Tips For Dealing With Back To School Emotions
As the summer holidays come to an end, your child might start showing signs of anxiety or reluctance about returning to school. This short blog post [...]
The Goldilocks Dilemma: Finding the Right School for Your Child with High Learning Potential
Choosing the right school is one of the most common questions we hear from families—especially in our Parenting High Potential Facebook group. If it’s something [...]
Being an Equal Partner with Your DME Child’s School
In the past, parents and carers were told what was going to happen to their child in school. Then they were consulted. Then there was parental [...]
Choosing A School For Your High Potential Learner
Each child is different and one size will most definitely not fit all. The suggestions below are for parents and carers to consider, decide what is [...]
10 Key Factors in Educating Young People with Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME)
Potential Plus UK’s Senior Education Consultant and Director of the DME Trust, Rebecca Howell, distils the important factors in providing high quality education for young people [...]
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 [...]
Disadvantaged High Potential Learners by Joy Morgan
An important group at risk of underachieving across the UK is high potential learners from disadvantaged backgrounds. Even where this group is making good progress, it [...]
Fabulous Fascination Folders to Challenge Learners
Fascination Folders, a place where students can access more information and challenging activities about a topic, can be used in the classroom or electronically during remote [...]
Building Connections: Encouraging Deeper Learning
Can you think of a time where you really learned something deeply? What was it? What did it feel like? What made the learning deep? One [...]
How to Stand Up to Your Head Teacher by Lola P. (Aged 6)
Do you think that your school has got their discipline right? Lola, aged 6, reflects on the "Triple Rs" in her school. At school they have [...]