On Thursday 6^th January, the new year was kickstarted with OWS appearing in the BBC News! We got involved with a local campaign run by John Adams, the Director of Perry & Phillips Funeral Directors located in Bridgnorth.

The aim of the campaign is to make more pupils in school aware of bereavement and to hopefully have the subject on all school’s National Curriculum.

Immy Leith, a pupil at Oldbury Wells, has become the face of the campaign. Over the past few years, she has been raising money for cancer charities in memory of her mother, whom she lost to mouth cancer.

Before the Christmas holidays, OWS was asked if we would like to get involved by filming a section where Immy and a group of her school friends discussed what it was like for her at school after her mother’s death and her grief process. She said that it would have been beneficial to have spoken about her feelings with her peers.

John Adams believes that more could be done in schools in terms of bereavement and helping children through the process with grief, which in turn would help them through the process as they grow up.

According to Child Bereavement UK, a parent of someone under the age of 18 dies every 22 minutes in the UK.

This is a really important cause, and as a school that has pupils that have lost a parent/guardian close to them, we stand by this cause and hope to see John’s campaign get the signatures it deserves.

Thank you to Immy, Lucy, Evie, Carly and James for taking part in the video.

You can read more news articles here - 

Shropshire family backs call for bereavement lessons in school

Bridgnorth man launches petition to put bereavement support on national curriculum

Watch the story here - 

News Broadcast (Facebook post)

Link to sign petition - 

Add content on death, dying and bereavement to the national curriculum