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At the Federation of Fountains & Grewelthorpe Primary Schools we strive to ensure that all our learners experience fulfilment in learning every single day. We aim to support our pupils to be healthy, happy, confident children who are ready and open to learning within the classroom. In order to do this, the priority of all staff is to support children’s social and emotional learning throughout the school day.

WHAT IS THE THRIVE APPROACH?

Thrive is a specific way of working with all children that helps to develop their social and emotional well being, enabling them to engage with life and learning. It supports them in becoming more self-assured, capable and adaptable. It can also address any troubling behaviours providing a firm foundation for academic attainment.
At the Federation of Fountains & Grewelthorpe Primary Schools, we understand that strong, secure and positive relationships help children to explore and understand their feelings and emotions to build emotional wellbeing.
The basis of the Thrive approach within our school is to ensure that all children have the skills to develop and maintain these relationships, to feel good about themselves and increase their sense of security and trust. It gives children key experiences at each stage of their development helping them to learn to regulate and recognise their feelings, increase self esteem and confidence to learn.
Some children need extra support with understanding their emotions and how this links to the behaviours they display. Through positive relationships, together with play and creative activities, the Thrive Approach provides a base to identify children’s emotional needs and provides action plans to help school staff work with the children on their social and emotional learning.

WHAT IS THRIVE ONLINE?

We use Thrive Approach online to help us to identify and plan for children who need extra support. This process starts with whole class screening where class teachers look at the behaviours displayed by the pupils in their class at various times throughout the school day. Thrive online helps us to compare these behaviours with the behaviours we would expect to see for a child at a similar developmental stage.
For some children it is obvious when and why they need extra support with understanding their emotions, such as a bereavement, significant changes within their environment or an identified medical condition. For others, there is no obvious trigger to why they are finding some aspects of school / home life difficult or overwhelming. We work closely with parents and class teachers to carry out assessments, using Thrive online, to identify children’s social, emotional and behavioural needs. We can then create bespoke action plans for children to plan activities in the classroom, or in the Thrive room, to support these needs.

WHO GETS THRIVE TIME?

Everyone!
All school staff have been trained in the Thrive Approach and understand the importance of developing strong, positive and supportive relationships with all pupils in school. Class teachers use Thrive strategies in their classrooms so that everyone can benefit from this approach.
We have a Thrive room in our school – the Rainbow Room, which children can access when they are finding the classroom environment overwhelming.
Some children with additional social and emotional needs may use this room for individual or group sessions to work on their action plan.