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Life Education Centres (LEC) provides drug education programmes that specifically support schools in fulfilling the aims of the Government’s strategy for drug and health education. We define a drug as any substance that changes the way a body normally works. This therefore includes: legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, all illegal drugs, volatile substances and over-the-counter and prescription medications.
Life Education Centres is a national charity providing health programmes for children from nursery to primary 7. The North Down & Ards LEC started in 2001 and it is a partnership between UCHT, SEELB and Comber Drugs Awareness Group (CODAG). All 55 Primary Schools in the area are visited annually by one of the two units: twenty schools from outside this area are also able to avail of this service. In the last year the LEC saw 18,000 children locally with the national figure being over 800,000.
Life Education Centres’ educational programmes take place in a specially designed mobile classroom, which is equipped to provide a stimulating and exciting learning environment. The programmes include discussion, drama and puppetry in order to assist the pupils to learn and remember the important health messages.
The Programmes:
Taking Care of Myself Nursery – 30 minutes
Learning objectives include:
- Explore the body: how it works what it needs; how to look after it
- Begin to understand the need of personal responsibility towards body and health with an emphasis on personal hygiene
All About Me Primary 1 –45 minutes
Learning objectives include:
- Explore the body: how it work; what it needs; how to look after it
- Discuss medicines; why we use them, safety issues; who can help with medicines
My Wonderful Body Primary 2 – 1 hour
Learning objectives include:
- Explore the body: how it works; what it needs; how to look after it; focus on balanced diet, medicine safety and personal hygiene
- Explore relationships, feelings within relationships and the affects of teasing and name-calling.
Feelings Primary 3 – 1 hour
Learning objectives include:
- Understand why we use medicines; how to follow simple safety instructions; when and how to get help from adults
- Understand that there are different types of teasing and bullying; that bullying is unacceptable; how to get help
Meet The Brain Primary 4 – 1 hour
Learning objectives include:
- Understand that nicotine and alcohol are drugs and begin to explore their effects on the body
- Reflect on and value friendship; understand that their actions affect others; understand and begin to develop skills needed to be effective in relationships with peers
It’s Great To Be Me Primary 5 – 1 hour 15 minutes
Learning objectives include:
- Understand that all medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines; there are different types of drugs; discussion of cigarettes and alcohol, their effects and associated risks
- Identify risks; identify and understand peer influences; identify and practise decision-making in relation to health
Friends Primary 6 – 1 hour 45 minutes
Learning objectives include:
- Deepen their knowledge about cigarettes and alcohol: their effects and associated risks
- Understand assertiveness and apply it to situations related to drug use
Decisions Primary 7 – 1 hour 45 minutes
Learning objectives include:
- Deepen knowledge of legal and illegal drugs, in particular cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis and volatile substances; reasons why people use them, their effects and associated risks
- Develop an understanding of group dynamics and discuss skills needed to function more effectively in peer-group situations
For further information please contact Alison Doake on (028) 9151 0275.