High Potential and Gifted Education

At Lisarow High School, every learner's potential is our priority. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful. We support advanced learners with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.

Lisarow High School is proud to be part of the HPGE Partner School Program. This involves significant upgrades to facilities to expand learning opportunities for high potential and gifted students. These upgrades will include improvements to: Music Rooms; Visual Arts Rooms; TAS Faculties; Multi-purpose space, Fitness centre facilities, Dance studio; Sporting facilities; Agriculture hub and plot; Entrance enhancements.

Our school is committed to providing a challenging and supportive environment to help students achieve their potential in the creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional domains. The Partner School Program gives our school access to expert HPGE support and tailored resources. Our teachers are equipped to challenge and inspire every student, ensuring they thrive and consistently achieve their educational potential.

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

Lisarow High School fosters a supportive and stimulating environment where high potential and gifted students can thrive and develop into confident, capable individuals. We offer a high academic standard within a co-educational, socially cohesive, and community-focused setting. Committed to recognising and nurturing high potential and gifted students, Lisarow High School ensures every student has the opportunity to excel and grow through our everyday practice of HPGE.

Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.
Groups are flexible for collaboration and presentation, students take lead roles, and feedback is strengths-based with clear goals and self-assessment.
Students learn from tasks that promote choice, authenticity, and critical and creative thinking including cross-curricular projects.
When evidence shows a need for more, students are extended and have the opportunity to access advanced pathways.
We measure impact, not anecdotes, through student work, reflections and progress checks.
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.

HPGE talent identification, assessment and development

TAFE Taster Days
Young Archies
Enrichment program Stage 4
Sporting Tryouts
Open Auditions
Leadership Structure
Peer Support
Growing great teachers Student Leadership
Aboriginal dance
Public speaking and debating
Illuminate Challenge
Strive Lessons
Individualised TAS projects
Choice in assessment tasks to demonstrate strengths and understanding
HIFA across the school
Connection to real world relevance
Science Club
Central Coast Showcase
YIPA

Across NSW

Our students can participate in a wide range of state-wide programs that aim to extend and enrich student potential.

Duke of Edinburgh Award
Debating and Public Speaking Competitions
National School Aerobics
Lisarow High School continues to participate in a multitude of sporting competitions including gala days, knock out competitions and selection through to zone, regional and state carnivals

Extension Class

Challenge to achieve educational potential

Extension and extra curricular programs

Targeted extension opportunities

Project based learning

High expectations

Lisarow High School believes providing an extension Class is integral to the development of our high potential and gifted students. We aim to provide an education where students are supported and challenged to reach their academic goals and become leaders amongst their peers.

Extension Class Brochure

Sports Academy

Specialised coaching

Friendly games versing other schools

CHS knockout competitions across all academy sports

Fostering a spirit of co-operation and leadership

Lisarow High School is dedicated to empowering athletes to achieve their performance goals as well as upholding the tradition of good sportsmanship and fair play.

Sports Academy Brochure