Drug & Alcohol Education
Curriculum Overview
Year 2
Keeping Safe
Year 2
Year 5
Year 3
Year 6
Lesson 1: Staying Healthy
Lesson 2: Medicines
Lesson 3: Who gives us medicines?
Lesson 1: Risk
Lesson 2: Hazardous Substances
Substances
Lesson 3:
3: Safety Rules
Rules
Lesson 1: Why People Smoke
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Lesson 2: Physical Effects of Smoking
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Year 3
Smoking
Year 4
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Year 1
Medicines and
People Who Help Us
Year 1
Year 4
Alcohol
Year 5
Legal and Illegal
Drugs
Year 6
Preventing Early Use
Lesson 3: Smoking and Society
Lesson 1: Effects of Alcohol
Lesson 2: Alcohol and Risk
Lesson 3: Limits to Drinking Alcohol
Lesson 1: Legal and Illegal Drugs
Lesson 2: Attitudes to Drugs
Lesson 3: Peer Pressure
Lesson 1: Cannabis
Lesson 2: VSA and Getting Help
Lesson 3: Help, Advice and Support
Year 3
Scheme of Work
Smoking: Key Stage 2
Word Box: smoking, tobacco, cigarette, lung, cough, passive, effect, benefits, law, second hand,
quitting, pressure, toxic, chemicals, addictive
Learning Intentions
and Learning Outcomes
1a to talk and write about their
opinions, and explain their
views, on issues that affect
themselves and society
Learning Intention
To know what effect smoking has on the
lifestyle of a smoker
3d which commonly available
substances and drugs are legal
and illegal, their effects and
risks
Learning Intention
To know the effects of smoking on the body
To understand the impact of smoking and
passive smoking
4a that their actions affect
themselves and others, to care
about other people's feelings
and to try to see things from
their points of view
Lesson
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Why People
People
Smoke
Smoking Facts Teacher Guide
Traffic Light cards
Tobacco pictures
No Smoking symbol
Balloon
People Smoking pictures
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Physical Effects
of Smoking
Smoking Facts Teacher Guide
Talking Ball
Lesson 1, Activity 4 word storm list
Body Template
No Smoking symbol
Additional Activities
Homemade Smoking Demonstrator
described in
Smoking Facts Teacher Guide
http://smokefree.nhs.uk/quit-tools/quit-kit
Lesson 3
Smoking and
Society
Smoking Facts Teacher Guide
Smoking Scenarios
Learning Outcomes
tcomes
To understand what quitting smoking does to
the body
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3f why and how rules and laws
are made and enforced, why
different rules are needed in
different situations and how to
take part in making and
changing rules
Resources
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Learning Outcomes
To understand why people smoke
To know how smoking affects people
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2b why and how rules and laws
are made and enforced, why
different rules are needed in
different situations and how to
take part in making and
changing rules
Lesson
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Statements
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To understand how society responds to the
impact of smoking and passive smoking
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Outcomes
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To know the negative effects of smoking
To be able to make the positive choice not to
smoke
Lesson 1
Why People Smoke
Year 3
Learning Intention
To know what effect smoking has on the lifestyle of a smoker
Learning Outcomes
To understand why people smoke
To know how smoking affects people
Resources
Smoking Facts Teacher Guide
Traffic Light cards
Tobacco pictures
No Smoking symbol
Balloon
People Smoking pictures
Activities
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N.B. There are likely to be pupils with family members who smoke. Pupils may be concerned about
that person’s health or the fact that the adult may not wish to quit smoking. Highlight that for most
people the effects of smoking are reversible as soon as they stop smoking.
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1. Ground Rules
In a circle, ask the class questions to help establish some rules for these lessons. Ensure you
include the following: listen to each other,
other, treat each other with respect (this includes no laughing at
each other, taking turns, no personal questions); only say things you don’t mind people knowing
about.
2. Traffic Light Activity
In pairs, give each pair a set of Traffic Light cards – red (not healthy), yellow (not sure/both/depends)
and green (healthy). Using the Healthy/Unhealthy Activities list in the Smoking Facts Teacher Guide,
read out one activity at a time. After each activity, ask the children to talk to their partner then hold
up the colour card to indicate whether they think it’s unhealthy
unhealthy, not sure or healthy. This should
encourage a discussion that some activities are ok in moderation whereas other
others are not healthy at
all. Explain to the children that these lessons will look at smoking and how smoking cigarettes
affects people’s bodies.
3. Smoking IImages
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Using the whiteboard, display the Tobacco pictures which show the different ways people smoke.
Ask the children if they can identify them. Show the children a No Smoking symbol and ask them if
they know
ow what this means. Explain that the purpose of the symbol is to let everyone know that this
is an area where no one is allowed to smoke.
4. Smoking Word Storm
Ask the children to talk to a partner and discuss what they know about smoking. Ask the class to
word storm all their ideas. Record the ideas on the board and keep the list for the following lessons.
Encourage the class to think about health, moods (for instance smoking to reduce stress) and
lifestyles (smoking at a party). Add any important facts which haven’t come up, e.g. tobacco is a
drug. Keep the ideas for the next lesson. Ask the children to talk to their partner again and consider
if there are any questions they would like answering before they move on.
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Year 3
Why People Smoke
5. Breathing Exercises
Explain that they are going to think about how tobacco gets into the body. Ask the children to do the
following:
 Hold onto your ribs (demonstrate). Take a deep breath in again and breathe out.
Ask the children what they noticed. This should focus them on their ribcage expanding. Why do you
think this happens? Explain that our lungs are like two balloons, one under each side of our ribs. Our
lungs are the way our bodies take in the oxygen we need to live, and this is the same way smoke gets
into our bodies.
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Demonstrate the action of a lung by inflating and deflating a balloon. Discuss how smoking works,
i.e. instead of taking air into their lungs, people are taking in smoke. Alternatively if you have access
to a 3D torso, show the pupils the route to the lungs.
Explain that they are going to think aboutt how smoking makes the smoker feel. Ask the children to
do the following:
1. Stand on the spot and place a hand on their heart. Can they feel their heart beating?
2. Ask the children to jog on the spot for 1 minute. Ask them to place their hand on their heart
again. Do
o they notice any difference? Explain that the lack of breath is one of the feelings
tobacco gives a smoker.
3. Ask the children if it has made their heads feel any different? Explain that the rush of blood to
the brain is what is making them feel slightly dizzy. This is how tobacco makes a smoker feel.
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6. Why do People Smoke?
In groups, give out the People Smoking pictures. Ask the groups why they think these people are
smoking, what does it do for them? Come up with a list of reasons. As a class d
discuss if there are
any ‘good’ reasons for smoking? Why do people choose not to smoke? Explain that tobacco is
addictive. Ask the children to discus what they think addictive means.
7. Review
Remind the children of the learning outcomes. Explain that nex
next time they will look at other ways in
which smoking affects the body.
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