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.
Our approach focuses on four key domains:
- Creative Domain: We provide opportunities for students to develop innovative thinking and artistic expression, encouraging originality and problem-solving through diverse creative activities.
- Intellectual Domain: We challenge students with enriched learning experiences that promote higher-order thinking, deep inquiry, and advanced knowledge across the curriculum.
- Physical Domain: We recognise the importance of physical development and support students in enhancing their coordination, health, and physical skills through targeted activities and sports.
- Social-Emotional Domain: We prioritise the emotional wellbeing and social development of gifted students, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and positive relationships to help them thrive within our school community.
Why choose us for your high potential or gifted child?
Recognising potential and developing talent
Our teachers find potential across the four domains of 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 enrichment and extension activities to keep learners excited and engaged.
Rich opportunities and activities
Students take part in opportunities to develop their talent towards their potential in academic, artistic, sporting and leadership endeavours.
Opening doors to wider experiences
Our students 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 embedding enrichment, extension and acceleration opportunities
- tailored support during lessons that stretch, challenge and inspire students' development
- access to a wide range of opportunities within the classroom, wider school community 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.
- 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.
- Opportunities for abstraction, inquiry and curriculum depth.
- Tasks that promote choice, authenticity and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
- Flexible grouping for collaborative ideation and presentation.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement in PDHPE.
- Targeted learning goals for coordination, agility and control.
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations or team strategy.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-assessment.
- Strengths-based feedback and goal setting.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom.
- Structured peer collaboration and reflection.
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence, risk-taking and perseverance.
- Debating
- STEM and coding programs
- STEM showcases
- Project oriented robotics educational initiatives
- Academic competitions
- Critical thinking programs
- School musicals
- Visual arts and drama showcases
- Sport teams
- Performance-based movement groups
- Central Coast Dance Festival
- Central Coast Choral Festival
- Star Struck performing arts extravaganza
- Peer mentoring
- Student voice representation
- Peer support initiatives
- Student Leadership opportunities
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
- Erina Learning Community HPGE opportunities.
- The New South Wales Virtual STEM Academy delivers innovative digital learning opportunities focusing on current, real-world challenges and research to enrich and enhance students learning.
- 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.
- Our STEM Enrichment Partnerships with industry and universities deepen our students’ intellectual curiosity while developing innovation and collaboration.
- State Dance Festival is an iconic performing arts event that celebrates the talents, diversity and creativity of students from across NSW public schools.
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- The Representative School Sport Pathway and PSSA events enable our students to trial and compete in sports at zone, regional and state levels, fostering discipline, teamwork, commitment and collaboration.
Grip Leadership Conference
Mentoring our Student Leadership Team to build their capacity to run initiatives within the school.
RoboCup Championships
Brisbania teams were successful in progressing through the regional and state championships to compete in the national RoboCup competition in Canberra.
National Science Week
Students showcased exceptional STEM skills in the National Science Week design challenge, showcasing their critical and creative thinking to students and the wider school community.
Premier's Debating Challenge
Student teams demonstrated their public speaking, teamwork and keen collaboration, organisational and analytical skills to compete in structured debates against schools from across the Central Coast.
HPGE Extension Opportunities
Students develop their critical and creative thinking via teamwork and mentoring in extension activities tailored to their interests and abilities.
Start Struck
Stage 2 and 3 dancers perform as part of the large scale dance ensemble in the annual Star Struck competition at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.
Representative School Sport Pathway
Students selected for Southern Central Coast Zone and Sydney North Regional teams to compete against teams from across New South Wales.
School sports representatives
Brisbania students represent our school across a range of sports.
Our Stage Three Boys team celebrate their undefeated run after winning the Central Coast OzTag Grand Final.
School sports representatives
Brisbania students represent our school across a range of sports.
Brisbania's Rugby League team were 2025 Sydney North grand finalists.
School sports representatives
Brisbania students represent our school across a range of sports.
The Brisbania Girls soccer team continue their run with another impressive win.
Erina Learning Community HPGE Creative Arts
Students were mentored by a local artist. They workshopped artistic techniques and researched the endangered regent honey-eater. Art works were displayed for public exhibition at Erina Fair.
Central Coast Dance Festival
The Brisbania Stage 1 dance group perform for the Central Coast Dance Festival at Laycock Street Theatre.
NSW Public Schools State Dance Festival
Brisbania's elite dancers selected for the regional ensembles perform at the State Dance Festival at the Seymour Centre in Sydney.
Central Coast Choral Festival
The Brisbania Choir perform at the Central Coast Choral Festival at the Wyong Art House with one of our talented singers performing an inspiring solo.
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact your child's class teacher to discuss how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
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