1. Lesson 1 Year 4 Keeping Healthy & Safe PSHE
Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco Education
3 Lessons
Year 4
Keeping Healthy & Safe

2. Keeping Healthy & Safe I can explore what I think about healthy and unhealthy choices.

3. Working Agreement
How can we make sure we feel safe and valued in these lessons?

4. Explain: Question box and Thought wall

5. Complete the sentence: I feel healthy when ...
Think about healthy choices at home, school and when you are out and about!

6. Can you clarify these words?
Healthy
Unhealthy

7. Thinking Questions:
What sort of healthy choices might a Year 4 child make?
What sort of unhealthy choices might a year 4 child make?
Record your ideas.

8. Always healthy ? Always Unhealthy?
What do you think?
Discuss with your partner.
What do you think about treats?

9. Is being healthy just about our bodies?
What do you think?
Choose one of these sentences and tell your partner:
I feel happy when ...
I had fun when I ...
I enjoy ...

10. Five ways to well-being
Watch this short film about ways to feel great!:
In table groups can you think of ideas for each leaf for a year 4 child to try?

11. What are the links? Healthy and Unhealthy choices
Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco Education
5 ways to well-being

12. My healthy pledge
After hearing about all these ways to feel great...can you make a healthy pledge?
Volunteers complete the sentence:
I pledge to ...

13. Let’s relax Try some meditation.

14. Lesson 2

15. Keeping Healthy & Safe I know the effects of tobacco

16. Working Agreement
How can we make sure we feel safe and valued in these lessons?

17. Question box and Thought wall

18. Healthy or Unhealthy?
Tell your partner what you found out about healthy and unhealthy choices?
Can you remember any of the 5 steps to well-being?

19. What is the link between these items?

20. What is tobacco?

21. What is tobacco?
Tobacco is a product made from the leaves of a plant. It can be smoked in a cigarette, cigar or pipe. Tobacco contains the drug called nicotine.
Nicotine is also in e-cigarettes.

22. Is tobacco a drug or a medicine?

23. A drug is...
A drug is a chemical substance that changes how your brain and body work.
A medicine is a type of drug that is used to prevent illness or to make people better if they are unwell.
What is tobacco?

24. What are the effects and risks of smoking tobacco?
In pairs: Read your cards carefully.
Sort your cards into true and false piles.
If you are not sure, make a separate pile.
Share

25. Thinking Question: Why would a grown up choose to smoke?
It is against the law to buy tobacco before age 18.
There are no safety recommendations only health warnings.
Smoking is banned in public places.
There is lots of help for people to stop smoking.

26. Record a question Do you have a question about tobacco or smoking?
What might a year four child ask about tobacco or smoking?

28. Healthy ways to relax and de-stress
Some people who choose to smoke say it helps them feel calm.
Let’s try a healthier way to relax and de-stress.
Let’s do some Zumba!

29. Lesson 3

30. Keeping Healthy & Safe I can resist peer pressure

31. Working Agreement
How can we make sure we feel safe and valued in these lessons?

32. Question box and Thought wall

33. What are the effects and risks of smoking tobacco?
With a partner: record on a post-it an effect or risk to a person’s body or health if they choose to smoke?
Place them on the body outline.

34. Saying no safely
You have decided to have a weekend when you don’t have any screen time.
Your friend asks you to play a game on her laptop.
Why might it be difficult to say no to a friend?
How could you say no safely?

35. Saying no safely In 2/3s:Look at your photo-card.
Your friend says Let’s try some...
Why is this a risky choice?
Why might it be difficult to say no to a friend?
How could you say no safely?
Practise saying no to each other.

36. Saying no safely Make a class list of safe ways to say no and display.
Any volunteers who would like to show us how they would say no safely.

38. Let’s relax Try some meditation Or a Peer massage routine