What is Thrive?
The Thrive Approach has been developed over many years helping children to flourish. It supports their emotional and social development and helps them feel happy and secure, able to enjoy friendships, relate well to others and be ready and able to learn.
Thrive is a specific way of working with all children that helps to develop their social and emotional wellbeing, enabling them to engage with life and learning. It supports them in becoming more self-assured, capable and adaptable.
Positive relationships are at the heart of Thrive. We use these relationships, together with play and creative activities, to give children key experiences at each different stage of their development. Repetition of these activities supports their development, helping them to:
• feel good about themselves and know that they matter.
• increase their sense of security and trust.
• increase their emotional well-being.
• improve their capacity to be creative and curious.
• increase their self-esteem and confidence to learn.
• learn to recognise and regulate their feelings.
• learn to think before behaving in a certain way.
We caught up with Louise Newell (KS2/3 Lead) to tell us more.
“I am a Licensed Thrive Practitioner which enables me to plan and deliver Thrive sessions, prepare action plans for other staff to use with students and share Thrive insights with staff.
All KS2 students have a timetabled Thrive lesson once a week and two of our KS3 classes have it timetabled once a week. All other students have informal Thrive sessions throughout the week and during Tutor times.
The sessions are thoroughly enjoyed by all of our students and you can really see a positive difference. We have a lot of fun.”