High potential and gifted education

Our practices align with the NSW Department of Education’s HPGE policy, which highlights the importance of supporting giftedness across four essential domains:

• Creative Domain: Supporting students to develop original ideas and express themselves through creative thinking, problem-solving, and artistic pursuits.
• Intellectual (Cognitive) Domain: Offering challenging learning experiences that nurture advanced thinking, deep inquiry, and intellectual development.
• Physical Domain: Encouraging physical growth and wellbeing through activities that improve coordination, health, and physical skills.
• Social-Emotional Domain: Promoting emotional resilience, self-awareness, and positive social interactions to support the wellbeing of gifted learners.

At Marton Public School, we are committed to supporting the growth of the whole child. We recognise the unique potential of every student and aim to nurture their development across all four domains, ensuring each learner is equipped to thrive.

Our teachers closely monitor students’ learning needs and use evidence-informed practices to both challenge and extend them. We offer a range of learning pathways, such as enrichment and extension to ensure students can progress at an appropriate pace.

Classrooms are designed to be supportive and inclusive, helping students feel a strong sense of belonging while encouraging creativity, collaboration and positive risk-taking. Grouping is flexible, students are given opportunities to take on leadership roles, and feedback is strengths-based, with clear goals and opportunities for self-reflection.

Our teachers also engage in ongoing professional learning to ensure they can meet the diverse needs of all learners, including students with high potential and those who are gifted.

At Marton Public School, we provide a diverse range of opportunities to support and extend our High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) students, both within the school and through broader community involvement. Our programs are designed to foster talent across multiple domains, offering meaningful pathways for students to thrive, grow, and engage beyond the classroom.

These opportunities include:

• Public speaking
• Premier’s Sporting Challenge
• Premier’s Reading Challenge
• STEM and tech groups
• Eco-warrior groups
• Academic competitions such as ICAS
• Chess club
• Choir and dance ensembles
• Performing and training bands
• Play Day drama groups
• Social emotional HPGE groups
• PSSA sport
• Regional and state sporting pathways
• Performance-based movement groups
• Peer mentoring
• Student leadership (SRC)
• Wellbeing programs such as Gotcha4Life
• Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives

Students at Marton Public School participate in a wide range of statewide programs to extend and enrich student potential.

• Students participate in opportunities such as NSW Debating, Poetry Slam and Public Speaking programs, Regional STEM challenges, CREATE performances and workshops, Creative workshops through The Arts Unit, Regional and state leadership programs, Student voice initiatives and forums, NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge, PSSA zone, regional and state pathways, Talent development clinics and academies.
• Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high-potential and gifted students, and we help with entries, preparation and reflection so every experience feeds back into learning.