Thrive
At Priory Infant School, we focus on the emotional well-being and positive school experience for all children. Mr Martin is our Well-being Mentor and works closely with our children to look after their mental health and well-being.
Thrive is a trauma-informed, whole school approach to helping improve the mental health and well-being of children and young people. We use this approach as it addresses emotional development needs, builds resilience and resourcefulness, decreases the risk of mental illness, reinvigorates the learning provision and helps those children who are at risk of underachieving or at risk of exclusion, stay in school and re-engage with learning.
The Thrive approach is preventative, reparative and pragmatic. It helps to prepare an individual for the challenges they may face in life and how to deal with them. Children will develop their emotional literacy and strategies to face challenges head on, in readiness for the next stage of their learning journey.
Thrive is a systematic approach to the early identification of emotional developmental needs in children and enables them to have a tailor-made provision clearly showing the best strategies for their growth. The benefits of addressing the emotional needs of children are many. Thrive teaches children how to find positive ways of handling situations and dealing with emotions.
Children learn how to regulate themselves in order to access learning in class. Children develop trusting relationships with others. It teaches children how to be resilient and resourceful as well as decreasing the risk of mental illness.
Mr Martin enforces this by delivering reparative sessions in 1:1 or group sessions. The children at Priory Infant School are provided with opportunities and experiences that are developed to keep them safe and secure, whilst promoting good social and emotional health. The aim of Thrive and these sessions are to help reinforce good mental health throughout the children's lives.
The children also have Thrive sessions as a whole class with their teachers, which are individual to specific class needs.
no warning. These helpful tips on how to use arts and creativity alongside your
children and young people at home will help you find ways to safely express and
manage emotions, create ‘feel good’ brain chemicals, help reduce stressful
feelings and develop thinking skills.
These activities are designed for you to do together. This is important as it helps
build a strong, supportive relationship, enabling you to explore emotion and
develop a shared language for communicating feelings.
during a walk through the woods, the smell of a campfire might stimulate your
brain to bring back a memory of a similar time, maybe a cub camp or toasting
marshmallows on the fire, in turn this could make you smile or have a warm
feeling. There are some activities below that will engage different senses and help to
develop expressive, emotional language during the activity.
