Thrive

The Thrive Approach has been developed over many years helping children to flourish. It supports children's emotional and social development and helps them feel happy and secure, able to enjoy friendships, relate well to others and be ready and able to learn. Thrive is a specific way of working with all children that helps to develop their social and emotional well-being, enabling them to engage with life and learning. It supports them in becoming more self-assured, capable and adaptable. It can also address any troubling behaviours providing a firm foundation for academic attainment.

Miss Harman (Child and Family Support Worker) is our licensed Thrive Practitioner at ACE. 

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🌈 Family Game Night

Download the resources below to have fun at home with your household!

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From Thursday 7th January, we will be providing a weekly Thrive activity for your children to complete. 

Every Thursday, we will be posting a weekly activity to help support you and your children's emotional wellbeing during this time. We would love to see your photos and hear updates of how you are getting on!

We will also be providing a helpline on Thursdays 1pm - 3pm on 01264 352322 in which you can speak to Miss Harman (Child and Family Support Worker) regarding any advice and support you many need which may include routine, behaviour support, housing, benefits, finances etc.  Alternatively, you can email Miss Harman to book a phone appointment at n.harman@andover-pri.hants.sch.uk. 

Take care and stay safe ❤️

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This week – Happiness Box!

We are continuing with keeping a positive outlook during these tough times by making a happiness box.

The idea of the happiness box is to create something that your child can use if they are feeling sad, anxious, nervous or worried or to use as a reminder of all the positive things in our lives that help make us happy.

With the happiness box, once decorated (optional), the child will be able to write all of the things that make them happy on a piece of paper. The child could write, draw or make these things. I would recommend a minimum of 6 (no maximum!) for the box to have a full effect. There really is no limit to how many happiness slips the child can add to the box and they can add them as and when they need to. As well as happiness slips, you could also use photos, toys – anything that would make you smile 

If your child is feeling low, sad, anxious, nervous, worried or need a little pick me up, the child can empty the box and look at all of the things that make them happy for a little boost, especially during these tough times.

Again, this activity has no age limit! This could be something that you as parents may want to think about. You can jot these down in a notebook or your phone, and if you need a positive pick me up, they are there to put a smile on your face.

Here are some examples of one of the Year 5’s happiness slips:

You will need:

• An empty cardboard box/shoebox
• Paper
• Pens/pencils
• Scissors

Optional:

• Wrapping paper
• Tape
• Glue
• Art and craft materials

You can also adapt the activity to make a worry box, which alternatively the child could write their worries in to help relieve stress and anxiety.

Please send any feedback, quotes and photos to n.harman@andover-pri.hants.sch.uk.

It would be lovely to hear from you!

Take care and stay safe ❤️

Miss Harman 🌈

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This week’s Thrive activity is to make a picture of everything you’re grateful for!

Following our Gratitude Scavenger Hunt last week, this week’s activity is to make a picture of everything you’re grateful for.

This is another great conversation starter and a lovely opportunity for you to complete an activity alongside your child.

Please send any feedback, quotes and photos to n.harman@andover-pri.hants.sch.uk.

It would be lovely to hear from you!

Take care and stay safe ❤️

Miss Harman 🌈

P.S: for next week’s activity, you will need an empty cardboard box/shoebox, paper/wrapping paper, scissors, tape, glue, general arts and crafts resources if available to you!

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This week’s Thrive activity is a Gratitude Scavenger Hunt!

Gratitude is a positive emotion where we focus on what is good in our lives and being thankful for what we have.

It gives us a chance to recognise and reflect on how we can appreciate the things around us that we are thankful for.

It is really important that even though during these tough times, we need to try and stay as positive as we can be. Not just to help look after ourselves, but for our children too.

Please click on the link below for the Word document. This activity can be for all ages, including parents!

Ideally, you would be able to have access to an outside space to explore for the scavenger hunt. If for whatever reason this is not the case, you can get your child to think about the statement rather than finding an object. For example “find something outside that makes a beautiful sound” can be changed to “think of something outside that makes a beautiful sound”.

You do not have to print the document to enjoy the activity, you can read the statements from your device or it could be used as a good conversation starter for you as a parent to use with your child.

Please send any feedback, quotes and photos to n.harman@andover-pri.hants.sch.uk.

It would be lovely to hear from you!

Take care and stay safe ❤️

Miss Harman 🌈

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Hello everybody!

This past term we have been very busy using Thrive in our one to one sessions as well as in group sessions. 

Our group of Year 5 boys have had a wonderful term engaging in different activities and usually getting very messy in the process! 

We have enjoyed experiencing gloop, making our own superheroes, decorating biscuits and also getting in the festive mood decorating gingerbread men. 

We have had lots of fun and I am already looking forward to the next term with our lovely children!

I hope you all have a wonderful, magical Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎉

Miss Harman 🌈

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Hello,

During our Thrive sessions in the past two weeks, we have been enjoying more sensory exploration with sand, talking about what we like about each other, what makes us special as an individual and "getting to know" our potatoes and balloons that we made of ourselves! 

During one session with two Year 3 children, we linked feelings and sensations to different colours.  One child linked the colour purple to how she feels when she hugs her sister and helps her. 

During another session with Year 3 children, one child spoke about how he is hopeful and how he likes to make sure that his best friend "has the loveliest day in the world". He also spoke about how he is kind to everyone and how he wants his friends to have the loveliest time.  He further discussed how he is helpful and thoughtful as he listens to others and wants to be kind to everyone ❤️🌈

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This week for our Thrive activities, we have been exploring sand, oats, play dough as well as talking about our emotions and discussing how special we are as individuals. 

I've also attached some photos of The Nest as we have finally been able to complete our activities in there this week 🎉 all of the children have responded positively to The Nest, one child even expressed how he was "bursting with joy and happiness flying everywhere" as well as another child claiming how he "loves it" and has had "amazing fun!"

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