Let your high potential child soar with our many opportunities to nurture and expand their talents
High potential students are those whose potential exceeds that of students of the same age in one or more domains: intellectual, creative, social-emotional, and physical.
Our teachers differentiate their lessons to challenge each student with the level best suited to them. We have a Junior and a Senior School committee who collaborate to ensure high performing students are identified and differentiated catered for, in and out of the classroom.
How we engage our high potential students
We work with students and their families to identify students’ strengths and areas of interest, to maximise their engagement and provide them with real-world opportunities to solve complex problems, generate new ideas and flourish using our evidence-based teaching practices.
In the classroom, our teachers know our High Potential students and in doing so, enrich the learning experiences for them, on an individual basis, to both engage and challenge each child to reach their full potential.
In the Junior School, high potential students join HEROIC Headways, learning from Senior School English and Maths teachers twice a week per subject.
In the Senior School, students benefit from single-subject acceleration, targeted classes in Maths, English and Science, and enrichment in co-curricular programs. Our High Potential Club meets weekly for projects on topics like the stock market, filmmaking, and moments in history.
Outside the classroom, our high potential students are further supported through:
- Inter-school and individual academic competitions such as Da Vinci Decathlon, GATEway, Future Problem Solving, Global Academic Challenges and various maths, AMT and ICAS competitions
- Individual mentoring and opportunities to attend off-campus enrichment excursions
- Recognition of achievements through school assemblies and newsletters
- Challenging co-curricular programs such as robotics, STEAM, HEROIC Thinkers, languages, chess, coding, engineering, philosophy and Learning With Python clubs.
Families with High Potential Students must supply a psychometric assessment or specialist report from an educational psychologist or psychiatrist to accompany their application.
“We identify academically high potential students through a multifaceted approach.”