Developing Thinking Skills Through Board Games
Despite the millions of apps and video games that invade our everyday lives, board games (also known as tabletop games) are making a comeback to the [...]
Adjusting to Life in 2020 – Routines for Positive Self-Care by Joy Morgan, Parliament Hill School
Everyone is adjusting to the rapidly changing landscape of our lives. Familiar routines are changing radically, and it is only natural to be affected, fearful and [...]
10 Inspirations for Daily Walks – Social Distancing Style!
How can we make the most of our once a day out-and-about exercise during the Covid-19 outbreak? It’s hard for children to be outside and not [...]
Don’t Miss…Growing Up Gifted
The series Growing Up Gifted returns to BBC2 tonight, March 25th, at 9.00p.m. with part two on Wednesday 1st April. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s7mnh/episodes/guide This series follows six teenagers [...]
Coping in the Covid Classroom
In these unprecedented times, convention is going out of the window quicker than you can say defenestration. One of those conventions is school. This is an [...]
The Fabulous Flexi-Cat Lessons – A Love Letter to Sir W.
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 3 Charting the fabulous (and fatiguing!) flexi-Fridays with my OE-rich* 8 year old (currently identifying as a cat and a Georgian) February [...]
Ask Away: How To Effectively Advocate & Speak Up For Your Child with High Learning Potential
Supporting your child with high learning potential as they develop may require you asking for extra support. Many parents can find it difficult, uncomfortable or embarrassing [...]
Franz Mönks, Honorary President of ECHA – Obituary
It is with great sadness that Potential Plus UK heard today of the death of Franz Mönks, Honorary President of ECHA (the European Council for High [...]
Building Connections: Encouraging Deeper Learning by Rebecca Howell, Potential Plus UK Senior Education Consultant
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 [...]
4 Ways That Being A Trustee Of Potential Plus UK Set Me Up For Success – Ben Ramsden
In 2013, I was voted onto the Board of Trustees for Potential Plus UK, after responding to a request for interested individuals to apply. I sat [...]