High potential and gifted education (HPGE) programs

Our Centre offers outdoor learning programs for students of all ages who are gifted or show high 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.

What we offer

Each high potential and gifted education program includes:

• fun, hands-on learning in nature that helps students think in new and deeper ways
• activities are NSW curriculum aligned
• tasks that support creative thinking, problem solving and leadership
• chances to ask big questions, work with others and explore ideas
• learning about caring for Country, sustainability and Aboriginal cultures
• optional classroom activities before and after the visit
• teachers who are trained to support and challenge high potential students
• activities that can be changed to suit your students’ stage, strengths and interests.

Extension programs

HPGE Eco-Logical Thinkers

Rumbalara teachers will work with students to explore the amazing world of ecosystems and the creatures that live within them.

HPGE Numeracy in Nature

Rumbalara EEC teachers will come to your school as an incursion to encourage students who have an interest in Maths and would benefit from developing their environmental maths skills at a high level.

HPGE Environmental Art Day

Students will learn all about the endangered Regent Honey Eater and participate in an art workshop with renowned artist Jenny McCracken.

HPGE Youth Leadership Program

Each year Rumbalara Environmental Education Centre runs a HPGE Youth Leadership Program. Students from each school will identify an environmental project, issue or action that interests them within their school, in their local community or more broadly.

HPGE Entomology in Action

Deep dive into the world of invertebrates, including ecology, anatomy, taxonomy, and conservation. Students collaborate with an entomologist to document findings and construct a mounted model invertebrate.

HPGE iPad Photography Workshop

Students will learn about composition, lighting, using different vantage points and elements of macrophotography used in nature.

HPGE Animation Creation (Stopmotion)

Integrate cross-curricular learning by combining literacy, technology, and art. Students can work with clay, cut paper shapes, lego or inanimate objects to create short videos.

Water Efficiency/Flow Forward Program

Rumbalara EEC will be offering the Water Efficiency/Flow Forward Program (WEP). The program is aimed at Stage 2, 3 and 4, and is perfectly suited for student leadership groups and HPGE classes.

Bright Sparks Energy Trailer

When the ‘Bright Sparks’ energy trailer comes to your school, students go on a journey through the scientific discoveries that sparked the industrial revolution and our current dependence on fossil fuelled electricity.

Student Leadership

The Student Leadership program provides an opportunity for students to learn leadership skills through a range of activities designed to encourage teamwork, communication, problem solving and respect on local Country.

Interested in a program?

Email our office for more information.

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