What is Thrive? 

The Thrive Approach is a well-established framework designed to support children's emotional and mental well-being. It focuses on understanding the emotional needs of each child and helping them build the skills and resilience they need to thrive in school and life. Using a combination of targeted activities and support, the Thrive Approach aims to nurture social and emotional development, addressing any barriers to learning or personal growth. This approach is tailored to meet individual needs, fostering a sense of safety, confidence, and self-esteem. Our trained Thrive Practitioners work closely with students to ensure they feel supported and understood, enabling them to achieve their full potential.

Who are our Thrive practitioners? 

Why have a Thrive Intervention room? 

Having a Thrive Room offers numerous benefits for students' emotional and mental wellbeing. Here are some key advantages:

Emotional Support

The Thrive Room provides a safe, calm space where students can manage their emotions, reducing stress, anxiety, and emotional outbursts. This support helps children feel secure and understood.

Individualised Care

Students who may struggle with their emotional development can receive tailored interventions that meet their specific needs. This individualised approach helps them build essential emotional and social skills.

Improved Wellbeing

By focusing on social and emotional growth, the Thrive Room helps students develop resilience, confidence and self-esteem, which are crucial for academic success and personal development.

Enhanced Learning: Students who receive emotional support are better able to engage with their learning. By addressing emotional barriers, the Thrive Room enables pupils to focus and participate fully in school life.

Prevention and Early Intervention: The Thrive approach allows for early identification of emotional or behavioural issues, helping to prevent them from escalating and ensuring that students receive the right support at the right time. 

We know that children and young people may face additional barriers to

their education including mental health concerns, and we want to ensure

that all young people have support and that their families, schools and

other professionals are able to provide the right support.

The Connect Mental Health Support Team works with 40 local schools to

deliver low and moderate intensity interventions to support pupils with low

mood, anxiety, and poor self-esteem. 

By working with our communities, schools, parents and carers and young

people the service aims to encourage early treatment and prevention to

decrease the number of children and young people requiring long term

mental health support. This is done by providing information, advice,

guidance, and support.

The team supports schools to develop their whole school approach to

emotional wellbeing and signposts to other relevant services to ensure the

needs of children and young people are met in a timely way.

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