Lily-Mae’s Story – Bright but Struggling
Lily-Mae* is a bright, curious, happy, confident child who is struggling at school. Discover more about her frustrations with handwriting and asynchronous development. [...]
55th Anniversary Creative Writing Competition – The Results
Congratulations to all our winners and runners up and thank you to everyone who took part in our 55th Anniversary Creative Writing Competition, raising funds for [...]
Extension and Enrichment – A Resource Round-Up to Boost Learning
High potential learners so often need ‘harder work’ – not just more work. They need more challenge – not just more work. One of the most [...]
Maddy’s Story – “I Want to Be Normal!”
Maddy* was a happy, confident toddler with a fantastic imagination. She was curious about everything and afraid of nothing. When [...]
Ten Tips for Making Your Fundraising Challenge a Success! – Stephen Ramsden
Stephen Ramsden is the chair of Potential Plus UK’s Trustees. He rather rashly offered to undertake our first Challenge55 – setting himself the challenge of cycling [...]
Summer Reading Challenge Reviews 2022
Each year, we ask our members to read and review five books for us that they have chosen as a challenge to themselves over the summer [...]
Isabella’s Happy Place – A Challenge55 Story by Amanda Holt
Members, Isabella, aged 4, and her mum Amanda have just completed a fabulous swimming Challenge55, raising money for Potential Plus UK. Read more from Amanda about [...]
What I Learned By Taking Part In Challenge55 – Stephen Ramsden
Stephen Ramsden is the chair of Potential Plus UK’s Trustees. He rather rashly offered to undertake our first Challenge55 – setting himself the challenge of cycling [...]
Nurturing the Social-Emotional Development of Gifted Children
From the Archive This article by former Potential Plus UK Education Consultant, Elaine Hook, originally appeared in the Spring 2008 print edition of NAGC Magazine. [...]
Thumbs Up to Failure by Prof. Rhys C. Jones
Sooner or later you will fail at something in your life, it’s going to happen! It’s very likely that you have already failed at something. And [...]