The Thrive Approach for Children's Emotional Development
Explore the Thrive Approach, a trauma-informed method focused on meeting children's social and emotional needs. Informed by neuroscience and child development theories, it emphasizes creating experiences and relationships tailored to each child's specific needs. Learn about the roles of the "monkey" (prefrontal cortex) and "meerkat" (amygdala) in children's cognitive and emotional development, and how the Thrive Approach is implemented in schools like Harbury. Discover the journey of Thrive practitioners in assessing and supporting children's needs through online profiling and tailored sessions.
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(359) Thrive animation - YouTube What is Thrive Approach The Thrive Approach is a dynamic, developmental, trauma-informed approach to meeting the emotional and social developmental needs of all children and young people. It is informed by recent developments in neuroscientific research and is underpinned by a theoretical base in child development theory, attachment theory and research into creativity, play and the arts. Fundamental to the Approach is the finding from neuroscientific research that children's brains develop in response to their experiences in relationships. This means that if we want to support optimal development in children, we need to understand their specific social and emotional needs at each age and then provide them with the right set of experiences and relationships to meet those needs. We all have a monkey (prefrontal cortex) and a meerkat (amygdala.) The role of the monkey is to do all of our big thinking and decisions. Our monkey isn t fully developed until we are about 25, so until then we have a baby monkey who needs a bit more support and guidance. Our meerkat's job is to make sure we are safe at all times. If our meerkat suspects any threat it will be alert letting our brain and body know. It s so loud that nothing else can be heard, especially the monkey. With it goes any rational thought. meerkats don t always get it right. But that s not their job, their job is to be on high alert. If they don t get it right it takes our body time to recognise this and regulate.
Thrive Approach at Harbury Thrive is being embedded across the Harbury school. Arden Forest C of E Multi Academy Trust practices Thrive across all their schools. All staff are trained in Thrive and use this approach alongside our restorative practice. Please see behaviour policy for future information. Our Thrive Practitioners are :- 1. Naomi Neale Thrive Lead & SENDCo, Senior teacher, Deputy DSL & English (reading) Subject Lead 2. Sarah Edwards Thrive Practitioner and Learning Mentor 3. Cally Romero Thrive Practitioner and Teaching Assistant
Our Thrive Approach Journey Thrive begins with teachers and practitioners completing an online class profile ( profiled at the class right time development strand) this is reviewed every term; The online profiling enables staff to profile their class or group so that they can identify their age-related social and emotional needs what in Thrive we call right-time needs. Thrive online follows strict GPDR rules and only able to be viewed by staff. Once a class profile is completed at a Right time development data is produced to help look at groups, induvial profiles, these are tailored to specific profile to each child. Strategies and Thrive sessions are delivered but the class teacher and our Thrive practitioners.
