Smoke/vape teaching and promotional resources
Smokefree Sheffield posters/leaflets for schools
Smokefree Sheffield, with support from ASH and local authorities across Yorkshire and Humber, have produced a comprehensive set of resources for schools to use:
- Two posters for display in school toilets, classrooms, canteens and noticeboards.
- An electronic leaflet for parents and carers to share via newsletters or emails. Vaping and e-cigarettes: the facts for parents and carers (PDF, 174KB)
- A short animated film to start discussions in PSHE lessons, form times and assemblies.
The resources gives the evidence-based facts about vaping to children and young people and supports schools, colleges, and parents to have conversations with children and young people about vaping so they can make informed decisions with the takeaway message being - don’t smoke, don’t start to vape. There are teaching resources available that support these posters such as a classroom presentation (PPTX, 7.1MB) for use by teachers alongside the animated film. Notes pages for the presentation (PDF, 3.4MB).
Teaching resources
The PSHE Association Vaping year 9 lesson pack is designed to follow on from the Year 9 lessons in our existing suite of drug and alcohol education lessons. This lesson will help students: understand the impact of influences, influencers and marketing on vaping-related choices and behaviours, explain the consequences of vaping, including the environmental cost, and analyse ways to challenge influences and misconceptions about vaping.
Vaping - Key Stage 3 form time activities
The UK Health security Agency (UKHSA) have released the facts and impacts of vaping in these flexible NHS-approved activities for students. Across three form time sessions, students learn about social pressures around vaping, its impact factors, and the effects of nicotine on the adolescent brain. Activities include (support PSHE):
- three bitesize PowerPoint sessions
- three films to support the activities
- teacher guidance document
National websites
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a public health charity set up by the Royal College of Physicians to end the harm caused by tobacco. Their website includes a range of resources including information on vaping in young people.
ASH - Resources on youth vaping
The NHS Better Health website provides a range of information to improve health behaviours including stopping smoking.
NHS Better Health - Quit smoking this October
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