SEN, EHCP and Other Capital Letters to Do with HLP!
What Do All These Acronyms Mean? Has your ‘HLP’ child come home from school saying that they have been “given an IEP and a SENCo”? Did [...]
Self-Regulated Learning – Being Aware of How You Learn Best
Self-Regulation Self-regulation means the ability to ‘regulate yourself’; to appropriately monitor your thoughts, control your reactions and respond appropriately to your environment. Ideally, your end goal [...]
Education – Rethinking the Assessment System by Joy Morgan
Assessment is due a rethink. Our young people deserve an assessment system that goes way beyond focusing solely on academic achievement with a constant eye on [...]
6 Contemporary Writing Prompts to Inspire More Able Writers
Inspiring prose prompts for more able learners not only offer them a challenge but will also support their communication skills, improve vocabulary and provide them with [...]
A Fond Farewell to This Year’s vPlus Festival
Well, the tents have been dismantled, the stages packed away and, with a large bag of washing for our mums to do slung over our shoulder, [...]
Bullying and High Learning Potential
Being there for a young person singled out due to their ability What is Bullying? “Bullying is the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group [...]
Living with Teenagers by Joy Morgan
Teenagers often get a bad press, yet we were all teenagers once. How many of us can honestly say that we were delightful to our parents, [...]
One Occupational Therapist’s Journey into Dual or Multiple Exceptionality by Mariza Ferreira
One Occupational Therapist’s Journey into Discovering How Her Profession is the Vital Link for Helping Children With Dual Or Multiple Exceptionality by Mariza [...]
Critical Thinking Skills – a Detective Flair, from Arts to Sciences
How to Cultivate Good Judgement in Academic Work and Daily Life ‘Critical thinking’ means to ‘positively critique’; to successfully judge between fact and opinion, draw reasonable [...]
vPlus Festival: Full Throttle Fun! (and More to Come!)
Well, Glastonbury may be cancelled again this year, but fate has thrown a curveball and decided to follow the lead of the best cheesy clubs of [...]