Education Publications

School Advice Sheets

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Potential Plus UK offers a large range of resources to help inform schools about high learning potential. Our Advice sheets cover Identification, Strategy, Subjects, Classroom Practice, Social and Emotional Needs, Dual or Multiple Exceptionality, and Parental Engagement. More about these resources can be found  on our School Advice Sheets page. Members should log into our Members’ Area to download these for free directly from our Member Resources pages.

Education Publications

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Education reports about high learning potential / gifted and talented / more able pupils and other publications such as our Guide to High Learning Potential for Schools are available to help inform schools about high learning potential.

Most of the publications shown below are available to download for free directly from this page, hard copies of publications can be purchased through the shop.

Guide to High Learning Potential for Schools - Download

The Guide to High Learning Potential for Schools

Guide to High Learning Potential - Hard Copy

The Guide to High Learning Potential for Schools

Challenge Booklet Download

50th Anniversary Challenge Book

The Current State of Provision for Learners with DME - The DME Trust - 2022

Cover of report Current State of Provision for DME Learners

Cognitive Science in the Classroom - Education Endowment Foundation - 2021

Support for More Able and Talented Pupils in Schools (UK) - House of Commons Briefing Paper - 2020

More Able and Talented Learners Guidance for FE - Welsh Government - 2019

Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME) The Current State of Play - nasen - 2018

Adolescents' Social Perceptions of Academically High Performing Students - Compare Journal - 2019

What Works in Gifted Education - CfEE - 2018

Potential for Success - Sutton Trust - 2018

Most Able Disadvantaged Report - DfE - 2018

Supporting More Able and Talented Pupils - Estyn - 2018

School Cultures and Practices: Supporting the Attainment of Disadvantaged Pupils - DfE - 2018

Global Gaps: Comparing Socio-Economic Gaps in the Performance of Highly Able - Sutton Trust - 2017

The Attainment Gap - Education Endowment Foundation - 2017

The Most Able Students Update - Ofsted - 2015

Missing Talent - Sutton Trust - 2015

Research to Identify More Able and Talented Provision Across Wales - Welsh Government - 2015

We Count Too - High Able Pupils in Scottish Schools - SNAP - 2015

Progress Made by High Attaining Children from Disadvantaged - SMCPC - 2014

Ability As An Additional Support Need Scotland - CEPS Journal - 2014

School & College Level Strategies to Raise Aspirations of High Achieving Disadvantaged - DfE - 2014

The Most Able Students - Ofsted - 2013

Investigation of Key Stage 2 Level 6 Tests - DfE - 2013

Educating the Highly Able - Sutton Trust - 2012

Open Access: Democratising Entry to Independent Day Schools - Sutton Trust - 2012

Supporting More Able & Talented Pupils in Secondary Schools - Estyn - 2012

Supporting More Able and Talented Pupils in Primary Schools - Estyn - 2011

Room At The Top - Policy Exchange - 2011

Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers: A Strategy for Social Mobility - HM Government - 2011

Developing Quality Tuition: Academically More Able - DfE - 2011

Early Entry to GCSE Examinations - DfE - 2011

Highly Able Children in the Early Years - SNAP - 2011

Developing Higher-Order Mathematics Skills - Welsh Government - 2011

Developing Higher-Order Literacy Skills - Welsh Government - 2010

Finding and Exploring Young Children's Fascinations - DCSF - 2010

Gifted and Talented Education: The Pupil and Parent Guarantees - DfE - 2010

The Gifted and Talented Programme - House of Commons - 2010

Gifted and Talented Classroom Quality Standards - DCSF - 2010

Gifted and Talented Institutional Quality Standards - DCSF - 2010

Meeting the Challenge: Quality Standards in Education for MAT Pupils - Welsh Government - 2008

Gifted and Talented: Guidelines for Teachers - NCCA & CCEA (Northern Ireland) - 2007

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