Grow Their Giftedness: Tips and Activities for Children with High Learning Potential
Your child has such a passion for learning that sometimes you feel that you just can’t keep up. What do you do next? Not sure? Dip [...]
Potential Plus UK Is On The Move…
We are delighted to announce that we are moving on July 1st to The Mansion at Bletchley Park - home of the Codebreakers. We [...]
HLP Parenting: Sleep Deprivation in Parents
A high proportion of High Learning Potential (HLP) children experience unusual sleep patterns. These can include insomnia, active dreams, sleep talking, sleep walking, frequent waking or [...]
Young Person’s Guide to Journalism
In May, as part of our Be Curious Weekend, we ran a one-day workshop for members aged 12+, introducing young writers to the exciting and evolving [...]
15 Great Family Days Out for High Learning Potential Teenagers
Sometimes, finding activities to do as a family with teenagers can be the most challenging part of a holiday. Particularly teenagers with high learning potential! [...]
Chess: The Ultimate High Challenge, Low Threat Activity by Barry Hymer
Professor Barry Hymer is on the international advisory board for Dansk Skoleskak, the Danish scholastic chess organisation. He is co-writing a book on chess and mindset [...]
Building Empathy
Understanding Empathy Human beings and other living creatures may have felt empathy for millennia, however a word for it has only existed in the English language [...]
Suffragette Walking Tour by Kerensa L. (Aged 8)
Following on from Emma's blog about her mock trial as the Suffragette Mary Richardson at the Royal Courts of Justice, Young Reporter Kerensa shares with us [...]
Surprising Shapes and Higher Thinking Skills
“To be equipped to work at a higher level in the long term, children with high learning potential need to experience higher-order thinking skills; analysis, [...]
Being Curious at Beaumanor Hall
The Be Curious Weekend 2019 was held May 4th-5th at historically significant Beaumanor Hall and provided a superb setting for experiential and empathetic exploration for children [...]