Leading Emotionally Healthy
Secondary Schools
Learn how to lead a whole school approach to emotional wellbeing and create a culture where relationships are stronger, behaviour is understood and young people stay connected to learning.
Designed for secondary school senior leaders responsible for wellbeing, safeguarding, SEND, behaviour 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 secondary schools
Leading emotionally healthy SECONDARY schools
Overview
Secondary schools are under growing pressure to improve attendance, reduce disruption and support wellbeing across the school community. Many leaders are looking for approaches that strengthen relationships, improve consistency and help young people stay engaged with learning.
This course explores how social and emotional development shapes behaviour, engagement and readiness to learn during adolescence. Across four live virtual sessions, you will explore how the Thrive Approach can support a more relational and trauma-sensitive culture across your school.
By the end of the course, you'll have a clearer plan for embedding Thrive in your school, supporting staff confidence and using Thrive-Online insights to guide strategic decision-making and long-term implementation.
Leading emotionally healthy SECONDARY 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 adolescent development influences behaviour, relationships and learning.
- Lead conversations about behaviour and wellbeing with greater clarity and confidence.
- Explore how Thrive supports a consistent whole school approach.
- Use Thrive-Online insights and data to support decision-making.
- Leave with a practical plan for introducing or strengthening Thrive in your school.
- A more consistent approach to behaviour and relationships across the school.
- Stronger foundations for a trauma-sensitive school culture.
- Better visibility of patterns, needs and progress across your school community.
- Clear evidence of impact for leaders, governors and inspection.
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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 strengthen relationships, improve consistency and support emotional wellbeing across your school community.
You’ll explore:
- The links between social and emotional development, behaviour, engagement and learning outcomes.
- How adolescent brain and body development influences behaviour, relationships and readiness to learn.
- How the Thrive developmental model helps staff understand behaviour and relationships.
- How Thrive-Online data can be used to evidence progress and inform practice.
- How school systems, policies and routines can support or interrupt emotional development.
- How to build a more relational and trauma-sensitive 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 secondary school.
You will leave with:
- A clearer vision for strengthening emotional wellbeing across your setting.
- Greater confidence leading a whole school approach to wellbeing.
- Insight into how Thrive-Online data can support strategic decision-making.
- A framework for identifying and supporting Thrive leads within your school.
- Practical resources to support long-term implementation and development.
How the course works
The course is delivered through four live virtual training sessions designed for senior leaders in secondary education.
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 SECONDARY 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
Thrive has enabled us to identify the barriers to learning that pupils have and to remove them. It has improved the culture for staff because teachers want to teach, they don’t want to spend all their time managing disruption. If students are calm and ready to learn, staff feel happier and more fulfilled too.”
Jayne Curd
Senior Leader for Behaviour, Meridian High School
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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.
Yes. This course is recommended for schools beginning their Thrive journey as well as those looking to strengthen their whole-school approach to emotional wellbeing.
The course is delivered across four live virtual sessions:
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.