Embedding Thrive as a Whole School Approach
A short film demonstrating how a school in the North East adopted Thrive as a whole school approach. The film shows how a positive difference and impact was made to the school using Thrive. Includes interviews with children, teaching staff and parents.
Transcript
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| 00:00 | I think you should have Thrive because it's a real benefit to the school, and it helps a lot of children around school, always helped cheer you up, and make it feel safe inside school. |
| 00:10 | Thrive is somewhere that people can feel welcomed. |
| 00:14 | Thrive is a very calming place. |
| 00:16 | We have been learning about Oxytocin. |
| 00:19 | They will kinda get you back into your Neocortex brain, and Limbic brain, and start making you think about what's happened. |
| 00:27 | You ought to sit back and breath when you're done. |
| 00:30 | And then we ought to touch you, and you smile at someone, and they smile back. |
| 00:38 | Thrive is an approach that we use wholeheartedly to make a difference to children. |
| 00:44 | It's an embedded lifelong change. |
| 00:47 | It's the whole school culture using Thrive in our school. |
| 00:50 | And it makes a big difference because its used in every part of school, and not just as a certain subject. |
| 00:56 | It's embedded in our classrooms, we have Thrive objectives in our planning. |
| 00:59 | We have Thrive Circle Time. |
| 01:01 | And it makes a big difference. You know all the staff know why we are doing it, and the children know why we are doing it. |
| 01:05 | And it's not just a Thrive hour for that session. |
| 01:08 | We use it in Maths, in Literacy, when we're out on the playground, at PE, at dinnertime. |
| 01:12 | You know the dinner ladies have had some training alongside Thrive Practitioners about how to deal with children when they are outside. |
| 01:18 | When I came, the school was in a bit of a crisis. |
| 01:22 | We needed to do something really quickly here. |
| 01:24 | So we decided to move with Thrive. |
| 01:28 | We were brave, we went with it, and we actually put it in as a centre core for the rest of the work we were doing. |
| 01:37 | In trying to support the school in turning around, and improving. |
| 01:41 | We began to see changes in children, because they became much more steady with themselves, and steady in the classroom. |
| 01:49 | Several times a year we do an entire school screening. |
| 01:53 | So we use the class screening tools for Thrive Online. |
| 01:57 | We have a Thrive Practitioner sit in along side the rest of the staff that work with those children in that classroom. |
| 02:03 | And together they look at each child and they screen those children. |
| 02:08 | I went on my Thrive training about 18 months ago. |
| 02:11 | And from the day one of training it had a really big impact on my teaching and practice. |
| 02:15 | We knew that if we were going to introduce something, it would have to be transformational. |
| 02:23 | It's a huge impact in our school. |
| 02:25 | A couple of years ago when we had out OFSTED inspection, our children said to us that they were not happy. |
| 02:30 | And that really struck a chord. |
| 02:32 | And in October 2014 we had an HMI visit, and the children said to her they were happy in school. |
| 02:38 | The one thing that Thrive Online allows us to do is to measure exactly what improvements this type of work is helping us do. |
| 02:47 | Now we weren't able to do that with anything other than Thrive Online. |
| 02:51 | Outside of the Thrive Online system, then we've got our SATs results, which were on a downward trend. |
| 02:57 | And they're starting to move up and be much steadier now. |
| 03:02 | We have got improved attendance, improved punctuality, reduction in fixed term exclusions. |
| 03:10 | We've never permanently excluded a child during the time that I've been here. |
| 03:14 | We got greater engagement at playtimes. |
| 03:17 | Fewer disruptive learning behaviour instances. |
| 03:21 | Thrive has had an amazing impact on my children. |
| 03:24 | It's unbelievable. Leanne's behaviour is amazing now. |
| 03:29 | I mean we were worried that she would get kicked out of school at one point. |
| 03:33 | She's a completely different child. |
| 03:35 | Joseph has just absolutely soared, form being on this Thrive programme. |
| 03:39 | His emotional side is really, really grown in confidence. |
| 03:44 | And just got a better attitude, and a better outlook. |
| 03:47 | As a Mum the change has been unbelievable. |