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Connected - The Thrive® Podcast

by Liz Parks

Connected - The Thrive® Podcast is the show for anyone working alongside children and young people, exploring the importance of creating supportive and positive relationships to help children maintain healthy social and emotional development and build their resilience.

Episodes

How we created a school to meet the needs of deaf students – and the role Thrive plays in this

0s · Published 26 Feb 14:35

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 uses Thrive to meet these needs
An insight into how the Academy has created a space that removes barriers to learning for deaf pupils
Tips for adaptations that mainstream schools should make for deaf or hearing impaired pupils

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Taking a diocese-wide approach to creating an anti-bullying culture

9m · Published 19 Oct 13:52

The latest episode of Thrive’sConnected podcastis 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 the protected characteristics (of the Equality Act) and to bullying in a broader sense
Why relationships are crucial when it comes to creating an anti-bullying culture and why staff need to model positive relationships
How Thrive has changed Jo’s practice as an education professional
Why wellbeing needs to be a curriculum-wide approach, rather than staying confined to PHSE lessons

Creating an anti-bullying culture across a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT)

22m · Published 16 Oct 15:37

The latest episode of Thrive’sConnected podcastis 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 take a preventative approach to bullying rather than simply tackling incidents as they arise
How this culture can be created and embedded across a MAT so that it is truly effective
The role of curriculum design and how this can bring the idea of difference into everyday conversations for children and young people
How Thrive-Online helps the Exceed Learning Partnership to understand the individual needs of all pupils

We’re a Thrive School of Excellence for mental wellbeing – here's what we do for pupils, staff and parents

13m · Published 03 Oct 09:04

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.

How to build trusting and open relationships with parents and carers

12m · Published 21 Aug 12:55

The latest episode of Thrive’s Connected podcast 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 they are connected and it helps them to have a sense of the network of support and care that is around them,” said Rose.

Listen to discover:

· How good relationships between home and school can help create a preventative approach to mental health problems, with parents and carers more likely to be pro-active about communicating issues at home and potential problems.

· What a trusting and open relationship with families and carers looks like in practice.

· Why parents may struggle to engage with school because of their own past experiences – and how to respond if this is the case.

· How Family Thrive sessions can foster these good relationships.

How good relationships can be developed and maintained in the smallest details such as the language used on a school’s website

Behaviour: How to engage with hard-to-reach children

29m · Published 20 Apr 08:22

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:

Real-life examples of behaviour issues that Adele has encountered – and the strategies she used to get a different outcome
The importance of curiosity when it comes to unpicking classroom behaviour
Why neuroscience is key when it comes to understanding behaviour
The importance of examining our own behaviours and attitudes when it comes to de-escalation
The impact of the pandemic on behaviour

LGBTQIA+ and mental health: what educators need to know

15m · Published 06 Apr 09:55

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. He will also focus on language – what to say and what to avoid – so that educators can feel confident about having sensitive and supportive conversations with all children and young people.

Listen to discover:

Why the + is the most important part of LGBTQIA+

How you can avoid tokenism in schools and create a genuine culture of inclusion and diversity
Why educators shouldn’t shy away from conversations about gender, sexuality and identity and how allowing children and young people to be open will benefit their mental health
The one question classroom staff should ask if a child initiates a conversation around gender and identity
Why LGBTQIA+ is not a safeguarding issue

Toileting and continence in schools: why it’s about mental as well as physical health

20m · Published 23 Feb 11:16

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 stomas or catheters.

Listen in to discover:  

How emotional wellbeing can affect toileting behaviours – and why it’s important to take a holistic and nurturing approach
How she uses Thrive to support pupils who are having problems
How Covid has impacted on toileting issues – from online GP appointments through to disruptions to baby and toddler groups
How classroom staff can support pupils who may be embarrassed about problems with toileting and continence
Cathryn’s four top tips to help pupils of all age groups to have good bladder and bowel health

How schools can get children involved in making their loos a better environment so that they feel calm and relaxed when they go

Neuroscience: what classroom staff need to know

19m · Published 20 Feb 11:19

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 and oxytocin in connection
Why connection between humans is so important for good mental health
Why disconnection can lead to an increase in cortisol, the stress hormone
An explanation of the link between social connection and the brain’s ability to form new neuronal pathways and to learn
Practical suggestions for language and activities that help to build connections

Cortisol in the classroom: Behaviours to look out for (and how schools can help)

0s · Published 12 Jan 17:16

“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.

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Connected - The Thrive® Podcast has 34 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 12:57:40. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 22nd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 21st, 2024 08:10.