Loss & Grief links to Religious Education

Understanding life changes result in loss and grief

Change - pages 22-23

Grief reactions - page 24

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

3 Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.

5 Students describe and reason about patterns, structures and relationships in order to understand, interpret, justify and make predictions.

6 Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

Establish and enforce group rules on confidentiality, respecting others' opinions and feelings, and having a right to pass (i.e. on talking about sensitive issues).

Reactions to loss and change

Grief reactions - pages 25-26

'Normal' grief reactions (handout) - page 28

Extension activity - page 27

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

3 Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.

5 Students describe and reason about patterns, structures and relationships in order to understand, interpret, justify and make predictions.

6 Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

Use the first three sessions from Enhancing Resilience 1 to help establish rules and a sense of belonging and trust.

Reaching out, reaching in

How to help pages - 29-30

Helping yourself, helping a friend (handout) - pages 31-32

Helping a friend - page 30

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

6 Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

13 Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.

Use the first three sessions from Enhancing Resilience 1 to help establish rules and a sense of belonging and trust.

Helping friends

Types of support - pages 33-34

Giving advice - page 34

Dear Dr Wright letters (handout) - page 36

Seeking help - page 35

Newspaper article (handout) - page 37

What to say - page 35

Overarching Learning Outcomes

1 Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others.

3 Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.

6 Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.

11 Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being.

12 Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

13 Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.

Listening is often the best thing to do for someone who is experiencing loss and grief.

Grief is normal

Changes and stress - page 50

'Normal' grief reactreions (handout) - page 52

There are no specific outcomes related to this KLA. However, the activities and sessions opposite would be useful in the classroom.

If students share their experiences of loss and grief, accept and value their version and understand that loss and grief is experienced in a myriad of ways that may be different from your own.