Attainment
Our Ambition...
- We want children and young people to be supported to reach their learning potential at all stages of their education
- We want parents to recognise the contribution of learning to health, well-being and personal attainment
- We want parents to feel that they have increased access to learning opportunities
- We want to see improved attendance levels and engagement of children and parents within education
- Common approach to assessment across THRiVE schools
- Shared attendance policy to support consistent attendance
- After school support within community
- WE CAN aspiration campaigh
- Parent programmes and access to adult education and lifelong learning
- Easter and Summer programmes to support transitions
- BOOST and Family Learning
- Aspire
Boost and Family Learning
B Bringing together home, school & community,
O One focus group – pupil attainment in literacy and numeracy
O Outcomes tracked from Primary 4 to 7
S Smart & diverse interventions
T Transparent and accountable Leadership.
Barnardo’s Family Connections delivers the BOOST programme in all six THRiVE primary schools. BOOST works with children in Key Stage 2 needing a boost with their literacy and numeracy.
Parents are actively involved to encourage literacy and numeracy learning at home. Parents and children come together for family learning sessions, playing and learning in fun activities after school.
Aspire
Abbey Community College, in partnership with Monkstown Boxing Club deliver the Aspire programme to pupils in Year 12 to support young people to build aspiration, re-engage with learning and help achieve at GCSE. Pupils are based in the Boxing Club for a programme of personal development, literacy, numeracy, STEM and ICT.
News & Updates
THRiVE Collaborative Poem.
Last year, on World Poetry Day, THRiVE Newtownabbey encouraged local schools and community youth groups to create lines of poetry based on the four THRiVE
THRiVE LiVE Newsletter. (Edition #5)
The latest THRiVE LiVE update newsletter, featuring updates of what we have been working on during the last quarter of 2023 (October to December) has
2022-2023 THRiVE Impact Report
The latest THRiVE Impact report for the year 2022-23 is now available to download from the link at the bottom of this article The report