Clearly Able, Yet Complicated? – Might Your Child Have ‘DME’?
‘Unusual’ in both their potential and in their obstacles? Here is a simple guide to Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME). Is your child (or student) clearly [...]
Understanding Slow Processing Speed in Children with High Learning Potential
Processing speed refers to how quickly an individual can process information, i.e. the speed at which they can react to incoming information, understand it, think about [...]
Tips to Support Your Anxious Child
Many children have worries or anxieties. For children with high learning potential, common characteristics, such as overexcitabilities or asynchronous development, can magnify emotional issues. How can [...]
Back to the Future – AGMs Past and Present
History and Principles of Potential Plus UK with a visit to AGMs Past and Present Back in 1965, Margaret Branch, a psychiatric [...]
The HLP Diaries…Betty Books and the Pirate Problem
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 6 Written just before Lockdown 1.0, Betty Books discovers that it always pays to be prepared when battling a band of black-hearted [...]
5 Ways to Challenge Students in Remote Learning
With formalisation of the guidance to provide remote learning for students who can’t be in school due to Covid-19, schools will be considering how they cater [...]
Exciting News – Community Fund Support for Our High Learning Potential Community
We are absolutely delighted to announce the news that Potential Plus UK has secured funding from the Government’s Coronavirus Community Support Fund, which is being distributed [...]
Summer Reading Challenge 2020 – The Reviews
It’s time for the Summer Reading Challenge 2020 Reviews! Each year, we ask our members to read and review five books for us that they have [...]
5 Common Crises of Confidence
With a high potential learner, building confidence sometimes means taking one uneasy step at a time. Fortunately, with the right support it won’t be ‘a bridge [...]
Extension and Enrichment in Learning
Extension and enrichment are two ways of making learning more challenging for learners with higher ability. This article discusses the difference between them and provides examples [...]