Inclusion in schools starts with understanding need.
Thrive gives schools, trusts and partners a shared, evidence-backed way to identify children and young people’s social and emotional needs earlier, respond with confidence and improve inclusion, attendance, behaviour, wellbeing and readiness to learn.
Become a Thrive School For trusts & partnerships
Independently evaluated impact
Evidence-backed approach to inclusion, SEMH and behaviour in schools
where thrive makes a difference
Measurable change in the areas schools are under pressure to improve.
SEND & Inclusion
Strengthen inclusive provision so pupils with SEND, and others facing barriers to learning or belonging are supported.
Pupil Wellbeing
Help pupils feel settled and ready to learn, so they can take part more fully in lessons and school life.
Behaviour
Reduce disruption and escalation by helping staff understand the need behind behaviour and respond consistently.
School Attendance
Understand barriers to attendance and respond to the emotional factors that can sit behind persistent absence.
Staff Wellbeing
Build staff confidence, consistency and shared language so teams feel better equipped to respond to pupils’ needs.
Public & System Value
Support pupils earlier, reduce avoidable escalation and ease pressure on schools and wider services.
Our Products
Explore Thrive
Who is this for
A clear pathway, whether you lead one school or many
Build a consistent approach to inclusion, SEMH and behaviour across your school
Thrive gives your team a shared way to understand behaviour, emotional development and the needs behind everyday challenges. Staff build the confidence to identify need earlier and respond more consistently.
Thrive can help you:
- Build consistent practice across classrooms, rooms or groups
- Strengthen staff confidence in responding to children and young people’s needs
- Support inclusion and reduce avoidable escalation
- Understand the emotional needs behind attendance, engagement and readiness to learn
- Use Thrive-Online to assess, plan and track support
- Evidence progress for governors, inspection and improvement planning
Understand need across settings and strengthen inclusive practice at scale
Thrive gives trusts, local authorities and partners a shared framework for understanding behaviour, emotional development and SEMH needs across settings, helping teams respond earlier and more consistently.
Thrive can help you:
- Build a clearer picture of need across schools and settings
- Create a shared language around behaviour, inclusion and emotional development
- Strengthen mainstream provision and reduce reliance on exclusion
- Support staff confidence and consistency across teams
- Evidence impact for governance, inspection and strategic planning
- Use resources more effectively by helping teams identify and respond to need earlier
Build confidence supporting behaviour, SEMH and emotional development
Whether you support pupils every day, lead on wellbeing or inclusion, or want to develop your career, Thrive training helps you understand behaviour and emotional development through a relational lens.
Thrive can help you:
- Understand the emotional needs behind behaviour
- Build confidence supporting pupils with different needs
- Develop practical skills you can use in your setting
- Work towards recognised Thrive Licensed Practitioner status or other qualifications
- Progress through practitioner training, leadership routes or funded apprenticeships
- Support consistent practice across your school or organisation
The Process
How it works
Thrive gives schools a structured, shared framework, from initial assessment through to whole-school strategy.
Every step is grounded in developmental science and designed to be applied consistently by all staff.
This improves what happens in classrooms today, while building the foundations for long-term change. More than 75,000 educators are already part of the Thrive community.
See beyond the behaviour itself and understand the emotional and developmental needs that may be driving it.
Spot emerging needs sooner and put the right support in place before difficulties grow or become barriers to learning.
Create a shared understanding and approach so staff respond with greater confidence and consistency.
Strengthen relationships, support regulation and help young people stay connected to learning and school life.
Use Thrive-Online to monitor development, measure impact and make informed decisions about support and provision.
Real Impact
See the impact at Masefield Primary School
See how one school uses Thrive to build a shared understanding of behaviour, wellbeing and emotional development across the whole setting.
INCLUSIVE MAINSTREAM FUND CHECKLIST
Is your setting ready for the Inclusive Mainstream Fund?
Eligible settings in England can use the Inclusive Mainstream Fund to move towards practice that is inclusive by design. Download our practical IMF checklist to work through the seven inclusion themes, reflect on your current provision and identify next steps for embedding inclusive practice across your setting.
Take the next step toward lasting change across your school or system.
Join 2,600+ schools and thousands of educators using Thrive to strengthen inclusion and transform practice.