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Learning objective

  • To explain when drugs and medicines can be helpful or harmful.

Success criteria

  • I can recognise when medicines can be helpful
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National curriculum

RSE and Health

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Optional: remind the children of the PSHE agreement created in the Introductory lesson: Setting rules for RSE & PSHE lessons  and recap the agreed rules. If needed, upload an image of the agreement to the Presentation: PSHE agreement.

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Adaptive teaching

Children who need support:

  • Could start with four items to sort on the Carroll diagram and then add more later.
  • Could sort pictures from the Resource: What am I? rather than words for their Carroll diagram.
  • Could use the talking frame on slide 2 of the Presentation: Carroll diagram to explain why an item belongs in a category.
  • Could use the Resource: What am I? question cards to have a bank of questions to choose from during the ‘Who am I?’ activity.

Children working at greater depth:

  • Should identify which of the items are difficult to place at first and explain why.
  • Should refer to specific harms when explaining risks for each object.
  • Could suggest a safe action for each harmful item.
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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding can:

  • Recognise when medicines can be helpful and when
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Vocabulary definitions

  • alcohol

    A drug found in some drinks.

  • cigarettes

    Rolled paper sticks that include tobacco.

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