See also: PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education)

Change and loss in a child's or young person's life either through death, divorce, separation or family strife is never an easy issue to discuss. Some aspects can be covered through the PSHE curriculum and it is worth looking at resources within the main toolkits there. Useful too are the book suggestions within the Reading Well Collection for Children (www.reading-well.org.uk/children) dealing with bereavement.

Learning Resources and activities

Change and loss

www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk

Select What We Do/Resources for Parents, then select Resilience-building Activities for a set of downloadable resources dealing with feelings; communication; friendship; dealing with anger; and change and loss. Select Change and Loss for resources on grieving to use with children from 5–9 years.

Child Bereavement UK

www.childbereavementuk.org

Packed with information and resources to deal with coping with grief and loss, including COVID-19 resources for young people. The Path of Grief resource is worth a particular mention. Select the Support & Information menu.

Coping with the death of a loved one

www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk/what-we-do/childrens-wellbeing-activities-forteaching- staff-and-families.html

These are resources to help children find healthy ways to deal with their feelings and reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are excellent downloadable resources for both teachers and families to use covering issues such as coping with the death of a loved one. Some of the activities are available in other languages, including Bulgarian, Danish, Polish, Portuguese, French and Spanish.

Hope Again

www.hopeagain.org.uk

For young people coping with living after loss.

Recovery curriculum: loss and life for our children and schools post pandemic

www.evidenceforlearning.net/recoverycurriculum#mentalhealth

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Looks at the considerations for a recovery curriculum when children and young people return to school post-COVID-19. In addition, provides links to other resources and a list of book recommendations.

Recovering from change and challenges

www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/recovering-from-change-andchallenges

This has session plans to explore risk and changes in our lives.

Royal British Legion: Remembrance

www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/teaching-remembrance

These resources from the Royal British Legion have been created in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. They include lesson plans that are suitable for school or home learning. There are fantastic materials to download, including Then and Now Assemblies that have been designed for either whole school assemblies, class presentations or to use for learning at home.