Parent Advice Sheets

Photo of a happy family enjoying the outdoors

Potential Plus UK has a wide selection of advice sheets covering many of the issues likely to face parents and carers of a child with high learning potential.

Family members can access all of our family and children’s advice sheets and download them free of charge by logging into the members area and visiting the Family Member Resources page. Non-members can download a selection of General Advice Sheets for free and other advice sheets are available to purchase and download at £3.60 each. For a quick way to identify our family advice sheets visit the Parent Advice Sheets – Alphabetical Index

Photo of a happy family

General Advice Sheets

Available to download for free, our general advice sheets cover subjects like: What is High Learning Potential? Are there Characteristics?  Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (high learning potential and special educational needs or disability), and Early Years and High Learning Potential. These free advice sheets also offer reading lists for children from early years to KS2 and an information sheet on grants and scholarships.

See More

Photo of a hand with a pencil marking some work

Assessments and Professionals Advice Sheets

Advice sheets providing information on intelligence assessments currently administered in the UK and a guide for parents who are interested in having their child assessed by an educational psychologist.

See more

Photo of a girl working hard at her studies ina classroom

Education Advice Sheets

Whether you are considering home schooling, flexi-schooling, working in partnership with schools, looking at acceleration, dealing with handwriting difficulties, or discovering how to use thinking skills, these are just a few of the topics covered by our education advice sheets.

See more

Photo of a classroom showing children hard at work

High Learning Potential and Subject Areas  – Advice Sheets

Many children and young people have a particular strength in one or more subject areas. These advice sheets help parents and carers recognise high learning potential in subject areas and discover more about how to support a child in that subject area.

See more

Photo of woman teaching her son while smiling

Supporting Children with High Learning Potential – Advice Sheets

How do you parent a child with high learning potential? Find out how inspire them, support them, work with their particular profiles, behaviour, strengths and weaknesses, in this set of advice sheets.

See more

Boy wearning a hoodie looking into the distance with a solemn expression

Social and Emotional Issues – Advice Sheets

Is your child struggling with issues such as perfectionism, sleep, worry and anxiety, overexcitability or friendship problems? These advice sheets help address emotional and social issues.

See more

Boy half way up a climbing wall looking back at the camera and smiling

Developing Skills Advice Sheets

Critical or creative thinking, research and revision, leadership, these are all skills that children with high learning potential need to develop. Find out more in our developing skills advice sheets.

See more

Become a Member

Families benefit from access to our advice line, the Members’ Area, our electronic resources, discounted events and our Focus newsletter.

Schools benefit from access to our advice line, online resources, members area, newsletter, workshops, webinars-on-demand, and associate family membership for their parents.