A practical, half day masterclass designed to help you to support children who are suffering grief following a bereavement.
“1 in 29 5-16 year olds has been bereaved of a parent or sibling - that’s a child in every average class.”
Child Bereavement UK
Schools have an important role to play when a child suffers a bereavement, providing appropriate pastoral care throughout the grieving process. Despite this, many teachers and schools’ staff lack training in this area.
Join us for this half-day virtual masterclass to understand the impact of bereavement on children of different ages and how they process grief. Ensure that you are prepared and able to provide the appropriate response immediately following the bereavement, supporting a child in their return to school, and offer ongoing support. You’ll consider the different approaches required for children with SEND, as well as the additional support for children who are bereaved following suicide of a loved one.
You will also come away able to audit and update or create a new bereavement policy that can be used in your school, to support you in this important area.
Key Learning Objectives
This Masterclass will enable you to:
Understand how bereavement and grief manifests in children of different ages
Provide appropriate support immediately upon bereavement to the pupil and their family
Support children to return to school, using effective resources and strategies
Prepare staff, fellow students and friends for the pupil’s return and support them with concerns they may have
Identify times where additional support is needed
Understand the impact of bereavement on pupils with SEND and how your response might need to differ
Support children who have suffered bereavement due to suicide and the additional challenges children can face
Develop a new bereavement policy to be used in your school
Who Should Attend
Pastoral Leaders, Senior Mental Health Leads, School Counsellors, School Nurses, Safeguarding Leads and members of the Senior Leadership Team
Facilitator
Sam is a renowned speaker, trainer and author specialising in mental health and SEN. She has been a SENCo in a large secondary school and is a qualified Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and a Child and Adolescent Counsellor. Sam also set up a company providing mental health CBT programmes for schools. She is in high demand to speak at conferences and events and provides in-house training for schools and companies, nationally and internationally. Lauded for her humour and ‘telling it like it is’ approach to mental health, Sam has had her book Mental Health in Education published by Routledge, and regularly writes for several publications with more books in the pipeline for publication.
