• how drugs affect our health• facts, laws and school rules about drugs that not all young people use drugs, alcohol or tobacco• how to find information and advice about drug misuse• how to manage risk and make safer choices• how to recognise and to resist unwanted pressure from others• to empathise with people different from ourselves• to consider different social and moral dilemmas• to feel positive about ourselves

What are the priorities in our school’s drug education curriculum?Do a ‘diamond nine’ on these statements…

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that not all young people use drugs, alcohol or tobacco

how drugs affect our health

facts, laws and school rules about drugs

how to find information and advice about drug misuse

how to manage risk and make safer choices

how to recognise and to resist unwanted pressure from others

to empathise with people different from ourselves

to consider different social and moral dilemmas

to feel positive about ourselves

Objectives: Learners should be able to• assess and manage the element of risk in

personal choices and situations • assess the element of risk attached to making

choices about healthy lifestyles, personal safety & personal finances

• know facts and laws about drug, alcohol and tobacco use and misuse, and the personal and social consequences of misuse for themselves and others

• state the basic facts & laws about alcohol, tobacco, legal & illegal drugs

Objective ?Learners should be able to…?

All must…

Most should…

Some could…

My progress? (WWW)

My target(s)?(EBI)

assess and manage the element of risk in personal choices and situations

assess the element of risk attached to making choices about healthy lifestyles, personal safety & personal finances

know facts and laws about drug, alcohol and tobacco use and misuse, and the personal and social consequences of misuse for themselves and others

state the basic facts & laws about alcohol, tobacco, legal & illegal drugs

Host an event in-store

Hello Anthony This year we’re giving you the exciting opportunity to link up with our Furniture & Electrical shops and host a No Smoking Day event for your local community in-store. You will be given floor space to host a display stand or information station on any date between 27 February to 15 March. Check out our full list of stores and their locations on our website. If you would like to discuss hosting an event in one of our 85 participating Furniture & Electrical stores please contact us and we’ll help you coordinate your event. As this is a pilot scheme for 2013 we are unable to provide space in all of our shops, however if you have made a DIY poster your local BHF store will be happy to display it in their window.

Cecilia's Corner - top tips for engaging smokers For many smokers the desire to stop may never become reality unless one day someone steps up and engages them with an offer of practical support and help, there and then. Download our top five tips on how best to engage smokers in public places.

This week we’ve launched a new competition where 6-12 year-old pupils can help their school win a £210 Amazon gift voucher by designing a No Smoking Day poster.

We're encouraging children to consider the financial impact of smoking by drawing what they would do if they were given £49 - the amount an average smoker spends on cigarettes per week. We hope the 'Swap Fags for Swag' theme will inspire pupils to get creative, from a trip to the cinema, swimming lessons, or even buying their pet's food!

TV ‘dragon’ Duncan Bannatyne will judge all the entries and pick the lucky winning school. Help us spread the word to your local schools about the competition.

What?

• Tobacco comes from the leaves of the tobacco plant. It contains a drug called nicotine which is highly addictive. It's nicotine that gives smokers their 'hit'.

• Slang: Fags, rollies, smokes, ciggies

• What is in a cigarette? Discuss in pairs

•Does this surprise you? •Did you realise that all of these things were in a cigarette?

Dear Mr Mitchell,

I am emailing you as we've just launched out new Cut Films project in Buckinghamshire and we'd love to get Amersham School involved. The Buckinghamshire Cut Films competition 2012/13 is a short film competition, which asks young people (under 25s) in Buckinghamshire to research smoking and make an advert or short film (must be under 2 minutes) for their friends about why they shouldn’t smoke. They then share it online through the Cut Films website and develop a campaign to get their friends, family and community to vote for it to win the Bucks competition. The deadline is 19 April 2013 and the competition is completely free to enter. The competition links to the national curricula (Media/Drama/English/PSHE/ICT) and participants learn the following skills:- Project management- Team work- Communication – oral and written- Filmmaking- Online campaigningFor all the info on the Buckinghamshire regional competition - http://cutfilms.org/Buckinghamshire For free resources including posters, filmmaking guide and activity plans - http://cutfilms.org/Buckinghamshire/resources

Prizes for our Bucks competition have not been confirmed yet but in past competitions we've had iPods, shopping vouchers, festival tickets and work experience. Plus all adult facilitators for this project will be entered into a draw to win a Kindle or case of M&S champagne!Give me a shout if you have any questions or if you'd like to organise a free workshop.

Alcohol: The Law

- It’s illegal to give an alcoholic drink to a child under 5. - A person under 14 can't go into a bar or pub unless the pub

has a 'children's certificate'.- At 14 or 15 – You can go anywhere in a pub but can't drink

alcohol.- At 16 or 17 – You can buy (or be bought) beer or cider so long

as it's bought to drink with a meal.- With the exception of having a meal in a pub, it's against the

law for anyone under 18 to buy alcohol in a pub, off-licence or supermarket. It's also illegal to buy alcohol in a pub for someone who's not 18.

Alcohol is a legal drug, but….It can have harmful effects on the body and mind if drunk to excess.

NHS advice on drinking recommends that men should not regularly drink more than 3–4 units of alcohol a day and women should not regularly drink more than 2–3 units a day. ‘Regularly’ means drinking every day or most days of the week.

Pregnant women or women trying to conceive should avoid drinking alcohol. If they do choose to drink, to minimise the risk to the baby, they should not drink more than 1–2 units once or twice a week and should not get drunk.

As an adult you will decide for yourself IF and HOW MUCH you want to drink.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21586566

Do you think we’ve got the laws about alcohol right? (Why did the US try Prohibition in the 1920s?)

Your task• In a group use your interpersonal skills to discuss & plan your

chosen project (it could be about nicotine &/or alcohol)• You will need to do some research. (Don’t forget that for developed

research skills you will need to show that you have used a wide variety of resources.) Give references (& don’t just say ‘we got all this info from Wikipedia! Talk to Frank is an excellent source, but what else…?)

• Now decide what your project will look like; you will need to use your creative skills here. Is it a poster to support No Smoking Day? Or are you planning to host an event in-school (like the idea on slide 4 of this presentation)? Or a different creative idea to show the understanding you’ve gained from your research into alcohol…?

• Don’t forget to think about assessment. Remember what we’re trying to learn. Check back at the objectives (slide 2) to ensure you’ll be able to green traffic light as many as possible at the end of our unit (at Easter)