Hunters Hill High School offers extensive opportunities in extra-curricular activities. Please contact the relevant department or year advisor for information on extra-curricular activities.
Gifted and talented program 2018
Hunters Hill High School offers gifted and talented classes in both Year 7 and 8. Our school aims to identify gifts and foster talents within children, and provide teaching and learning opportunities for them to achieve their potential by:
- enrichment of core curricula at all levels
- support for emotional and social needs
- specialised programs.
Need and Validity in Gifted and Talented Education program
The Hunters Hill High School's Need and Validity in Gifted and Talented Education (NAVIGATE) program offers a gifted and talented class for selected students within a co-educational, comprehensive learning community.
NAVIGATE fosters a range of enriching learning experiences and academic endeavours. There is differentiated curricula to facilitate imagination, abstraction, creativity and intuitive expression.
What do gifted children need?
- Understanding of ways in which to maximise their individual potential.
- Curriculum experiences that allow enriched learning.
- Educational programs that foster flexibility, freedom, depth and complexity.
- A learning environment designed to foster creativity and independent learning.
- Learning opportunities which go beyond the normal classroom context.
- Challenging activities which encourage risk taking.
- A sense of belonging by collaborating with like-minded individuals.
Is my child exceptional?
Gifted learners often possess:
- a heightened level of curiosity
- capacity to learn at faster rates
- a wider variety of interests
- power of concentration
- ability to handle abstract ideas
- superior reasoning
- flexibility of thinking
- ability to see a number of viewpoints
- alert and subtle sense of humour
- imaginative expression
- heightened sensitivity and empathy
- leadership skills.
Contact Ruth Simpson (Head Teacher: Teaching and Learning) for more information.
Adventurous journeys
The school organises two adventurous journeys each year that cater to both bronze and silver participants. The journeys can cost from $40 to $100 based on the location, transport requirements, student numbers and camping fees of each trek. Students are also responsible for providing their own camping equipment for each trip.