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NEW COURSES FOR 2024/2025

NEW, NEW, NEW

In 2024 BackPocketTeacher launched 6 new courses. The following new courses build on the very popular 'A Special Kind of Grief' training day

Grief & Children with SLD & PMLD
Using Good Grief Toys ®
Policies & Procedures
Developing the Curriculum
The Losses of Life
Bereavement & Grief Plans

For all of the details about these new courses, plus the original BackPocketTeacher training day - A Special Kind of Grief, click on the button below.

2024/25 COURSES

Teach Us Too - Transformational Tales, Research Project

Transformational Tales: Literacy For Life

This project is collecting stories about the impact of literacy teaching on young people with complex needs.

We aim to gather the ‘voices’ and stories of children and young people who are non-speaking and considered to have severe or profound learning disabilities or autism. This project intends to discover the meaning and impact of communication and literacy on the lives of young people who are non-speaking.

Find out more

Please get involved

There is little formal research that collects the views and opinions of young people who are non-speaking. We believe that their voices should be amplified and heard by society.

Please help us to gather ‘Transformational Tales’ and highlight the need for ‘Literacy for Life’.

Let's Talk About Grief

No one likes to think about death, let alone talk about it and who feels comfortable talking to children about death?!

Being blessed with life means that we also have to cope with others dying and manage the associated emotions of grief.

We already teach children about so many feelings - what happiness, sadness and anger are, how they make us feel and how to manage these emotions. Now it is time to ensure we do the same for grief.

If you work with children you need to be prepared to talk to them about life and death and support young people with their grief - grief related to death and any other form of loss.

BackPocketTeacher provides you with the confidence and skills to do this.

With BackPocketTeacher in your back pocket our bereaved and grieving children are in great hands.

About Sarah Helton

Sarah Helton of BackPocketTeacher

Sarah has worked in the Special Educational Needs/Disabilities (SEND) field for more than 25 years and has an outstanding track record in a diverse range of roles (Deputy Head, Assistant Head, Teacher, Local Authority Education Officer and Educational Publisher).

She now works as BackPocketTeacher - a consultant, author and trainer in the field of child bereavement, specialising in the (sadly often overlooked) needs of bereaved children with SEND/LD.

In March 2024, Sarah successfully completed a PhD, having researched how children with severe, profound or profound and multiple learning disabilities communicate grief.

Follow Sarah's work via this website, the BackPocketTeacher Blog, and on social media, Instagram @backpocketteach, Twitter @backpocketteach and Facebook @BackPocketTeacher.

Sarah also works as a training facilitator for the national child bereavement charity Winston's Wish.

For further information and to see full details of Sarah's career to date please click here.