"Everyone feels the value" at Ofsted Outstanding Cullompton school
24th October 2019 | News | Case Studies
Cullompton Pre-School Leader Amelia Joyner completed her Licenced Practitioner training in 2018 and is already seeing the benefits of adopting the Thrive Approach across the whole setting. The pre-sc...
Handing out pen licences? 4 things to consider
26th July 2019 | Blogs
Pen licences are used to motivate children to develop their handwriting to a required level. However, there is a need to balance this approach for those children who may not yet, or ever, develop par...
Dr Suzanne Zeedyk: How the language we use shapes our practice
20th June 2019 | Blogs
Based at the University of Dundee, Dr Zeedyk is fascinated by babies' innate capacity to connect. She has worked tirelessly to help the public understand the importance of emotional connection for hu...
Building a positive sense of self: A guest post by Ruth Radcliffe
2nd April 2019 | Blogs
Building a positive sense of self with Thrive: a guest blog by Ruth Radcliffe At Joseph Norton in KS2, we spend our afternoons participating in Thrive activities that help us build a positive sense o...
Train with Thrive to meet Ofsted's 2019 framework
5th February 2019 | News
With Ofsted now proposing to look at both the personal development and behaviour of students as separate judgements during inspection, the impact of the Thrive Approach could not be more relevant. &n...
Thrive's Aberdare cluster treated to powerful wellbeing conference
25th January 2019 | News
Suzanne Zeedyk, the renowned childhood development research scientist, took to the stage at the University of South Wales to deliver an empowering keynote speech at a conference promoting children's...
BBC documentary explores how Thrive helped reduce behavioural problems in school
5th December 2018 | News
Certain classroom behaviours are compromising the learning potential of many at Mangotsfield School in Bristol. Last night BBC Two aired their documentary 'School', a film exploring how Thrive is use...
Why school exclusions are not the answer
4th December 2018 | Blogs
Donna Ellison became the Head Teacher of Whitnash Primary School in Leamington Spa in 2016. She arrived to a school in chaos but firmly believes that exclusions are not the answer. Taking a more unde...
How the Thrive Approach benefits pupils with SEND
23rd November 2018 | Blogs
The ONECPD SEND Conference took place in Salford on Wednesday 14th November. After both exhibiting and running a Thrive seminar, our Relationship Manager for Wales, Joey Bowers, talks to us about his...