Staff Training Half-day Top-up (Childhood)

Course Outcomes

This half-day top-up training session 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):

• £520 for up to 20 members of staff
• £1040 for up to 100 members of staff
• £1350 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 children 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 children’s 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 children’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 half-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 two workshops, chosen from a list of six options (A-F below) that you can select based on what is most relevant and useful for your setting. After the second workshop, there's a final set session to close the day.

You can choose from the following workshops:

A. Making Thrive work in unstructured time
B. Developing a whole-school approach
C. Effective ways of communicating with children
D. The Thinking developmental strand (18 months–3 years)
E. The Power and Identity developmental strand (3–7 years)
F. The Skills and Structure developmental strand (7–11 years)