1. Understanding Personal
& Social Wellbeing
Level 1 Award
with Michelle Walsh @ The Waterside Centre
01254 354413
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk
2. Please have a look over your enrolments and assessment
booklets
Complete a support form to ensure that we have the levels
of support offered in class, right for you
Paperwork
3. Housekeeping
Fire evacuation
Toilets
Smoking – Away from the front door
Phone calls / appointments – Outside of classroom
time
Commitment – Always AIM for 100%
Sessions - 8th of November – 20th of December
Absences – to be reported to tutor
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk or Waterside (01254 354413)
You will be required to catch up in your own time
Brews – 25p per session – WASH OWN CUPS
Questions?
4. 1. Take part in icebreaker
2. Re-cap - Identify the FIVE ways to well-being & who is responsible
3. State different ways that you are able to look after your own well-being
4. Share ideas from homework task - State the role of the government in
regards to well-being
5.Give examples of legal substances that people misuse
6. Identify dangers associated with legal highs
BREAK
7. Give examples of illegal substances that people misuse
8. State why illegal substances may vary in quality and potency
9. Give examples of reasons why people misuse substances
10. List consequences of substance misuse on the body
11. Discuss homework task – Outline differences between psychological and
physical drug dependency
Session 2
5. Key terminology = Legal, illegal, substances, misuse
English = Verbally communicating effectively with others,
writing sentences to show your understanding
British Values = Respect – Following group rules to help
form mutual respect and comfortable learning
environment for everyone
Individual liberty – the freedom to make the choices about
what you want to do in the future
What else can you expect..?
6. Paper Airplane Game
So that we can get better acquainted with one another, we are going to
throw some paper planes around the room…
You will be given a sheet of A4 paper.
On this sheet ……
• Write your name
• Your favourite food/Most unusual food eaten
• A hobby or interest
• What work or study would you like to do?
• Then fold the sheet of paper into your best airplane.
• When we are all ready, we will commence throwing the airplanes from
one end of the room to see whose airplane reaches the furthest
(These are not to be thrown at each other)
• Pick up someone else’s plane and we will begin to introduce the person
on that plane.
7.
8. The answer is… YOU, mainly!
The government also have SOME
responsibility which you will find out
about later
Who is responsible for your well-
being?
9. Without looking!
See if you can get them all…
Does anyone remember all of the
5 ways to Wellbeing..?
10. Re-cap - What are the FIVE ways to
well-being and what do they mean?
11. Discuss this in pairs and write some ideas
down about what YOU are able to do to
ensure YOU are looking after your own well-
being
The five ways to wellbeing hand-out will
give you a hand with this
How can you look after your own
well-being?
12. You needed to research the role of the
government in regards to well-being
You should have…
Written a few sentences about what the government are doing
to promote and support people with their well-being
Share these ideas with your table – Write anything extra which
you haven’t included
Homework
13. Now you have explored some ideas about the
responsibility for Well-being;
Complete the second page of the workbook
All answers you provide, need to be your own
thoughts and ideas
Workbook
17. Work in pairs/groups of 3 to create a list of different substances
that people misuse.
You have 3 minutes to list as many as possible
What do you already know?
18. Work in pairs/3’s to create a list of
substances which are LEGAL
Legal substances
19. Caffeine
Solvents
Paracetamol
Sugar
Chocolate
Alcohol
Nicotine
Prescribed medication - Oxycontin = legal opiod, Morphine,
Valium, Ritalin
We should remember that not all MISUSED substances are illegal
You may have got…
20. Use the worksheets on your desk to help you
write a sentence or two about what legal highs
are and their dangers
Work in pairs/3’s to share what you think so you
know you are on the right track
What are legal highs..?
21. 15 minutes = Plenty of time for
a brew, chat, drink of water,
toilet visit
BREAK TIME
22. There are many different types of substances that can be misused. The
following group task is designed to help you think about some of the most
commonly used/misused . Work together to match up:
Work together and help each other out – answers will follow
Different types of drugs…
Picture
cards
Name
cards
23. Complete the individual hand-out given to you
This is a comprehension task where you will gather
information from the document to be able to answer in
detail.
We will share some ideas at the end
Why illegal substances vary in quality
and potency
24. Now you have explored some ideas about
understanding substance misuse;
Complete page six of the workbook
All answers you provide, need to be your own
thoughts and ideas
Workbook
25. Generally speaking types of substance use and misuse can be grouped into the following areas:
1. Experimentation 2. Recreation 3. Dependent 4. Prescribed
An individual’s decision to use drugs may stem from any number of factors…
Work together to make a list of potential factors from a person’s life that may lead them to use
drugs
Reasons for misusing substances…
Learned
Behaviour
(parents /
carers)
Social
Deprivation
(no jobs /
poor
housing…)
Mental /
Physical
Health
issues
Personality
type (risk
taking…) Trauma
(abuse /
war…)
26. Discuss the potential consequences within a small
group
Use the worksheet to highlight these consequences
and the areas on the body they may apply to
Consequences of substance misuse
on the body
27. Now you have explored some ideas about the effects of
substance misuse on the individual;
Complete page seven
All answers you provide, need to be your own thoughts
and ideas
Hand in your Wellbeing unit for assessment
Workbook
28. Outline differences between psychological
and physical drug dependency
Research if needed;
Complete 2.3 on page 8
Homework
29. 1. Take part in icebreaker
2. Re-cap - Identify the FIVE ways to well-being & who is responsible
3. State different ways that you are able to look after your own well-being
4. Share ideas from homework task - State the role of the government in
regards to well-being
5.Give examples of legal substances that people misuse
6. Identify dangers associated with legal highs
BREAK
7. Give examples of illegal substances that people misuse
8. State why illegal substances may vary in quality and potency
9. Give examples of reasons why people misuse substances
10. List consequences of substance misuse on the body
11. Discuss homework task – Outline differences between psychological and
physical drug dependency
Session 2 Objectives
Did you..?
30. You will be looking into;
Substance Misuse
Effects of substance misuse on the individual (continued)
Impact of substance misuse on others
Sources of information and support in relation to substance misuse
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