Become a Thrive School

A practical, evidence-informed approach to supporting social and emotional development, strengthening inclusion, and helping more children and young people feel settled, supported and ready to learn.

Thrive helps schools build consistent practice across the team, so they can respond effectively to a wide range of needs and support every child and young person to thrive. 

 

Find your setting

Thrive works across every phase of education. The principles stay the same; how they are applied changes.

Early Years

Early Years settings

Strong emotional foundations start early. 
Thrive supports young children to feel safe, build relationships and begin to regulate, laying the foundations for learning and development from the very start. 

Thrive in Early Years

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Primary schools

Supporting a wide range of needs in the classroom. 
 Thrive helps primary schools build consistent, relational practice across the whole team, supporting attendance, strengthening wellbeing and helping children feel ready to learn.

Thrive in Primary schools

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Secondary schools

Exclusions don’t fix what sits underneath. 
Thrive supports secondary schools to address complex need through targeted support, helping staff work relationally so young people can develop regulation strategies, strengthen belonging and stay connected to school. 

Thrive in Secondary schools

Special Schools

Special schools

Complex needs require specialist understanding.  
Thrive supports a whole-school, relational approach, helping staff understand each child’s development, track small-step progress, and respond consistently across multidisciplinary teams. 

Thrive in Special schools

 

Academy Trust or leading more than one school?

Thrive works with trusts, local authorities and strategic partners to support a consistent, evidence-informed approach across multiple schools.

This helps strengthen inclusion strategy, improve consistency across settings, and reduce reliance on reactive and high-cost interventions. 

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Trusts

Independently evaluated impact

The Thrive Approach has been independently evaluated by ImpactEd through analysis of
over 2,600 schools and two-year mixed methods study

Schools using Thrive show:

up to 38% reduction in sever absences
27% lower exclusion rates than the national average
Average SEND wellbeing score stat

View the evaluation 

 

Not sure which route is right for you?

If you would like to talk through your options, book a conversation with a member of our team.
These 30-minute discussions provide space to consider your context, priorities and funding routes, and whether Thrive is the right fit for your school.
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