Discover how to give young people the knowledge and skills to enable them to stay safe in a drug-using world. This programme focuses on Sally George, head of PSHE at Shoeburyness High School in Essex, as she takes a Year 8 drug awareness class. Sally has devised a range of resources for her 100-minute lessons to engage students of all abilities. She starts with some knowledge-based activities: a true/false quiz, a sorting game and a circle-time debate. But in lessons like these, difficult questions crop up. Discover how Sally deals with these complex issues. This programme follows the lesson from start to finish and shows how activities work, how discussions develop and how students can be guided to develop knowledge and skills to keep them safe. It provides clear examples and ideas for activities. It also deals with how to cope with difficult questions, setting clear ground rules and organising a range of activities to suit and motivate all pupils.

Video Series: KS3/4 PSHE
Release Date 2004