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 [...]
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 [...]
Parenting Perfectionism
Perfectionism and high learning potential can, unfortunately, be an alarmingly snug fit. Up and down the land, parents of children with high learning potential will attest [...]
I Believe in Me!
Positive Self-Esteem for High Potential Learners – How to Help Them Believe and Thrive Self-esteem can be summarised as the opinion we have of ourselves. Positive [...]
Metacognition and High Potential Learners
Metacognitive skills and self-regulation are being promoted in many schools at present, and rightly so. The Education Endowment Foundation’s research and analysis, chiming with findings across [...]
Working Memory – A Brief Guide
What Is It? One of the brain’s executive functions, working memory is the ability to hold new information in the short term whilst it is needed [...]