Understanding Slow Processing Speed in Children with High Learning Potential

Processing speed refers to how quickly an individual can process information, i.e. the speed at which they can react to incoming information, understand it, think about [...]

Back to the Future – AGMs Past and Present

History and Principles of Potential Plus UK with a visit to AGMs Past and Present Back in 1965, Margaret Branch, a psychiatric [...]

The HLP Diaries…Betty Books and the Pirate Problem

Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 6 Written just before Lockdown 1.0, Betty Books discovers that it always pays to be prepared when battling a band of black-hearted [...]

Extension and Enrichment in Learning

Extension and enrichment are two ways of making learning more challenging for learners with higher ability. This article discusses the difference between them and provides examples [...]

I Believe in Me!

Positive Self-Esteem for High Potential Learners – How to Help Them Believe and Thrive Self-esteem can be summarised as the opinion we have of ourselves. Positive [...]

Metacognition and High Potential Learners

Metacognitive skills and self-regulation are being promoted in many schools at present, and rightly so. The Education Endowment Foundation’s research and analysis, chiming with findings across [...]

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Working Memory – A Brief Guide

What Is It? One of the brain’s executive functions, working memory is the ability to hold new information in the short term whilst it is needed [...]

The Importance of Drama in the Development of Children by Rachel Lewin

Often, when choosing GCSE options at school, students open up about their dilemmas – “I want to do Drama, but it clashes with something that my [...]

Rewriting the Writing Rule Book: Handwriting and High Learning Potential

As benign as pen and paper may appear to be, we have long since learned not to be fooled by the apparent innocence of the tree [...]

Creative Thinking Skills: Activities for Arts to Sciences

How to Support Innovative Young Mathematicians, Artists, Writers and Scientists How can you possibly stimulate the mind of a young person who not only has high [...]

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