If you’re a skilled and experienced Thrive Licensed Practitioner or Course Leader and are passionate about spreading the word of Thrive, why not become a Thrive trainer? Our new, enhanced Thrive Train-the-Trainer course has more in-depth, comprehensive and up-to-date content along with revised e-learning modules. The improved format has fewer face-to-face training days and more time focused … Continued
This spring we will be launching a new magazine for our members and would love to feature photos, stories, questions and top tips from our wonderful Thrive community. Please read through the criteria below and send your submissions to liz.parks@thriveapproach.com by Friday 13 March 2020. Thrive rooms and activities Do you have an amazing … Continued
The founder of Help Me, I’m Fine, which is Thrive’s chosen charity, has been awarded a Points of Light Award by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Helen Cousin set up the charity to help promote children’s mental health after her 16-year-old daughter, Maisie, took her own life in 2017. Since then she has published a … Continued
Background Manor Infant School is a three-form entry school in Farnborough, Hampshire. The school was introduced to the Thrive Approach in 2017, when Headteacher Emma Dare trained as a Thrive Licensed Practitioner along with the school’s Behaviour Support Worker. Situated in a diverse catchment area, with levels of deprivation in two wards among the highest … Continued
Enter our World Book Day competition to be in with the chance of winning a selection of best-selling books for your setting. Plus, the winning artists will also receive a voucher to buy themselves a book of their choice. This World Book Day, we would like the children and young people in your setting … Continued
Thrive has raised a total of £500 for a charity which works to support children’s mental health. Thrive, which works with schools and other organisations to help children become more emotionally resilient, chose Help Me, I’m Fine as its charity of the year for 2019. Help Me, I’m Fine was set up by Helen Cousin, … Continued
Is the Thrive Approach® at the heart of your school? Is your setting leading the way in developing happy, emotionally-resilient children? We would like to celebrate the commitment of the extraordinary schools that are making a positive impact on their pupils and the wider community by welcoming your school to the Thrive Ambassador and Schools … Continued
The Need Bentley New Village Primary School, in Doncaster, currently has 272 pupils but numbers can vary from 260 to 300. It is based in a deprived community which has high levels of unemployment and the school has a much higher than average level of pupil premium support at around 50 per cent. The school … Continued
The Need The Bewbush Academy is a primary school in West Sussex with a three-form intake and 580 pupils. It is in a socially diverse community with many parents who work shifts, including a large number at the nearby Gatwick Airport. Fifty per cent of pupils are learning English as an additional language (EAL) and … Continued
Last year, we commissioned a survey of Thrive® practitioners in primary schools. We wanted to find out how Thrive is being used and to understand what the impact of the Approach has been. Almost 500 responses were received, representing 22 per cent of the schools we work with. This gave us plenty of data to … Continued
