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 Granville South Creative and Performing Arts High School, we recognise and nurture these strengths early. We support advanced learners with great lessons and activities to help them grow and thrive.

Our school is dedicated to supporting high potential and gifted students through specialist programs including the Creative and Performing Arts Selective Stream, Extension Learning, the Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) program, and tailored training opportunities for High performing student athletes.

These high potential and gifted education programs provide enriched learning experiences, mentorship, and tailored support, ensuring students can excel academically, creatively, and in sport while preparing for future success.

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.

Our high potential and gifted education opportunities

Our students engage with HPGE education in the classroom, in our school, and across NSW.

Creative and Performing Arts Selective Stream

Granville South Creative and Performing Arts High School offers a Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Selective Stream for high-potential, gifted, and talented students with a passion for the arts. Students can audition for ensemble groups in areas such as Contemporary Dance, Drama, Drumming, Filipino Dance, Middle Eastern Dance, Music, Pasifika Dance and Vocal, and Visual Arts.

Through this specialist program, CAPA students develop their talents alongside like-minded peers, supported by the CAPA learning progressions framework. This framework ensures students build core skills in their chosen artform while fostering creativity and inspiring future artistic goals.

The audition process involves two rounds: an initial online video submission, followed by a live studio audition workshop for shortlisted applicants.

In our classroom

Differentiated Extension Learning

Granville South Creative and Performing Arts High School offers Differentiated Extension Learning to challenge advanced learners in selective Year 7 to 10 core subject classes. These programs provide accelerated and enriched learning opportunities, preparing students for higher-order thinking and deeper content knowledge in their future HSC studies.

Selective stream classes in core subjects are offered in each junior year group. Prior to placement, students are assessed on their ability level, and those demonstrating advanced skills are placed in extension classes. Here, teachers deliver tailored projects through research, independent and project-based learning, and tasks designed to foster critical thinking and problem-solving.

Across our school

Granville South Creative and Performing Arts High School offers a number of initiatives and programs, tailored to challenge our students to think, create, lead and grow every day:

Debating
STEM
Academic thinking
House competitions
Peer mentoring
Student leadership (SRC)
Wellbeing programs
Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.

Across NSW

Australian Business and Community Network program

Granville South Creative and Performing Arts High School partners with the Australian Business and Community Network (ABCN) to connect students with corporate volunteers, bridging the gap between academic potential and real-world opportunities.

Through this program, high-performing students are mentored by industry professionals from leading businesses and private enterprises. Mentors provide structured, skills-based challenges that promote higher-order thinking, helping students develop confidence, broaden aspirations, and explore career pathways. The partnership also connects students to valuable professional networks and resources, supporting their future success.

High performing student athletes

In addition to the school’s core sports curriculum, Granville South Creative and Performing Arts High School supports high-performing student athletes who compete and train at state level. Through the PDHPE faculty, these students receive value-added performance services and extension training to prepare for elite competitions.

Gifted and talented athletes benefit from specialised coaching and access to the school’s impressive fields and sporting facilities, helping them refine skills and achieve their sporting goals.