. This program encourages students to excel in their chosen sports while balancing their academic goals. We provide ongoing support to nurture talent and promote a healthy, active lifestyle.
Social and Emotional Skills: Leading and joining groups like the Student Representative Council (SRC), Narromine Shire Youth Council, and GRIP Leadership workshops. These roles help build confidence, teamwork, and leadership. Students also take part in mentoring and wellbeing activities.

Help for Senior Students

For students in Years 11 and 12, we offer special tutoring to help them prepare for their final exams (HSC). This support includes extra lessons, study tips, and help with subjects.

What Makes Our Program Special

We give students learning activities that match their talents.
Students get to join workshops, competitions, and special lessons.
We support students to be leaders and work well with others.
We work with universities, local groups, and sports clubs to give more chances to learn and grow.

Our Teachers

Our teachers are trained to support high potential students and keep learning new ways to help them grow.

Get Involved

Narromine High School is proud to help students with special talents to learn and grow in many ways. If you want to know more about the HPGE program, tutoring, the Art Program, or leadership opportunities like the SRC and Narromine Shire Council Youth Council, please contact us.

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

Narromine High School creates a supportive and stimulating environment where high potential and gifted students can thrive and develop into confident, capable individuals. Our program offers potential selective high school students the high academic standard they are seeking, but in a setting which is co-educational, socially cohesive and community focused.

Our school follows the explicit teaching where we foster critical thinking and problem-solving strategies providing opportunities for abstraction, inquiry, and curriculum depth.
Our classes have structured peer collaboration and reflection where strengths-based feedback and goal setting are part of learning process.
We provide supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment creating a safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking, and perseverance.
Classes have differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity and higher-order thinking followed by formative assessment to monitor growth and adapt learning.

Across our school

Our school recognises that every student is individual, and we provide flexible and diverse opportunities for students to explore and grow their strengths outside the classroom.

All our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles through student representative council leadership, mentoring programs and peer coaching and leadership of major events including ANZAC, Remembrance Day and NAIDOC assemblies.

Across NSW

Our students continues to participate in many competitions including gala days, combined high schools knock out competitions and selection through to zone, regional and state carnivals.