Carlton Vale Infants School

 

Thrive 

At Carlton Vale Infants we are proud to be a school that embraces the Thrive Approach.

Thrive has been developed over 25 years with a development model supporting children's social and emotional needs, providing responses and activities to engage children with life and learning.

We know that children learn best in schools when they are happy and settled and the Thrive Approach supports all children with their social and emotional well-being. Thrive allows us to develop better relationships, healthy stress-regulation systems and increase a child's ability to access learning. 

Thrive recognises the importance of positive relationships, empathy and safety. We use the Thrive Approach to help us check children's readiness to learn, to identify any gaps and then plan to meet them. Through doing so, we will be able to make sure that all of our children have what they need to make the best progress in their learning. Through play, creativity and relational experiences, we can help reduce the impacts of stress on the brain and body and in turn support children to become more self-assured, capable and resilient individuals. 

At school we respond to children's behaviour in a specific, targeted way, providing appropriate strategies and activities, in order to allow them to engage positively during their time in school. 

We are proud to say that we have 2 Licenced Thrive Practitioners here at Carlton Vale, Karen and Lorretta. They will help develop Thrive across the school. 

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Our Staff use PACE: Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy.

PACE is a trauma-informed and therapeutic approach to supporting children and young people.The approach focuses on building trusting relationships, emotional connections, containment and a sense of security.

 

 All our Staff use Vital Relational Functions ‘VRFs’ which are tools used in Thrive to address and support a child’s emotional state.

  • Attune: This is where we show we are alert to how the child is feeling. We connect with the child and match how the child is feeling through our pitch, pace, volume and body language.
  • Validate: This is when we let the child know that it is okay to have their feelings. (“I'm wondering if you might be feeling ____. If that had happened to me, I would be feeling ___ too.)
  • Containment: This is where we catch and show that we understand the pitch, intensity or quality of their feelings. We break things down into manageable chunks. (First, we will...)
  • Regulate: This is where we must demonstrate emotional regulation by soothing and calming the child. The children must experience being calmed before they can begin to calm themselves.

 

Thrive Vital Relational Functions (VRF’s)