Catherine Moore, the deputy principal and pastoral lead at Sullivan Upper School, said that there will be regular instances of bereavement in the school community
More than 300 teachers across Northern Ireland will begin bereavement training to enable them to better support students who have lost a loved one.
"And we're constantly reviewing at the school our practice and identify training needs, but really because so many of our children were affected by that, I felt that it was something really the whole staff would benefit from," she said. Joan McEwan, associate director of policy and public affairs at Marie Curie, said the training was part of a wider programme aiming to integrate grief and bereavement awareness into the curriculum.
"It's likely that most children will be bereaved of someone close to them by the time they leave school. So, all schools will be affected by a bereavement at some point. Ms McEwan said: "They can feel a wide variety of feelings and also physically act out in different ways, they can feel anger, confusion, have disturbed sleep, be withdrawn.Ms McEwan said the course was practical and designed to replicate scenarios teachers may encounter when helping a child experiencing bereavement.
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