Free bereavement resources and guides for schools

Fill out the form below to download our template and guide to create a bereavement policy for your school and use our guide, strategy and charter documents to support grieving students.

Example bereavement policy template

Adapt and amend this template to create a bereavement policy for your school or college.

Guide to our example bereavement policy

This guide will help you understand and adapt our example bereavement policy for your school or college.

Guide to supporting grieving children in education

This guide will help you understand how children experience grief and how to support them in school.

A strategy for schools

These guidelines will help you to develop a strategy to respond to a death in the school community.

Charter for bereaved children

This charter is based on our conversations with thousands of children and their families, who have told us what gave them hope after bereavement.

Thunks on death

Thunks are ‘beguilingly simple-looking questions’ that make your brain go ouch. This particular set, a collaboration between Winston’s Wish and Independent Thinking, is specifically designed to open up thinking and discussion around the topics of death, grief and bereavement.