Introducing Drama to Your Child by Mary Benzies
From a young age, roleplay becomes an essential learning tool for a child. As we get older, this vital, natural instinct, which has a proven track [...]
Back to School Anxiety – Helping Your Child to Cope After Lockdown
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that parents in possession of a high learning potential child, with a good deal of intensity and facing the post-Covid [...]
Last Minute “Triple Lock” on ‘A’ Level Exam Results – A Comment
Potential Plus UK’s main concern with Ofqual’s exam procedure and standardisation model has always been the likelihood of a negative impact on high ability students from [...]
Executive Function Skills – Simplifying a Young, High Potential Learner’s ‘Thinking’ and ‘Doing’ GalleryExecutive Function Skills – Simplifying a Young, High Potential Learner’s ‘Thinking’ and ‘Doing’
Dual or Multiple Exceptionality, Focus on Potential, High Learning Potential, Skills Builder, Wellbeing
Executive Function Skills – Simplifying a Young, High Potential Learner’s ‘Thinking’ and ‘Doing’
Introducing the executive function processes that allow the brain to plan, adapt and multitask 'like an air traffic controller'. What Are Executive Function Skills? Executive function [...]
Supporting a Child in the Five Areas of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand and manage our own emotions and the emotions of others. Its development is distinct from the development of academic [...]
Using Visual Arts to Foster Creative Thinking Skills
“A drawing is the three-way relationship between substance, surface and body. It activates the relationships between the eye and the hand, the hand and the tool, [...]
From Sixth Form to University by Daniel Dipper, Year 13
As a Year 13 student who went through the admissions process last year, I know that applying to university can be a serious challenge. What I [...]
Urgent Improvement Needed: How the Exam Process Will Wreck the Chances of Thousands by Daniel Dipper, Year 13. GalleryUrgent Improvement Needed: How the Exam Process Will Wreck the Chances of Thousands by Daniel Dipper, Year 13.
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Urgent Improvement Needed: How the Exam Process Will Wreck the Chances of Thousands by Daniel Dipper, Year 13.
“I and thousands of students in a similar position to me across the country can only hope that Ofqual will do what every student does after [...]
Leadership: Developing it Daily
“Leadership is the most intensely personal thing in the world, because it is just plain you” (Field Marshall Sir William Slim, 1957) I like this quote [...]
Super STEM Soirées to Save Us from the Sorrow of Sameness
There are many great science lessons out there at the moment on that remarkable interweb contraption, and lots of great science kits and subscriptions, too, but [...]