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 [...]
Supporting Complexity in HLP and DME children
When Smart Isn’t Simple Many children with high learning potential (HLP) surprise the adults around them. They might learn quickly, ask challenging questions, or think [...]
What is Skills Builder?
Many of Potential Plus UK's blogs and events carry Skills Builder logos – but what exactly is Skills Builder, how do you use it and why [...]
Do You Hate Losing?
How To Be OK When You Aren’t In First Place At School Or At Home Do you really hate it when you don’t win at games, [...]
I’m Bad At Maths . . . No Big Deal Right? by Prof. Rhys C. Jones
Have you ever been scared stiff of a spider in the bathroom and screamed as loud as you can? Then did you look around and see [...]
Thumbs Up to Failure by Prof. Rhys C. Jones
Sooner or later you will fail at something in your life, it’s going to happen! It’s very likely that you have already failed at something. And [...]
5 Common Crises of Confidence
 With a high potential learner, building confidence sometimes means taking one uneasy step at a time. Fortunately, with the right support it won’t be ‘a bridge [...]
Parenting Perfectionism
Perfectionism and high learning potential can, unfortunately, be an alarmingly snug fit. Up and down the land, parents of children with high learning potential will attest [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]