Thrive

At Salisbury Manor Primary School, we strongly believe in the Thrive approach. Thrive is a dynamic, developmental approach to working with children that supports their emotional and social wellbeing. It is based on the latest research in neuroscience, attachment theory and child development, drawing on research into the role of creativity and play in developing emotional resilience. Thrive is used at our school to help support children with their emotional and social development.

The Thrive approach offers practical strategies and techniques and is built around assessments which identify children’s emotional development and provides action plans for each child’s individual needs.

Research has shown that how we behave is linked to how we feel, and our emotions are linked to how we learn. By supporting children to recognise and notice these feelings and emotions it can help with their development and learning. People sometimes need some additional support with their emotional growth, which can be temporary or over a longer time frame. Thrive promotes their emotional and social growth by building positive relationships and helps children to explore and understand their feelings through various activities.

Thrive is a whole school approach. We all believe that behaviour is communication, and the communication needs to be understood and supported. Thrive feeds into everything that we do and although not all children will have individual Thrive sessions, all children will be participating in Thrive activities throughout their school day.

We use the following guiding principles of the Thrive Approach:

• Every child is a unique person, constantly developing and learning in different ways and at different rates, each with their own abilities, talents and potential to be fulfilled.
• Children’s healthy development, emotional well-being and learning are crucially dependent upon, and promoted through, positive relationships.
• Children flourish when they are confident, self-assured, capable and resilient.
• Children thrive in enabling environments, in which their individual development, learning experiences and needs are understood, responded to and supported through strong partnerships with parents/carers.

Our current Thrive practitioners are Miss Ward & Miss Tomkins. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Miss Ward via the school office to ask for more information.