Leading Emotionally Healthy Primary Schools
Learn how to lead a whole-school approach to emotional wellbeing and create an environment where children and staff feel safe, supported and ready to learn.
Designed for primary school senior leaders responsible for wellbeing, safeguarding, SEND or pastoral leadership.
Duration
12 hours
4 x 3-hr sessions
Format
Live online training
Thrive-Online Access
30 days free
Investment
£660 + VAT
Designed for
Senior leaders in primary schools
Leading emotionally healthy primary schools
Overview
The Leading Emotionally Healthy Primary Schools course helps you understand how children’s emotional development influences behaviour, relationships and learning.
Through four live virtual sessions, you’ll explore how the Thrive Approach can support emotional wellbeing across your whole school.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer vision for creating a school environment where children feel safe, understood and ready to learn, and where staff feel confident supporting their emotional development.
Leading emotionally healthy primary schools
Benefits
Create a calmer, more consistent school culture where staff understand the needs behind behaviour, respond with confidence and use clear evidence to show the impact of your wellbeing approach.
- Understand how emotional development shapes behaviour and learning.
- Lead staff conversations about behaviour and wellbeing with confidence.
- See how Thrive supports a whole-school approach to wellbeing.
- Use Thrive-Online insights to inform leadership decisions.
- Leave with a clear plan to introduce or embed Thrive in your school.
- Stronger strategic oversight of emotional wellbeing across the school.
- Clear direction when introducing or embedding the Thrive Approach.
- Greater confidence leading staff discussions around behaviour and emotional health.
- A stronger foundation for building a whole school Thrive approach.
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Programme details
What you'll learn
Throughout the training, you will reflect on your own setting and consider how the Thrive Approach could support emotional wellbeing in your school.
You’ll explore:
- The links between social and emotional development and learning How behaviour can reflect a child’s developmental needs.
- How the Thrive developmental model helps staff understand behaviour.
- How Thrive-Online screens, assesses and monitors groups and individuals.
- How Thrive-Online data can be used to evidence progress and impact.
- How school policies and procedures influence emotional development.
- How to build a trauma-sensitive and relational approach across your school.
What you'll gain
By completing the course, you will gain a strategic understanding of how the Thrive Approach can support emotional wellbeing across your school.
You will leave with:
- A clearer vision for supporting emotional wellbeing in your setting.
- Greater confidence leading a whole-school approach to social and emotional development.
- Insight into how Thrive-Online data can support decision-making.
- A framework for identifying and supporting Thrive leads.
- Practical resources to help you embed Thrive across your school.
How the course works
The course is delivered through four virtual training sessions designed for senior leaders.
You’ll explore:
- Four 3-hour live online training sessions with Thrive specialists.
- Strategic discussion with other school leaders.
- Guided exploration of Thrive-Online tools and data.
- Reflection on your school’s culture, policies and practice.
- Practical planning for embedding Thrive across your school.
Training is delivered by experienced Thrive specialists who work with schools across the UK.
Course duration: 12 hours (four 3-hour sessions over 4 weeks)
Leading emotionally healthy primary schools
Who this course is for
This course is designed for senior leaders responsible for wellbeing and school culture.
- Heads
- Deputy Heads
- School Governors
- Pastoral Leaders
- SENCOs
- Senior or middle leaders responsible for SEMH
We have seen first-hand the impact that Thrive has had on children, their families and the staff at our school.”
Selina Frazer
Co-Headteacher, Hunters Hall Primary School
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Choose your start date
Choose a start date below and book the option that works best for your school.
Our June 2026 start dates
PA10188 - Leading Emotionally Healthy Primary Schools
Start date: 23rd June 2026
End date: 1st July 2026
4 Sessions
5 Places left
£660 ex VAT
Session dates:
- Tue 23rd June 2026 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Wed 24th June 2026 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Tue 30th June 2026 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
- Wed 1st July 2026 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
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Fees & next steps
Course fee: £660 + VATChoose a training date above to view the full session schedule and book your place.
Thrive-Online access: 30-day free access to Thrive-Online is included for participants who do not already have a subscription.
Session 1
Introducing Thrive at a strategic level and exploring your school’s current strengths, challenges and priorities.
Session 2
Supporting staff teams to understand the Thrive developmental model, use Thrive-Online confidently and apply data insights to practice and decision-making.
Session 3
Supporting staff to understand rupture and repair in relationships, strengthen relational practice and explore how Thrive links to the graduated response.
Session 4
Planning for long-term implementation across your school, developing provision and embedding Thrive into everyday practice and culture.
Yes. Many schools choose to send more than one leader so they can build a shared understanding of how Thrive can support emotional wellbeing across the school.
Yes. The course builds across four sessions and full attendance ensures you gain the understanding needed to embed Thrive across your school.
Access to Thrive-Online is required to explore the tools used in the course. If your school does not currently have access, a 30-day free trial is available.
Yes. Settings can commission face-to-face training. There is a flat rate charge of £470 per trainer per day (or part thereof), plus VAT.