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Course Information
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Course overview
This course will provide you with a good understanding of how Thrive works as a whole-school approach to support the optimal social and emotional development of all children. In addition, the course will demonstrate how to use Thrive-Online, our profiling, measuring and monitoring tool, for group screening and action-planning, and explore some of the strategies and activities that can be used for right-time support with children in group settings.
To be recognised as a Thrive Emotional Health Practitioner status, you will need to be an authorised user of Thrive-Online, a profiling, measuring and monitoring tool, through a whole-setting subscription.
Suitable for
Building Emotional Health in Childhood is ideal for any practitioner working alongside primary school aged children (4 to 11 year olds) - teachers, teaching assistants, support staff and mealtime assistants - looking to introduce the Thrive Approach as a whole-school wellbeing programme for right-time social and emotional development.
If you need to reschedule your course attendance because you have Covid or have to isolate, the first rearrangement is free, a subsequent rearrangement will incur an admin fee of £50 plus VAT and any further rescheduling will be charged at £100 plus VAT.
If sessions need to be rearranged for any other reason, the first rearrangement is free and any further rescheduling will be charged at £100 plus VAT.
For settings that would like to commission a face-to-face training session, there is a flat rate charge of £300 per trainer per day (or part thereof) plus VAT.
Please note prices are for courses starting on or after 1 September 2022.
Course content
The training will cover:
- The Thrive Approach and its underpinning theory and established neuroscience
- The links between social and emotional development and maximising learning potential to raise standards of achievement
- How to develop a classroom-focussed, trauma-sensitive approach to support social and emotional health of all children
- Appropriate expectations of behaviour at right-time development stages and how to support the development of these
- Using the Thrive-Online assessment and action-planning tool to screen all children in your class for right-time emotional and social development
- Interpreting the Thrive-Online data to plan specific strategies and activities that support the wellbeing of all children in your class
- Incorporating strategies and activities into your everyday curriculum, routines and structures
- Evidencing the progress of children and demonstrating the impact of the Thrive Approach
- The role of Thrive Licensed Practitioners and how to support them effectively.
Course structure
The course is delivered as four 3-hour live webinars:
- Session 1 - Thinking about ourselves and our self-awareness.
- Session 2 - Thrive as a right-time approach for supporting the wellbeing of all children.
- Session 3 - Theory and practice for 3 to 7 year olds.
- Session 4 - Theory and practice for 7 to 11 year olds.
Course outcomes
By the end of this course you will be equipped with the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to take a practical approach to embedding Thrive in your classroom to support the wellbeing of all children. You will be able to use the Thrive Approach as a daily resource to support age-appropriate social and emotional development for every child to improve their learning outcomes.
If you would like to further develop your understanding with a more reparative focus, you may be interested in the Thrive Licensed Practitioner training.