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Focus Group – Death Education in Schools

12/04/2023

We are running a focus group to help us to understand some of the difficulties which might be faced by teachers running classes on death and dying. The focus group will ask simple questions relating to this, and we will invite your input via small discussion groups, each chaired by a CEDAR volunteer. Better knowledge of the problems of discussing death will help us to develop and provide resources to make lessons easier and more approachable for staff and pupils…

Thank You to MidCounties Co-operative Community Fund

13/10/2020

We are so grateful for the continued support of our MidCounties Cooperative Community Fund to help us deliver death education programmes across the County to our young people and adults on how to talk about death, dying and loss in healthy and appropriate ways. We recently received £1000, which will allow us to purchase a wonderful new teaching and learning software in order to put some of our awarding-winning death education classes online. This will help us reach more young…

Working Together

06/12/2016

CEDAR EDUCATION now has a Youth Advisory Team that works with us to help us make sure our death education courses for young people are interactive and engaging enough for the curious mind. They not only tell us if a lesson is b-o-r-i-n-g, but they offer unique and effective suggestions on how to make each lesson more enticing for their age group. Keep watching these pages to see how much they have had to offer our Life Lessons team and…

New Life Lessons!

21/07/2016

CEDAR is launching our new Life Lessons programme for young people, which will run in Oswestry this year. The programme, which is sponsored by the office of John Campion Police & Crime Commissioner of West Mercia is also supported by the Shropshire NHS CCG Young Health Champions’ group and promises to be both rewarding and constructive. This year the new cohort of students will join graduates from the 2014/2015 group of ‘Dragon Riders’ to help create learning packs for schools to…

The Graveyard Book Review

01/12/2015

The novel is particularly poignant in its portrayal of the often isolating feeling of loss, alongside the crucial role that communities, friends and family can play in overcoming this.

Dr Wester meets Professor Tony Walter

12/06/2015

Dr Wester meets Professor Tony Walter

Katy’s Blog #10: Further Life Lessons for the Youth Health Champions

28/04/2015

The CEDAR CIC held another of its now popular ‘Life Lessons’ workshop, this time at the Grange Youth Centre, Shrewsbury. The participants were from the Young Health Champions NHS programme. There were 6 young participants from the programme and a volunteer who attended a previous session and wanted to get more involved in helping out. This Life Lessons workshop had the youngest participants to date, ranging from age 10 up to 24. The Life Lessons this time round involved…

CEDAR CIC Luncheon with the NHS, The Grange School, And Young Health Champions team

04/03/2015

Recently CEDAR CIC hosted a luncheon and invited along previous attendees of one of the Life lessons workshops. These were students from The Grange high school in Shrewsbury, together with representatives from The Youth Health Champion programme that have been working with and supporting CEDAR Life lessons. Also CEDAR had the honour of a special guest Mr Giles Wilmore who is Director for Patient & Public Voice & Information, NHS England. The luncheon was a chance for Mr…

YHC launches new space

04/11/2014

CEDAR helps at YHC Launch

Katy’s Blog #4–Day of the Dead:

23/10/2014

Cedar held the second day of ‘Life Lessons’ and all the Youth Health Champions turned up, including one more! This was not a surprise as it had been a captivating lesson that was held the day before, and so the participants seemed eager to learn more. On this day, we were introduced to the ‘Day of the Dead’, which sounds as if it is going to be about something morbid and yet on the contrary was full of colour, brightness,…