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Main Interventions > A Model Drug Education Curriculum.
A Model Drug Education Curriculum.
| Themes/Topics/Outcomes |
Message |
Resource |
Know and understand simple safety rules about **
medicines, tablets,
solvents, household substances. |
Health |
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| Understand appropriate procedures for dealing with or responding to discarded syringes or needles. |
Health |
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| Know that all substances can be harmful if not used properly. ** |
Health Social |
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| Know that all medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines. ** |
Health Social |
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Know about different types of medicine and that some people need **
them to live a normal life. |
Social HealthMoral |
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| Know about the role of drugs as medicines. * |
Health SocialLegal |
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| How can I help protect my body and look after it?How can I help with hygiene, simple first aid, rest, and relaxation?What happens when I take pills and medicines which are prescribed for me? |
HealthSocialMoral |
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| What happens when I am given medicine and injections? |
Health Social |
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| What goes into my body and who puts it there? For example: food, drink, medicine, pills, air, dust, smoke, smells.How does it get in? How does it make me feel? Where do I think it goes? |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Consider how the substances I put into my body affect how I feel and how they affect how healthy I am now and in the future. |
Health SocialLegal |
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| Compare the risks know to be associated with a range of risk-taking behaviours, including substance mis-use (e.g. PE - road safety - workshops and tools.) |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| What vocabulary do I need to know? |
Social Moral |
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Note:
* - indicates Topic required by National Curriculum Science Orders.
** - indicates Topic recommended by National Curriculum Council Curriculum Guidance 5: Health Education.
A Model Drug Education Curriculum.
Note: * - indicates Topic required by National Curriculum Science Orders.
** - indicates Topic recommended by NCC Curriculum Guidance 5: Health Education.
SC - indicates Topic from earlier Key Stage to be re-taught as part of Spiral Curriculum.
| Themes/Topics/Outcomes |
Message |
Resource |
| That tobacco, alcohol and other drugs can have harmful effects. * |
Health Legal |
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| Discuss the role and influence of advertising, especially of tobaccoproducts, on individuals' substance use. |
SocialMoral |
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| What do I need to know about smoking, alcohol, tea, coffee, inhalants and mood-changing substances? |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Know that all medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines. SC ** |
Health Social |
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| Know that there are over-the-counter, prescribed, legal and illegal substances and have some understanding of their effects. ** |
Health SocialLegal |
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| Know that all substances can be harmful if not used properly. SC ** |
Health Social |
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| Recognise and understand the meaning of some Hazchem symbols. |
Health Social |
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| Know the important and beneficial part which drugs have played **in society. |
SocialMoral |
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| Know about different types of medicine and that some people need them to live a normal life. SC ** |
Social HealthMoral |
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| How can I help protect my body and look after it? SCHow can I help with hygiene, simple first aid, rest, and relaxation?What happens when I take pills and medicines which are prescribed for me? |
HealthSocialMoral |
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| Learn about the substances I put into my body, including food and drink, inhalants, prescribed medicines, drugs and injections. |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Consider how the substances I put into my body affect how I feel and SChow they affect how healthy I am now and in the future. |
Health SocialLegal |
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| Know how to make simple choices and exercise some basic techniques for resisting pressure from friends and others.** |
Social |
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| Compare the risks know to be associated with a range of risk-taking behaviours, including substance mis-use. SC |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| How much control have I got over my own life and behaviour? How much control would I like to have over my own life and behaviour? |
Social |
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| What vocabulary do I need to know? SC |
Social Moral |
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A Model Drug Education Curriculum.
Note: * - indicates Topic required by National Curriculum Science Orders.
** - indicates Topic recommended by NCC Curriculum Guidance 5: Health Education.
SC - indicates Topic from earlier Key Stage to be re-taught as part of Spiral Curriculum.
| Themes/Topics/Outcomes |
Message |
Resource |
| What vocabulary do I need to know? SC |
Social Moral |
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| Know that tobacco, alcohol and other drugs can have harmful effects. SC * |
Health Social |
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| Know that all substances can be harmful if not used properly. SC ** |
Health Social |
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| Know that all medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines. SC ** |
Health Social |
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| That the abuse of alcohol, solvents and other drugs affects health. * |
Health Social |
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| Know how to make simple choices and exercise some basic techniques for resisting pressure from friends and others.SC ** |
Health SocialMoral |
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| What do I need to know about smoking, alcohol, tea, coffee, inhalants and mood-changing substances?SC |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Know and understand simple safety rules about medicines, tablets, solvents, household substances.SC ** |
Health |
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| Understand appropriate procedures for dealing with or responding to discarded syringes or needles.SC |
Health Social |
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| Know about the role of drugs as medicines. SC * |
Health SocialLegal |
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| Know the important and beneficial part which drugs have played in society. SC ** |
Social Moral |
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| Know about different types of medicines and that some people need them to live a normal life. SC ** |
Health SocialMoral |
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| How can I help protect my body and look after it? How can I help with hygiene, simple first aid, rest, and relaxation?What happens when I take pills and medicines which are prescribed for me? SC ** |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Know the basic facts about substances including their effects and relevant legislation. ** |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Know that there are over-the-counter, prescribed, legal and illegal substances and have some understanding of their effects. SC ** |
Health SocialLegal |
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| Compare the risks known to be associated with a range of risk-takingbehaviours, including substance mis-use. |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Consider how the substances I put into my body affect how I feel and how they affect how healthy I am now and in the future. SC |
Health SocialLegal |
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| How much control have I got over my own life and behaviour? How much control would I like to have over my own life and behaviour? SC |
Social |
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| Recognise personal responsibility for decisions about substance use. ** |
Health SocialMoral |
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| Be aware of myths, misconceptions and stereotypes linked with substance use. ** |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| Discuss the role and influence of advertising, especially of tobacco SCproducts, on individuals' substance use. |
Social Moral |
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| Discuss the role of the media in influencing attitudes towards drugs, particularly smoking and alcohol.SC ** |
Social Moral |
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| Look at the influence of role-modelling on young people's substance use. |
Social Legal |
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| What goes into my body and who puts it there? For example food, drink, medicine, pills, air, dust, smoke, smells.How does it get in? How does it make me feel? Where do I think it goes? SC |
Health SocialLegal Moral |
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| That the body's natural defences may be enhanced by immunisation and medicines.* |
Health SocialMoral |
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| Develop appropriate techniques for coping with situations in which SC **substance use occurs. SC ** |
Social Moral |
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| Examine the part played in music by substance use. |
Social |
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| Learn about the substances I take into my body, including food and SCdrink, inhalants, prescribed medicines, drugs and injections. |
Health SocialLegal |
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| Examine the concentration by politicians in Britain on illegal drug use. |
Social LegalMoral |
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| What happens when I am given medicine and injections? |
Social LegalMoral |
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| Consider the place of substance mis-use in the broader context ofobsessive and addictive behaviours. |
Social HealthLegal Moral |
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| Understand how lung structure allows gas exchange to take place; and how smoking affects lung structure and gas exchange. * |
Health |
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Last update: 12.02.2003
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