This document summarizes a classroom session on understanding personal and social wellbeing. It discusses housekeeping items, session objectives which include identifying the five ways to wellbeing and discussing substance misuse. Various classroom activities are outlined like a paper airplane game to get to know each other and a group activity matching pictures and names of commonly used substances. Effects of substance misuse and reasons for misusing substances are also discussed.

1. Did anybody look up…
Being in the here and now,
in the moment?
What is the name of it?

2. Understanding Personal
& Social Wellbeing
with Michelle Walsh @ The Waterside
Centre
01254 354413
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk

3. Housekeeping
 Fire evacuation
 Toilets
 Smoking – Away from the front door
 Phone calls / appointments – Outside of
classroom time
 Commitment – Always AIM for 100%
 Sessions - Until 4th of November
 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. Session 2 Objectives
1. Re-cap - Identify the FIVE ways to well-being
2. State at least 3 ways that you are able to look after your
own well-being
3. Share responses from homework task
4. Give examples of legal substances that people misuse
BREAK
5. State a danger associated with using a legal high
6. Give examples of illegal substances that people misuse
7. Give examples of reasons why people misuse substances
8. List consequences of substance misuse on the individual

5. What else can you
expect..?
 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

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
• Something nice that you saw on your way in to
class this afternoon
• Something you did this week that contributes to
the Five Ways to Wellbeing
• 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. Does anyone remember all of the
5 ways to Wellbeing..?
Without looking!
See if you can get them all…

8. Re-cap - What are the FIVE ways
to well-being and what do they
mean?

9. How can you look after your own
well-being?
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

10. What techniques are there
to look after your own
Wellbeing?
QR code available on Learning
Mat

11. Take the ‘How are
you?’ quiz from NHS.
Record feedback on
Learning Mat.

12. What other courses are
available?
 Maths, English and ICT are vitally important when considering further
education and employment – If you are considering progression, then
achieving these qualifications are essential and beneficial to your future
 There are unaccredited learning opportunities, through Lancashire Adult
Learning, for you to be able to discover more about the Wellbeing
techniques and keeping well
 Mental Health Level 1 & 2 and Alcohol Awareness Level 1 & Substance
Misuse Level 2 are qualifications which are directly linked to Wellbeing
and you could consider these for progression
 If you are unsure about what you want to do next, you could discuss
your options with Richard (reception) or you could use National Careers
Service website to explore different job profiles.

13. Homework
You needed to access Itslearning by using your
login guide… Phone/Laptop/Tablet/Computer
Have a look through the resources available to
you
Find Week 1 information
Look at the questions from the ONS Survey.
For each of these questions I’d like you to give an
answer on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is ‘not at all’
and 10 is ‘completely’.
Write the questions and your answers on the back of
this sheet. Please include the date you answered the
questions.

14. Complete the
rest of the
information on
the Learning
Mats

15. Any questions so far?

16. Understanding
Substance
Misuse – Know
about substances
that people misuse

17. What do you already know?
Work in pairs/groups of 3 to create a list
of different substances that people may
use/misuse.
You have 3 minutes to list as many as
possible

18. Legal substances
Work in pairs/3’s to put these
into 2 lists…
List 1 = substances which are
LEGAL
List 2 = substances which are
ILLEGAL

19. You may have got
thins like…
 Caffeine
 Ecstasy
 Solvents
 Paracetamol
 Sugar
 Chocolate
 Alcohol
 Cocaine
 Heroin
 Nicotine
 Prescribed medication - Oxycontin = legal opiod,
Morphine, Valium, Ritalin

20. BREAK TIME
15 minutes = Plenty of time
for a brew, chat, drink of
water, toilet visit 

21. What are legal highs..?
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

22. Different types of
drugs…
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
Picture
cards
Name
cards

23. Workbook
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

24. Understanding
Substance
Misuse – Know
about effects of
substance misuse
the individual

25. Reasons for misusing
substances…
The reasons can usually 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
Trauma
(abuse /
war…)
Learned
Behaviour
(parents /
carers)
Social
Deprivation
(no jobs /
poor
housing…)
Mental /
Physical
Health
issues
Personality
type (risk
taking…)

26.  Discuss the potential consequences (result or
effect) within a small group
 Use the worksheet to highlight these
consequences and the areas on the body
they may apply to
Consequences (result or effect)
of substance misuse on the
individual/body

27. Workbook
Now you have explored some ideas about the
responsibility for Well-being;
 Complete the top section of page seven
 Bottom of page seven is homework
 All answers you provide, need to be your
own thoughts and ideas

28. Most will – State what is meant by
‘dependency’ in relation to drug use
Some will - Outline differences
between psychological and physical
drug dependency
Research if needed;
Complete this in full sentences on the back of this
sheet please.
Homework

29. Session 2 Objectives
Did you..?
1. Re-cap - Identify the FIVE ways to well-being
2. State at least 3 ways that you are able to look after your
own well-being
3. Share responses from homework task
4. Give examples of legal substances that people misuse
BREAK
5. State a danger associated with using a legal high
6. Give examples of illegal substances that people misuse
7. Give examples of reasons why people misuse substances
8. List consequences of substance misuse on the individual

30. Next Session
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

31. Questions