Mascot Public School follows the NSW Department of Education’s High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) Policy. In NSW public schools, a student can be identified as being High Potential, Gifted or Highly Gifted in one or more of the following domains:
Intellectual, Social-Emotional, Physical or Creative. The Department of Education represents each of these domains with these cogwheel images:
The school has a comprehensive HPGE student identification process. Teachers who believe that a student in their class may be HPGE in one or more domain use observational notes, student work samples and internal and external assessment data (if applicable) to present to the school’s HPGE team, which meets once a term. Following this presentation and the classroom teachers’ completion of the HPGE Student Identification Survey, the HPGE team will make a determination as to whether a student is HPGE in one or more domain.
If a student is identified as being HPGE, the classroom teacher works with the student and their parents/carers to develop a HPGE Individual Learning Plan. This plan outlines the adjustments and interventions the classroom teacher will implement at school to further develop the student’s potential or giftedness.
Every teacher at Mascot Public School is a member of either:
HPGE Creative Team
HPGE Emotional-Social Team
HPGE Physical Team
HPGE Intellectual Team
Each team organises events throughout the school year for their HPGE domain. All students at Mascot Public School engage in these whole-school events and activities and students identified as HPGE are given specific encouragement and support to showcase their talents and abilities to the school community. This “talent development” process and its relationship to student high performance is outlined in the HPGE Policy:
