School Development Day: Plumpton High School - High Potential and Gifted Education Focus

Teachers at Plumpton High School commenced Term 2 2025 with a School Development Day focus on High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) across the 4 domains of potential including Intellectual, Social-emotional, Physical and Creative. This continues the significant work that Plumpton has been undertaking over the last 10 years in building multiple frameworks to support high potential and gifted students across a diverse range of areas including Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Humanities and Leadership, Creative and Performing Arts, Sport and Social Emotional dimensions. We encourage you to visit our Website https://plumpton-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/ and the ‘High Potential and Gifted Education’ tab to see some of the work we already undertake in the area in addition to our HPGE classes in each year.

Our teachers are focussing on 6 key responsibilities in the HPGE Policy

1. Engaging with new syllabus, teachers will need to consider how assessment and data will be used to identify the specific advanced learning needs of High Potential Gifted Students (HPGS) across all 4 domains of potential

2. Teachers are required to apply evidence-based approaches that extend HPGS beyond their current level of mastery and we know that flexibility within new syllabus enables this.

3. Differentiated programs within new syllabuses should meet the learning needs of HPGS

4. The impact of professional learning for teachers cannot be underestimated regarding new syllabus requirements when building capability to effectively plan for HPGS

5. Supporting talent development within the new curriculum requires collaboration between teachers particularly at the beginning stages of syllabus implementation.

6. Supporting transitions continues to be crucial during new syllabus planning, programming and assessment – teachers will consider how they communicate during transition points. These include stage or grade acceleration, and entry into high school from a primary setting.

Our Head Teacher leaders have a key role in supporting teachers with these responsibilities so that Improvement is sustainable, vision is maintained, and learning is optimised. This will include consideration of inclusion, equity and strategic purposeful use of evidence.

Tim Lloyd, Principal