High Potential and Gifted Education Program 2025

Applications for Year 7, 8, 9, 10 students to join our High Potential and Gifted Education Program for 2025 will open on Tuesday 30 April 2024. The test will take place on Saturday 01 June 2024.

Please register your interest with the Front Office for the information session.

Tel: (02) 9399 3122

Email: randwickb-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Further Information

2025 High Potential and Gifted Education Program (Year 7, 8, 9 & 10)

Applications Open: 01 May, 2024

Applications Close: 24 May, 2024

PLEASE NOTE:  Late applications will NOT be accepted.

Information Session…...Tuesday, 30 April, 2024 5pm Randwick Boys' High School Library

Testing Date……………..Saturday, 01 June, 2024

SCHOOL PROFILE

Randwick High School provides a safe and caring environment for your child to learn and grow, a place where they can develop their academic, sporting, social and cultural potential. By offering a diverse, challenging curriculum, well supported by a dedicated, professional staff, our students learn in a dynamic environment and become successful, lifelong learners.

High potential and gifted students are enriched by a variety of experiences in academic activities, sport, the arts and leadership. Participation in university challenges, STEM enrichment days, project-based learning tasks, a Sydney wide competitive school sporting zone and our annual school production The Show, provide some of those experiences.

Interstate excursions provide added richness to students learning experiences. Our location enables us to maximise opportunities for students to visit places relevant to their learning, including the University of New South Wales.

Students are encouraged to explore their creative talents through innovative programs in dance, voice, drama, music and the visual arts. The creative talents of all student are nurtured and developed.

An active leadership program has been developed with the Students' Representative Council and the Student Leadership Team, comprising the school Captains, Prefects and SRC.

The school has a focus on positive behaviour for learning and in developing, in each student, the potential to achieve their best. Our students join us as adolscents, but they leave us as adults.

CRITERIA FOR PLACEMENT OF STUDENTS

Applicants must satisfy the following criteria:

1.      ACADEMIC MERIT

Students must compete academically with other candidates for entry into the Gifted and Talented Program.  Academic merit is determined by:

·      Academic placement tested conducted by Academic Assessment Services,

·      Student School Report and NAPLAN results,

·      The provision of a portfolio of student work samples.

Details of each are set out on the following pages.

Academic Placement Test

Academic Assessment Services conducts this independent and secure test in English, Mathematics and General Ability. It is set at an advanced level of difficulty. Register for the test via the School’s Gifted & Talented (High Potential & Gifted) Students Page.

ENQUIRIES

Enquiries about courses or programs offered can be made by visiting the website: https://randwickb-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/learning-at-our-school/gifted-and-talented-program.html. All other enquiries can be directed to the attention of the Deputy Principal at Randwick Boys’ High School at the address or numbers listed below.

Randwick Boys’ High School

Cnr Rainbow & Avoca Streets, Randwick NSW 2031

P: 02 9399 3122 F: 02 9399 9546

E: All randwickb-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au