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Life Education has been successfully supporting primary school drug and health education since 1979.
Life Education’s comprehensive programs have been specifically designed to assist schools achieve the outcomes of their state and territory curriculum. Activities are based on the Health and Physical Education outcomes. They are also designed to be integrated into additional curriculum areas, as deemed relevant by individual schools.
Primary schools play a vital role in preparing children for life and in shaping their journey through school. Research shows that the earlier we encourage children to develop positive self image, self esteem and a feeling of uniqueness, the better equipped they are to make positive healthy choices later in life.
Life Education assists student to:
- acquire age appropriate knowledge to support informed health choices
- develop and practice skills and strategies to act upon individual decisions
- recognise the values and attitudes that may influence lifestyle choices and behaviours.
Our highly skilled educators, utilising their experience and training, work with schools to develop programs/sessions to support the provision of drug and health education within the school. Sessions are designed to be age specific and sequential.
Through our unique approach of engaging the community in our work we help develop connections between home and school, between families, children and their teachers.
Junior Primary School Modules
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Harold’s Surprise: 1st and 2nd Years of Schooling
Possum holds a party in the park for the friends who looked after her while she was sick. Harold and the class are invited to the party and are asked to take some healthy food. They have lots of fun following the map to the picnic spot in the park. Issues are raised when one of the children incurs a minor injury on the slide in the park and a discarded syringe is found in the park. As well as providing some delicious party food, Possum has a surprise for everyone at the party. The surprise is in a big wrapped box which the class gets to open at the end of the session. |
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Clued Up: 1st and 2nd Years of Schooling
When Cocky goes missing, Harold, with the help of the class, does some earnest detective work to find him. The components of a healthy lifestyle, including safety with medicines are examined in the search for Cocky. Others issues covered include:
- personal safety
- syringe safety
- body knowledge and self-assertion skills
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Harold’s Mystery Tour: 1st - 3rd Years of Schooling
Harold invites the class to attend a mystery tour in a special bus. On a humorous journey they visit a variety of places including The Full Body Experience, a beach and a waterslide. They discuss issues and engage in activities centred on:
- the main internal human body parts
- safety in public places
- safe use and storage of medicines
- appropriate remedies for illness
- being scared/pressured to do things and ways of coping
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Harold’s Heroes: 1st – 3rd Years of Schooling
Harold invites the class to join him and his Super-Hero Team. The team’s job is to go around making the world a healthier and safer place for everyone. Class members become Super-Heroes by interacting with the A-V and suggesting solutions to the problems. The Super-Heroes fly to the rescue and facilitate the exploration of:
- local environmental and health issues including pollution/passive smoking
- issues around individual need for medicines and their safe use and storage
- emergency (drug) procedures
- issues around litter/used syringes
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Heart Central: 2nd - 4th Years of Schooling
Harold takes the class on a train journey, travelling in the blood through the human body. The journey begins at the heart and visits a number of other body parts. As well as examining some human body parts and their function, other issues raised are:
- peer pressure
- passive smoking
- safety with medicines
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Senior Primary School Modules
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Harold’s Diary: 3rd – 5th Years of Schooling
Harold offers to share with the class his diary entries about one week at school. This is a way of exploring relationship and friendship issues relevant to middle year students. A drama trigger video set in the school yard, vox pops of children talking about their feelings and a fun animation about food provide the stimuli for specific health/drug discussion about:
- bullying and
- expressing emotions
- defining a drug
- developing coping strategies and support networks
- safety with medicines
- healthy food choices
- active life-styles
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Mind Your Medicine: 4th and 5th Years of Schooling
A multi-age level module for middle and upper primary students. Mind Your Medicine is a fun, interactive game show which includes animated informercials, quiz games, short dramatised films and interviews with young Australians about issues related to medicines, self worth and communication.
- Recognises that health is made up of many dimensions such as physical, emotional and environmental
- Recognises that effective communication is an essential component of maintaining positive relationships
- Identifies medicines as drugs and the consequences of their misuse
- Recognises that medicines are sometimes needed to maintain health
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The Burning Issue: 6th – 8th Years of Schooling
A multi-age level module recommended for senior primary years. The Burning Issue employs the computer game concept to unravel the complxities of smoking issues in Australia. By following the travels of the main character LEA through his world, students are activley engaged in a process of discovery that unravels the "burning issues" about smoking. The effects of smoking on both the individual and the community are pivotal on this stimulating, interactive upper primary module.
- Identifies services and products that advise, educate and inform people of the facts about smoking
- Identifies both personal and community strategies to reduce the harms related to tobacco use
- Examines the harmful effects that smoking has on the environment
- Describes the laws governing the advertising, sale and use of tobacco products
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News About Booze: 6th – 8th Years of Schooling
A multi-age level module recommended for senior primary years. This module concentrates on alcohol and related social issues. Students are encouraged to to develop strategies to reduce the risks or harms associated with alcohol misuse. It explores major influences and pressures on people to drink alcohol and look at different codes of conduct concerning alcohol in the community
- Recognises that alcohol passes through and affects body systems, sometimes changing behaviour
- Discusses the level of consumption of alcohol for an adult that is low risk
- Examines both short and long term health consequences associated with alcohol misuse
- Discusses the myths surrounding the use of alcohol
- Recognises the level of risk is defined by the relationship between the environment, the drug and the person
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It’s Your Call: 6th - 8th Yrs of schooling
A multi-age level module recommended for senior primary years. This is a broad module which explores and clarifies the definition of a drug as well as the broad range of factors that vary the level of risk associated with the use of (mainly) legal drugs. Through active engagement students examine the decision-making process, especially the factors that influence decision-making. Using the SEARCH model they employ role-play to further asses and develop strategies for dealing with pressure situations.
- Explains the definition of a drug
- Recognise that legal drugs (e.g. alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and medicines) have varying degrees of risk
- Recognises the level of risk is defined by the relationship between the person, the drug and the environment
- Describes behaviours that can risk the safety of self and others
- Examines S.E.A.R.C.H. as a problem-solving model
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