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Become the Change – Support Your Pupils

All young people need support. They need their emotional and social needs understood and met. These can be hard to understand - both for young people and for the adults around them. Vicki was met with this obstacle...then she found the Thrive Approach and became the change her young people needed. Read about her experience below.

Vicki and the Fortis Academy - From Disruption to Growth

The School

Fortis Academy is a large secondary school in Birmingham with around 1,800 pupils. Around 47 per cent of pupils qualify for pupil premium funding and above average numbers of pupils have English as an additional language and are eligible free school meals.

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Finding Thrive

Vicki Williams moved to a role leading the KS3 and mentioned the Thrive Approach to a senior leadership team member who had also heard positive reports about the training. Based on these recommendations, Vicki felt that Thrive would give pupils the resilience and life skills they needed and would help to lower incidents of classroom disruptions. She also believed that Thrive would help pupils whose social skills had been adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Result

In September 2020, Vicki and a higher level teaching assistant started their Thrive Licensed Practitioner training while a member of the school’s senior leadership team completed Thrive’s Senior Leader training course. Using Thrive to take a preventative approach to mental health problems has helped the school respond to the needs of its pupils in the wake of the pandemic

“Our pupils are more resilient now as a result of Thrive and this will mean that their grades will increase. Thrive is teaching them empathy and to take on another person’s point of view, which has helped their window of tolerance to grow.Parents love what Thrive has done for their children. We get quite a few parents who say they would love to know what we have done in school so that they can do it at home!"

lead at Fortis Academy

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