thrive was born from a place of accommodating the individual and matching the learning experience to each student.
As pioneers in schooling approaches, we pride ourselves as an education team in our focus on maintaining agility. We believe this focus has been a part of what has given us as an education company and our students the perseverance to keep thriving through a globally challenging decade.
1️⃣ Individually curated online and physical curriculum options
thrive uses curriculums with a proven track record of mastery based assessment and enriches these academic curriculums with LifeSchool, our hands on, explorative based learning activities. Being able to curate a multi medium curriculum allows each of our students to access their learning in each individual subject through platforms and formats that are most approachable to their learning style. Students work at their potential and individual pace. Instead of a class of students all being expected to learn and progress at the same rate, our tailoring to each child allows space for deep learning and concept mastery.
2️⃣ Students have the freedom and responsibility to take brain breaks
Learning is always happening, but we recognise that it is most effective when a child’s mind is free from overstimulation and overwhelm. Teachers guide students in the life skill of knowing when to take a moment away from your work to breathe deep and reset your mind to reengage proactively with their work.
3️⃣ Diverse elective options
As a part of our international curriculum options our students have access to a broad range of global, current and interesting elective options, giving our students access to opportunities to explore diverse academic interests and industry avenues.
4️⃣ Later start to the school day to encourage good sleep hygiene
We have observed that for most children and young adults, later mornings and early afternoons are a more effective window for engaged learning. This allows our students the opportunity to get enough sleep and ease into their day to build up momentum towards engaged thinking and learning.
5️⃣ No homework
As an intentional response to the struggle in most generations to reach a healthy work-life balance, we actively guide our students in tools to make efficient use of their class time. Due to the agile nature of our curriculum routes, our students are able to reach a high academic standard and still find time for sport, hobbies, socialising and play.
6️⃣ Regular check ins with students to assess general wellbeing
One key benefit of micro class groups is that teachers are able to be intentional about developing trusting mentorship roles for with their students, spending regular individual time supporting them in their wellbeing along with the individualised academic support. This allows teachers more insight into how to best adjust goals, learning mediums and teaching approaches for each student.
7️⃣ Unique classroom set ups and learning environments
Students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning space and guided in understanding the control they have to adjust their learning space to best support their effective learning. thrive students can be found sitting outside, on gym balls, with noise cancelling headphones, on balance disks or soft cushions, in communal dynamic work spaces or quiet serene spaces. Teachers guide students in becoming self aware of what strategies promote effective learning vs those that distract and overwhelm them.
8️⃣ Mixed aged classrooms and desynced subject levels
At thrive we have done away with Grade levels and instead assess where each student is appropriately challenged in each subject and project their route from there towards their school exit route. This allows us the agility to support a student at the appropriate pace for them in each individual subject. Where a student is able to move confidently through the work we speed up their momentum and where they need time to process, we slow down their daily goals to allow for deeper learning and neural pathway development.
9️⃣ Organic Learning
Our teachers are always on the lookout for organic learning opportunities, whether that be a frog hopping into the classroom or finding something interesting to look at through the microscope. This approach encourages students to become aware of the natural learning opportunities all around them — we see our students grow in confidence to take advantage of the lessons life spontaneously throws their way.
🔟 The teacher as a facilitator rather than a lecturer
It is in our core approach at thrive to recognise our teaching roles as facilitators, guiding access to learning, and not lecturers sharing information. We are the trestles against which our students grow, but they are given the space and opportunities to grow their own roots in finding and differentiating wholesome and constructive information. This allows us to be completely agile and dynamic in the access our students have to “teachers”. At thrive our students’ teachers come in the form of local industry professionals sharing their passion and knowledge, excursions that help students appreciate that learning takes place beyond the classroom, accessing vetted research channels, and natural challenges they face in life as they grow.
In a world where the trope, “nothing is permanent except change” is perpetually proven, we know that to offer our students concrete and constructive futures we need to offer them an agile approach to education, and equip them with their own agility to navigate their futures with confidence.