Staff Training Full-day Top-up (Adolescence)

Course Outcomes

This one-day top-up training for all staff will further develop your whole-school approach to promoting emotional health and mental wellbeing.

Who is it for?

This course is intended for all staff in a secondary school or setting embedding the Thrive Approach who have already completed an induction or Staff Training Day, to ensure that all young people benefit from a whole-school approach to wellbeing and positive mental health.

Costs (excluding VAT):

• £1,040 for up to 20 members of staff
• £2,080 for up to 100 members of staff
• £2,700 for over 100 members of staff

Please note this course can only be booked through the office (Tel: 01392 797555 Option 1).

For settings that would like to commission a face-to-face training session, there is a flat rate charge of £490 per trainer per day (or part thereof) plus VAT.

Please note: prices are for courses starting on or after 1 September 2025.

What you'll learn

• Provide your staff with an opportunity to review the key theories underpinning the Thrive Approach to enable them to support the social and emotional development of all young people in your setting
• Support your setting’s SLT and Thrive licensed practitioners with the process of embedding a whole-school approach to Thrive
• Support all staff to develop a greater understanding of young peoples needs, at both the right-time in their development and where they may have gaps in their earlier development
• Equip all staff with some basic tools and strategies for supporting any behaviours arising from young people’s unmet needs
• Support all staff to share knowledge and skills across the organisation, promoting staff wellbeing, co-operation, and information-sharing
• Enable you to tailor the learning to reflect the specific needs of your staff.

Course structure

This one-day top-up training session consists of two set topics: the introduction, comprising the course aims and learning outcomes, and Thrive Essentials, covering underpinning theory.

This is followed by a selection of six short workshops (A–G below) from which you can choose the four that you consider the most relevant and useful to your setting. After the fourth workshop, there is a final set session to close the day.

You can choose from the following workshops:

A. Creating a culture of belonging
B. Bridging the gap
C. Understanding the relate–rupture–repair cycle
D. Supporting young people to manage conflict
E. Supporting young people to develop emotional intelligence
F. Supporting young people in moments of overwhelm
G. Using Thrive-Online to support right-time learning in the classroom