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 Bardia Public School, students are encouraged to strive for excellence both in and beyond the classroom. A wide range of co-curricular activities gives gifted and high potential learners the chance to challenge themselves, showcase their talents, and shine in competitive settings. Our skilled teachers adapt lessons to meet the needs of every student, ensuring learning is engaging and appropriately challenging across the intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical domains .
With strong systems in place to identify and support gifted learners, Bardia creates a stimulating and inclusive environment that inspires curiosity, encourages challenge and celebrates individual strengths.
Our high potential and gifted education opportunities
We foster a culture of high expectations and equity in excellence, ensuring every student, regardless of background, has opportunities to develop their potential into talent. At Bardia we challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day. We offer a rich range of programs across the four domains which are designed to extend and ignite your child’s talents. Examples of our high potential and gifted education programs include:
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Tournament of the Minds - Students compete in teams across 10 disciplines: engineering, mathematics and chess, code breaking, art and poetry, science, English, ideation, creative producers, cartography and legacy.
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UNSW Girls in STEMM: Introducing and empowering girls in engineering
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Maths Olympiad and ICAS Competition
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Chess Club
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Debating and Public Speaking
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STEM and Robotics
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Selective High School: 23 Bardia students gained entry into a Selective HS for 2026
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Opportunity Class: 4 Bardia students gained entry into an Opportunity Class for 2026
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"Five Ways to Wellbeing" art competition
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Artworks entered in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award and on display at the Campbelltown Art Centre
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Camden Valley Way Showcase at The Cube
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Choir performed at the Cantabile Festival at Sydney Opera House
- State sporting representatives
- Interschool sporting competitions: The Fields Gala days and represenative sport
- Student leadership: Captains, Prefects, House Captains
- Student Representative Council and Student Parliament
- Playground pals
- Year 6 buddies
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.
Help for your high potential child
If your child shows signs of high potential, contact us. We can share how our HPGE support can guide their learning journey.
Student opportunities and activities
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Learning
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