Loss & Grief links to LOTE

Grief in a zoo community: funerals and grief rituals

Exploring grief - page 42

Newspaper article (handout) - page 44

Funerals - page 43
Newspaper article(handout) - page 45

Research - page 43

Teacher Talk

Symbols, ceremonies and commemoration can provide a healing role for students and may be important in their gaining perspective about significant events.

Languages

Understanding Culture

3.6 Reflects personally on cultural practices and compares how these are expressed across cultures.

4.6 Analyses cultural references in texts and challenges assumptions about cultural identity, values and practices.

1. Understanding self, group and others

Develops self-awareness and understanding with a strong sense of self-worth in social and working.

Understands key ways in which groups and cultures contribute to forming identity.

Actively engages with the interplay between the 'self' and collective identities.

Describes aspects of personal and group identity, eg cultural, behavioural, social, emotional and intellectual.
Respects different personal and collective identities.

Reflects and communicates with others to influence and generate new personal, working and group identities.