School Profile - Gifted and Talented

The school community strongly adheres to the NSW Quality Teaching model. This includes having high expectations of all students, motivating students through challenging tasks and creating optimal classroom climates that engage students in deep learning.

These experiences include:

• Identifying and reviewing students' prior knowledge

• Providing exemplars of work which demonstrate expectations

• Providing tools to support students to challenge and question knowledge

• Framing higher order questions and tasks

• Teaching and modelling skills to enhance student success

• Promoting student ownership of work

• Connecting their learning to what is meaningful to students

• Flexible learning tasks

• Self-evaluating progress and achievements of learning tasks

• Providing multiple pathways for students to demonstrate learning outcomes