High Potential and Gifted Education - Intellectual Domain

Macksville High School provides our High Potential and Gifted students with a number of activities to express and nurture their abilities in the Intellectual domain, including:

• Lions Youth of the Year
• Rotary RYLA Marine program
• Legislative Council Public Speaking
• NSW Constitutional Convention
• UNSW Regional Residential Program
• National Youth Parliament Program
• Ministers Student Council (DOVES) Forum
• STEM excursions and incursions

Above: Students representing Macksville High School at the Lions Youth of the Year event

Our students engage with HPGE in the Intellectual domain through numerous scholarships, alternate programs and careers opportunities.

Scholarships

• Youth off the Streets
• Macquarie University Rising Stars Leadership Program
• Macquarie University Camp
• Aspire Program
• Harding Miller Women's Scholarship
• Macksville Hotel Hospitality Scholarship

Alternate Programs

• Acceleration
• Stage based classes for some subjects
• Chess club
• Questacon incursions
• Debating
• Australian Geography Competition

Careers Opportunities

• Employability Skills Program (Year 10)
• Educational Pathways Program
• School Based Traineeships
• Work Placement
• Work Experience
• University Roadshows and Excursions
• White Card courses
• Senior First Aid courses

High Potential and Gifted Education at Macksville High School

We offer a variety of activities to nurture and develop every young person's creative, intellectual, physical and social-emotional abilities

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