Life Education Programme
Educating children about the effects and risks associated with the use of drugs,including alcohol and tobacco. The health education programme is targeted at 4 – 11 year-olds and aims to help them make healthy choices in their life-styles.
The timetables for the forthcoming visits (10th September - 9th October 2007) of the Life Education Unit to Warrington primary schools is now available. If you would like to see the unit in action (or have an interested colleague or potential sponsor for the unit (it costs £1000 /week for rental) then please contact the club. The schools being visited include Grappenhall Heyes, Our Lady’s RC Primary School, St. Barnabas, St Helen's Warrington, Thelwall Infants and Woolston.
The health education programme is targeted at 4 – 11 year-olds and aims to help them make healthy choices in their life-styles. The programmes are delivered with a blend of audio-visual wizardry and good old-fashioned hands- on teaching aided by Harold the Giraffe (the hand puppet!). There is a good deal of interactive participation with the children. The various classes and their content vary according to age but are designed overall to: Educate children about the effects and risks associated with the use of drugs, including alcohol and tobacco; Contribute to life skills and health education programmes; Develop an understanding of the wonders of the body and how to look after it. Our children are facing ever- increasing pressures to and temptations to damage their health and their futures.
A recent youth survey found that by the age of 16, 57% of children regularly ‘binge drink’; 70% have smoked cigarettes ; 28% have smoked cannabis ; 10% have used solvents ; 15% are overweight. A spin-off to these statistics is an increase in anti-social behaviour resulting in 8 out of 10 crimes being drug-related.