What to Say About Their High Learning Potential
Describing Your Child’s Abilities to Others, Their School – and Themselves! For some reason, it can be particularly uncomfortable to talk about your own [...]
When Struggling is a Good Thing
From the Archive This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2012 print edition of Focus on Potential What does it take to reach your potential? [...]
Johanna Raffan MBE – Obituary
Potential Plus UK was saddened to hear of the death of Johanna Raffan MBE of a stroke on June 15th, 2021. Johanna was a founding member [...]
Building Friendships – Finding Friends When You Have High Learning Potential
When it comes to friendships, children aren't really that different to us as adults; they are more likely to be drawn towards those with whom they [...]
The HLP Diaries: The Tale of the Terrifying Trap
To celebrate Potential Plus UK's new members' only area, here is a tale to remind us just why, even as perennially pooped parents, we all continue [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Keeping the Challenge High During Remote Learning by Joy Morgan
Stretching high potential learners is a major challenge for teachers, alongside getting to grips with the technology and skills needed for remote learning which, like everything [...]
The Goldilocks Dilemma: Finding the Right School for Your Child with High Learning Potential
It’s a tricky thing, finding a school for a high learning potential (HLP) child. As the ultimate square pegs, it is never going to be simple [...]
An Honour for Denise Yates MBE by Anna Comino-James
We are delighted to say that Denise Yates, former Chief Executive of Potential Plus UK was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Congratulations. [...]