Supporting grieving children in schools
Hi! I’m Emma,
Bereavement is the sharp end of loss.
My professional and personal experience has led me to create The Marfleet Foundation to provide advice and create resources that reassure and empower schools to know what to do when there is a bereavement within their community.
If we look after the child as they are now, we also care for the adults they will become.
What We Do…
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Training
We offer a three part School Inset programme to reassure and empower your staff to know what to do when you have a child bereaved of a significant family member in school.
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Online Resources
Downloadble teaching materials, linked to a catalogue of books, for use in school to encourage healthy dialogue with children around the themes of love, loss, death and grieving.
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Lived Experience
Thoughts, articles, and guides on grief based on my lived experience as an educational consultant, teacher, school governor, and parent to three bereaved children.
WHY WE DO
What we do
1 in 29 five to sixteen year-olds have been bereaved of a parent or sibling - that’s a child in every average class.
A parent of children under 18 dies every 22 minutes in the UK; around 23,600 a year - that’s around 111 children bereaved of a parent every day.
We aim to support these children by providing advice and resources to empower educators to know what to do when they have a child bereaved of a significant family member in school.
We supply training and consultancy to educational staff and governors of nursery, infant, junior and primary schools, as well as the resources you’ll find on this site.
