Potential Plus UK – Going ‘Above and Beyond’ in 2019
The Above and Beyond Awards took place a year ago today. The awards celebrate parents, teachers, support staff and other professionals in the UK who go [...]
The Tunnel of Adventure – by Adam Rafael Holmes (Aged 10)
Potential Plus UK Young Reporter Adam Rafael Holmes has had an eventful 2019. In February he was the recipient of the Above and Beyond Young Person's [...]
Do You Embrace “Geek” and “Nerd”?
Children with high learning potential can find themselves the targets of bullying; taunted with names like "nerd", "geek" or "weirdo". In December, psychology lecturer Dr. Sonja [...]
Meteora by Iona Mandal (Aged 13)
This Christmas holiday, I visited Meteora, a rock formation in central Greece. It hosts one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of six Eastern Orthodox [...]
10 Questions about Mindset and High Learning Potential
How to Understand Fixed Mindset and Encourage Growth Mindset in High Potential Learners The buzzwords ‘growth mindset’ and ‘fixed mindset’ have caused a stir since 2006, [...]
Fabulous February: Feel Good Ideas
Getting up on dark mornings, possibly craving more sleep, then braving the cold outside, can make even the most energetic child with high learning potential feel [...]
That’s My Personality
If you’ve attended one of the Big Family Weekends, or an Explorer Group event, you may have noticed that our children can be completely different in [...]
Seasons Greetings 2019 – And A Few Statistics!
2019 has been another busy year for Potential Plus UK We took 380 booked advisory calls We answered over 5,000 initial enquiry calls We carried out [...]
Creative Thinking – ‘Go for a Burst!’
An ice-cool easy way to boost creative thinking skills while you get up to speed with the experts. “The Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling said: [...]
Three-Player Chess by Antonio B. (Aged 10)
Introduction I think that three-player chess is a great game to play, because not only are you being attacked from one side, but from another [...]