Thomas Arnold Primary School in Dagenham had embedded Thrive's whole-school approach to improving pupils' social and emotional development well before the Covid pandemic struck. Rolling out the training provider's approach among its staff proved to be a good decision by the school as the country entered a national lockdown.
“We were definitely in a much better position during Covid because we had put Thrive in place,” says Holly Pottle, the school's deputy head teacher.
“It had already made a massive positive impact on the children's behaviour and their ability to cope with things like change and conflict.
“Although Covid did have a knock-on impact academically, it did not affect our children's social and emotional development as much as that of other schools,” she explains.
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