High potential and gifted education programs
Gifted students are those whose potential is distinctly above average in one or more of the following areas of ability at school - intellectual, creative, social and physical.
Our High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) program provides these students with learning opportunities on top of the normal curriculum.
HPGE Art and Design
The High Potential Gifted Education Program for Art and Design (HPGEPAD) aims to provide students with a deeper understanding and knowledge of Art and Design as an opportunity for self-expression and exploration of the world as a source of ideas. Students investigate the world as a source of ideas to make artworks for an audience. Through this they will learn the value of art making and art appreciation, and the importance to the artist is the intention of the work for a specific audience. The students will learn how to engage with clients for their projects and work collaboratively to contribute to the school and the wider community.
HPGE Computer Science
The High Potential Gifted Education Computer Science program that is offered at Plumpton High School is internationally recognised and has been developed by the Carnegie Mellon Institute in the United States. The Computer Science course that has been developed aligns with the Australian Curriculum’s general capabilities. Students will be able to build capacity to understand, reference, apply and engage themselves into 21st century learning tools. Every student should learn how to program a computer because it teaches them how to think. Through experiential and collaborative tasks, students engage in processes of analysing, designing, producing, testing, implementing and evaluating software technology-based solutions.
HPGE Dance
The High Potential Gifted Education Program for Dance (HPGEPD) aims to provide students with a deeper understanding and knowledge of dance as an artform. The program will provide students with personal expression and enjoyment through dance, therefore learning about oneself, other people and the world and confirming cultural identity. Students will learn to value dance as a form of cultural expression related to cultural understanding, tradition, location, gender, social and technological issues.
HPGE Drama
The High Potential Gifted Education Program for Drama (HPGEPDR) encourages a cooperative approach to exploring the world through enactment. The collaborative nature of this artform engages students in a creative process of sharing, developing, and expressing emotions and ideas. It is a form of action in which students take on a role as a means of exploring both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of their world. They portray aspects of human experience while exploring the ways people react and respond to different situations, issues, and ideas. The program provides students with a high-quality performing arts education, with a focus on the development of a strong understanding of dramatic styles, techniques and performance skills and aims to educate, train, and prepare students for the study of drama in years 7-12.
HPGE Engineering Studies (STEM)
This High Potential Gifted Education program will offer students a high-quality engineering studies program. This program will focus on the design process, mechanisms, and software that will prepare students for further study in Industrial Technology – Engineering in Stage 5 (Years 9-10), Engineering Studies in Stage 6 (Years 11-12) and in preparation to study Engineering at University with the F1 in Schools Program equivalent to 2nd year university. This program is an exclusive program offered by Plumpton High School and will be taught by a qualified Department of Education engineering studies teacher.
HPGE Experimenting with STEM
The High Potential Gifted Education Program for Experimenting with STEM aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of STEM disciplines and to develop student’s capabilities across these areas. Students will be exposed to a range of theoretical and practical experiences with a focus on developing skills which can be applied across fields, including problem solving, creativity, critical analysis, initiative, communication skills, collaborative skills and independent thinking.
HPGE Forensic Science
The High Potential Gifted Education Forensic Science program aims to allow students to delve deeper into the career of a forensic chemist and biologist as well as explore technologies in forensics used in modern society using a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) approach. In doing so, they will acquire an understanding of scientific investigations, legal proceedings and will debunk myths portrayed in crime shows. This will allow students to perceive how a range of different forensic scientists work and how this field has developed over history as well as where it is headed for the future. They will be able to analyse the importance of the development of this field to its role in legal proceedings. Looking at the range of divisions of scientists involved in forensic science will give students an understanding of how a crime is solved in the real world in real time. The knowledge that they attain will give students an understanding of a career path in these fields
HPGE MAC Team
The Media and Communications (MAC) team is a new student led initiative at Plumpton High School. Under the guidance of our fantastic MAC teachers, students are responsible for publishing on the school website and social media platforms, as well as producing a school newspaper. They are provided with real life journalistic skills and opportunities and have access to our partners at the ABC
HPGE Music Performance
The High Potential Gifted Education Music Performance program exists to develop and refine student performance skills in a professional environment that caters to students of all year groups, abilities and walks of life. This program takes great care to cater lessons to each student’s abilities and interests, offering relevant and engaging musical knowledge and material in a variety of styles and instruments. Students will develop their practical skills while gaining confidence and developing quality performance skills. Students will participate in a range of performance opportunities from performing in front of their peers, to working their way up to a live audience at school and community events.
HPGE Robotics
Our High Potential Gifted Education Robotics program aims to provide students with deep knowledge and comprehensive exposure to Mechanical, Mechatronics and Software Engineering Systems, building on their knowledge of Science and Mathematics. Better understanding of Science and Mathematics allows an individual to make better decisions, develop better judgement, logically approach problems and hence to better enjoy everything that life has to offer. Students will be developing skills in assembly of mechanical parts which will develop interests which they might not have otherwise had. Experience in building structures will also enhance their knowledge and understanding of how physical aspects of nature influence our solutions to problems. Exposure to programming and coding will not only enable development of their computer skills but also direct their intellect to deduce solutions based on logic.
HPGE Taiko Drumming
The High Potential Gifted Education Taiko Drumming Program provides students with a high-quality performing arts education, with a focus on the development of a strong understanding of Taiko styles, techniques and performance skills and is an exclusive program offered by Plumpton High School with a fully qualified DEC Music Teacher.
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