High potential and gifted education

At Birrong Boys High School, HPGE lives in everyday practice. Many students have high potential, and we help that potential to grow into something powerful.

• Birrong Elite Football Academy (BEFA) is a school-based football development program designed to promote sporting excellence while supporting student wellbeing. The academy integrates high-performance football training into the fabric of our school culture, creating an environment where students are challenged, supported, and inspired to succeed.

  BEFA aims to identify and nurture talent through high-quality coaching, values-based learning, and a strong focus on personal growth, empowering students to reach their full potential both on and off the field.

  In the BEFA classroom, learning goes beyond theory. Students explore real-game tactics, formations, and positional responsibilities, analysing how ball movement, spacing, and team shape work together. This knowledge is then applied in practical training sessions, ensuring that what students learn in the classroom directly informs how they train and perform on the pitch.

• Teachers identify students' learning needs in the classroom and use evidence-informed teaching practices to challenge and extend students. We provide learning pathways, including enrichment and extension programs and acceleration.

• Our supportive classroom environments promote a sense of belonging and encourage risk-taking, creativity and collaboration.

• Groups are flexible, students take lead roles, and feedback is strengths-based with clear goals and self-assessment.

• Our teachers engage in professional learning to support the diverse needs of all students, including our high potential and gifted learners.

Every student is a unique individual, so opportunities are flexible and diverse.

• All our students, including high potential and gifted students, are encouraged to take on leadership roles through student representative council leadership, mentoring programs and peer coaching and leadership of major events including ANZAC, Remembrance Day and White Ribbon Day assemblies
• Students deepen strengths through debating, competitions, critical thinking workshops, and STEM and coding pathways like Lego Club, Photography Club and Science Club.
• Leadership grows through the Prefect body, SRC mentoring and peer coaching. Wellbeing is made visible with PBL awards, our on-site Student Support Officer.
• Daily life invites curiosity and belonging, with Open Library at lunch and recess.
• Sport matters too, with integrated sport, training, coaching and in class competitions that include differentiated PE. Recess and lunchtime sporting events provide opportunities for those gifted athletes to excel in a fun competitive environment.

• Statewide and NSW Department of Education support is available for high potential and gifted students. We help with entries, preparation and reflection so every experience feeds back into learning.
• Birrong Boys High School continues to prioritise sporting participation in a multitude of competitions including gala days, combined high schools knock out competitions and selection through to zone, regional and state carnivals.