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Curriculum

Thrive

Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

About the subject

Thrive is a planned and sequenced part of Kickstart’s curriculum that supports emotional development, positive relationships and readiness to learn. It helps students understand their needs, develop regulation strategies and apply these skills across school and everyday life.

Qualifications and assessment

Thrive is a planned curriculum and targeted intervention. It is not a standalone qualification or a replacement for specialist clinical support.

About the Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

Intent

  • Develop emotional awareness and appropriate ways to communicate need.
  • Recognise triggers and use strategies to manage feelings and behaviour.
  • Build healthy relationships, trust and social understanding.
  • Develop resilience, self-esteem and problem-solving.
  • Improve readiness to learn and participation in school life.

Implementation

  • Students take part in structured Thrive sessions delivered individually or in small groups according to assessed need.
  • Activities include discussion, practical tasks, reflection, modelling and rehearsal of strategies.
  • Staff connect Thrive learning to classroom expectations, relationships and real-life situations.
  • Progress is reviewed through observation, student voice and application across the academy.

Impact

  • Students demonstrate improved emotional vocabulary, regulation and communication.
  • Students are increasingly able to recognise triggers and use agreed strategies.
  • Relationships, engagement and readiness to learn improve over time.
  • Impact is evaluated sensitively and is not presented as a clinical diagnosis or treatment.

Enrichment

Opportunities include practical wellbeing activities, teamwork, reflection, community experiences and links to Personal Development and preparation for adulthood.

Careers

Careers learning in this subject contributes to Kickstart’s wider careers programme and the Gatsby Benchmarks. Through our work with Future Focus, students receive individual support to explore suitable pathways, make applications and prepare for a positive post-16 transition. Emotional regulation, communication, resilience and relationship skills support every post-16 pathway and help students participate successfully in education, training and employment.

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