Grand Ideas for Garden Games
As the weather gets warmer and the school holidays progress, take advantage of the weather and free time. Here are some games that high learning potential [...]
Overexcitabilities: Psychomotor Overexcitability
Children with high learning potential, especially those who display Psychomotor Overexcitability, can be highly energetic, always on the go and may want to be constantly engaged [...]
Developing Thinking Skills Through Board Games
Despite the millions of apps and video games that invade our everyday lives, board games (also known as tabletop games) are making a comeback to the [...]
Adjusting to Life in 2020 – Routines for Positive Self-Care by Joy Morgan, Parliament Hill School
Everyone is adjusting to the rapidly changing landscape of our lives. Familiar routines are changing radically, and it is only natural to be affected, fearful and [...]
Coping in the Covid Classroom
In these unprecedented times, convention is going out of the window quicker than you can say defenestration. One of those conventions is school. This is an [...]
The Fabulous Flexi-Cat Lessons – A Love Letter to Sir W.
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 3 Charting the fabulous (and fatiguing!) flexi-Fridays with my OE-rich* 8 year old (currently identifying as a cat and a Georgian) February [...]
Franz Mönks, Honorary President of ECHA – Obituary
It is with great sadness that Potential Plus UK heard today of the death of Franz Mönks, Honorary President of ECHA (the European Council for High [...]
Building Connections: Encouraging Deeper Learning
Can you think of a time where you really learned something deeply? What was it? What did it feel like? What made the learning deep? One [...]
The 2020 Membership Survey Results Are In!
The results of our 2020 Membership Survey are in! 117 of you responded, for which we are very grateful, giving your views about parenting high learning [...]
High Learning Potential Parenting: “Can’t Cope?” – Try Nurturing A Growth Mindset
We all sometimes wail “I CAN’T cope!”, “I am at the END of my patience!”, or “I AM A FAILURE in the face of a child [...]