Thrive

At Crookesbroom Primary Academy, we embrace ‘The Thrive Approach’ to improve and support children’s personal development, their mental health and ultimately ensuring they are ready to learn. The Thrive Approach includes a holistic, whole school approach which runs alongside our PSHE curriculum, as well as an intervention for those children identified as needing additional support.

The Thrive Approach has been developed over many years to help children flourish. It supports their emotional and social development and helps them feel happy and secure; it enables children to enjoy friendships; to relate well to others and be ready and able to learn.

Thrive supports our children to become more self-assured, capable, and adaptable. It can also address any troubling behaviours providing a firm foundation for academic attainment.

Positive relationships are at the heart of Thrive. We use these relationships, together with play and creative activities, to give children key experiences at each different stage of their development.

The Thrive Approach draws on the latest research into brain science, child development theory and attachment theory. It helps us to understand how babies’ and children’s brains develop, and how parents, teachers and other professionals can best support this development by providing the best experiences for the children at each stage.

Thrive also helps us to better understand the children’s needs that are being signalled by their behaviour. Sometimes children may struggle as a result of temporary setbacks or other, long-term changes in their lives such as a separation, a bereavement, a family illness, or accident, or even the arrival of a new baby. Children may signal their distress by becoming more withdrawn, distant, or perhaps by displaying more challenging or disruptive behaviours, or even by trying too hard to please.

If this happens, we use Thrive to look beyond the behaviour to give these children the support they need to get back on track. Sometimes they only need a little extra support in class and sometimes they may need additional one-to-one time to help them along.

We use a screening tool and activity planning resource called Thrive-Online. This allows us to check that children are working appropriately for their age and helps identify any children in need of extra support. Children who are identified through Thrive-Online will receive bespoke support in the form of small group or one-to-one sessions. These sessions will be delivered by licensed Thrive practitioners.

At Crookesbroom, our licensed Thrive practitioners are: Mrs Thorpe, Miss Ingram, Mrs Oglesby and Miss Rickaby.

For further information on the Thrive approach please click on the download below: