Flexi-Cat Diaries 2021 – Reasons to be Cheerful: Lockdown Three
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 7 The continuing tales of my fabulous (and fatiguing!) flexi-Fridays (and, for now, all other days, too!) with my overexcitability-rich 9-year-old Many [...]
The HLP Diaries…Betty Books and the Pirate Problem
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 6 Written just before Lockdown 1.0, Betty Books discovers that it always pays to be prepared when battling a band of black-hearted [...]
Rewriting the Writing Rule Book: Handwriting and High Learning Potential
As benign as pen and paper may appear to be, we have long since learned not to be fooled by the apparent innocence of the tree [...]
Overexcitabilities in Lockdown: Sensual Overexcitability
High learning potential children, especially those who display Sensual Overexcitability, have a heightened awareness of one or all five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. [...]
Overexcitabilities in Lockdown: Emotional Overexcitability
High learning potential children, especially those who display Emotional Overexcitability, tend to experience the world, and their emotions, with particularly great intensity. Whilst such intensity can [...]
Overexcitabilities in Lockdown: Imaginational Overexcitability
High learning potential children, especially those who display Imaginational Overexcitability, can have the most wonderfully wild imaginations and immense creativity, but they may also find their [...]
The Fabulous Flexi-Cat Diaries Coronavirus Special – Keep Calm…
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 4 Charting the fabulous (and fatiguing!) flexi-Fridays (and currently the rest of the week!) with my OE-rich* 8 year old (currently identifying [...]
Overexcitabilities in Lockdown: Intellectual Overexcitability
High learning potential children, especially those who display Intellectual Overexcitability, are highly curious and voracious in their pursuit of knowledge in their areas of interest. This [...]
Overexcitabilities in Lockdown: Psychomotor Overexcitability
High learning potential children, especially those who display Psychomotor Overexcitability, can be highly energetic, always on the go and may want to be constantly engaged in [...]
What Is Ofsted Looking For In Schools That Will Benefit Our Young People With High Learning Potential?
Ofsted is the inspection body for schools in England Back in March this year I wrote about Ofsted’s consultation on its proposed Education Inspection Framework and [...]