Supporting mental health and behaviour in multi-academy trusts

Thrive benefits MATs by providing a standardised approach to wellbeing that can be implemented across all schools, ensuring consistent mental health support.

By using the Thrive-Online platform, MATs can assess and track the emotional and social development of pupils across multiple settings, providing data-driven insights to inform resource allocation and interventions. This standardised approach helps improve pupil behaviour, attendance, and attainment, reducing the need for costly external interventions. Additionally, Thrive builds in-house capacity by upskilling staff, creating a mentally healthy culture that benefits both pupils and staff, enhancing wellbeing and retention across the trust.

Thrive enables MATs to create emotionally safe and supportive environments across their schools, which enhances both pupil wellbeing and academic performance.

When children and young people experience stress or trauma, their brain enters survival mode, limiting their ability to learn, concentrate, or solve problems. The Thrive Approach provides educators with the knowledge and strategies to recognise and respond to these triggers, creating classrooms where pupils feel secure and ready to engage with learning. By helping educators form strong, trust-based relationships with students, Thrive reduces the frequency of stress responses, allowing more time for productive learning and improving overall attainment.

Thrive empowers educators to nurture a sense of belonging and emotional safety within their classrooms. By equipping them with essential skills and knowledge about mental health and wellbeing, educators can identify and address the root causes of absenteeism, such as anxiety, social disconnection, or trauma.

When pupils feel valued and connected, they are more likely to attend school regularly. The Thrive Approach emphasises building supportive relationships, creating safe learning environments, and fostering resilience, all of which contribute to improved attendance across the entire trust.

In addition, our leadership training equips school leaders to develop an overarching strategy that prioritises mental health and wellbeing across all settings. This ensures that a unified approach to fostering a supportive environment is embedded at every level of the MAT. By promoting a culture of understanding and compassion, we help leaders create a community where every child feels they belong, further enhancing their engagement and commitment to learning.

Thrive-Online is an innovative platform that enables schools within a MAT to assess and track the emotional wellbeing of their pupils.

This assessment can be done at scale, from individual pupils to entire trusts, allowing MAT leaders to see the bigger picture. The platform generates bespoke action plans and suggested strategies that help fill developmental gaps. By using this data-driven approach, MATs can track trends, identify priority areas, and implement timely interventions to improve wellbeing outcomes.

Thrive training helps educators understand their own emotional triggers and resilience strategies, which are crucial for managing the stresses of the teaching environment.

By prioritising staff wellbeing, Thrive creates a mentally healthy workplace where staff feel supported. This can reduce burnout and turnover, which in turn improves retention rates. Schools that use Thrive also report improved staff morale and a stronger sense of community among their teams.

Yes, we work closely with multi-academy trusts to develop bespoke packages that meet specific goals and budgets.

Whether you want to implement Thrive across all of your schools or focus on high-priority settings, we’ll help you create a solution that works for your community.