By providing drug and alcohol education, we aim to:

• Enable our pupils to make healthy, informed choices through increasing their knowledge, challenging and exploring attitudes, and developing and practising skills
• Help children to value themselves and others, and to help and support each other
• Listen to our pupils’ thoughts, feelings and concerns so that our teaching responds to their needs
• Encourage an understanding of children and adults dependent on medicinal drugs
• Develop personal and social skills, such as refusal skills and decision-making skills
• Empower children to take increasing responsibility for themselves and their actions
• Increase understanding about the implications and possible consequences of drug use and misuse
• Help our pupils distinguish between different substances, considering their use, misuse, benefit and harm
• Give unbiased and correct information
• Widen understanding about related health, social and legal issues
• Enable our pupils to identify where help and support can be found
• To develop as a health-promoting school

Please click here to read our full Drug and Alcohol Education policy.