Emotional wellbeing and resilience at the heart of teaching
Connected - The Thrive® Podcast
Release Date: 10/09/2019
How we created a school to meet the needs of deaf students – and the role Thrive plays in this
Connected - The Thrive® Podcast
The latest episode of Thrive’s Connected podcast features Mark Stokes, Partnership and Community Manager at the Deaf Academy, in Exmouth, Devon. The Academy is one of around 18 specialist schools for deaf children and young people in the UK. It has 66 pupils aged from 9 to 25-years-old and uses the Thrive Approach to help pupils to feel emotionally-regulated and ready to learn. Listen to the 17-minute podcast to gain: An understanding of the intersection between hearing loss and social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs An insight into how the Academy...
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Taking a diocese-wide approach to creating an anti-bullying culture
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The latest episode of Thrive’s Connected podcast is celebrating National Bullying Prevention Month. In this episode, we’re joined by Jo Warner, Assistant Director of Education on the Joint Education Team of the Durham and Newcastle Diocesan Boards of Education. Jo talks about the guidance that church schools receive around bullying and how the 106 schools she works with put this into practice. Listen to the 9-minute podcast to discover: An outline of the Church of England guidance for schools, Valuing All God’s Children and how this relates to...
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Creating an anti-bullying culture across a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT)
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The latest episode of Thrive’s Connected podcast is celebrating National Bullying Prevention Month. In this episode, we’re joined by Beryce Nixon, CEO of the Exceed Learning Partnership, who explains how her MAT creates an anti-bullying culture across its settings. As well as discussing how the curriculum plays an important role in creating this culture, Beryce also explains how a MAT-wide approach can support schools, while still giving the freedom to respond to the needs of their own communities. Listen to the 21-minute podcast to discover: Why MATs need to...
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We’re a Thrive School of Excellence for mental wellbeing – here's what we do for pupils, staff and parents
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In this episode, we focus on Rose Lane Primary School, in East London, which is a Thrive School of Excellence for mental health. Katie Parks, the school’s Counsellor, Mental Health Lead and Thrive Lead explains how mental wellbeing unlocks attendance and attainment and how the right structures, including having a Designated Mental Health Lead, can make the difference in terms of supporting pupils.
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How to build trusting and open relationships with parents and carers
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The latest episode of Thrive’s focuses on how educators can create and maintain good relationships with parents and carers. In the podcast, Rose Webb, Thrive’s Policy, Practice and Innovation lead, explains the benefits that a trusting and open relationship between home and school can bring for staff, parents and carers and, of course, for children and young people. “Children and young people transition between home and school and there are lots of experiences that happen in between. If there is a supportive relationship between home and school it means that children understand that...
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Behaviour: How to engage with hard-to-reach children
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In this episode, we’re talking about behaviour and the importance of asking why a child or young person is behaving the way they are. My guest is author, behaviour specialist and teacher Adele Bates who works with specialist and mainstream schools in the UK and abroad on everything from writing behaviour policies to tackling aggressive behaviour in the classroom. Adele will be delivering a CPD keynote for Thrive later this spring looking at how educators can engage with hard-to-reach children whose behaviour may be particularly concerning. Listen to discover: ...
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LGBTQIA+ and mental health: what educators need to know
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In this episode, we’re talking about gender and sexuality and why it’s important to consider them when talking to children and young people about mental health and wellbeing. My guest is education consultant and former deputy headteacher Ian Timbrell, who trains staff to create a genuinely inclusive culture of diversity when it comes to LGBTQIA+. Ian will be delivering two CPD sessions for Thrive in the next few months giving practical tips about how primary and secondary school staff can respond to children and young people who want to have conversations around gender and sexuality....
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Toileting and continence in schools: why it’s about mental as well as physical health
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In this episode we are talking about toileting and continence. It’s still seen as a taboo subject – something that our guest, Thrive Licensed Practitioner, Cathryn Giles, is passionate about changing. Cathryn is an Early Years Transition Worker in the Education Service at Cardiff Council. As part of her role, Cathryn does outreach works with schools in Cardiff to support pupils who are having problems with continence and toileting. This includes a wide range of issues across all age groups – from very young children who insist on staying in nappies through to teenagers who have...
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Neuroscience: what classroom staff need to know
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In this episode we are talking about neuroscience and how educators can use it to build effective connections with the children and young people they teach. Our guest today is Thrive Partnerships Lead and former teacher, Senco and headteacher, Kay Hamilton. Kay is a passionate advocate for the use of neuroscience in understanding classroom behaviour and in creating relationships that enable change to take place. Listen in to discover: How to translate neuroscience into effective classroom practice An explanation of the role of serotonin, dopamine...
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Cortisol in the classroom: Behaviours to look out for (and how schools can help)
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“If families are stressed, it will be having an impact on children in school.” The cost-of-living crisis was recently identified as the leading cause of anxiety in young people. In this 3-minute video, Thrive’s Head of Partnerships, Lee Prichard, talks about the impact a cortisol increase can have on pupils’ behaviour in the classroom, the signs to look out for, and how educators can help. Press play to get started.
info_outlineIn this Podcast, you will gain an introduction to the Thrive Approach, Thrive-Online and learn about the impact Thrive has had on a primary school in a deprived, rural area of Cornwall.
You can learn more about Thrive at: www.thriveapproach.com