In this week’s and last week’s Living and Learning sessions, we have been learning about drugs.
We’ve learnt the difference between medical and non medical drugs. Within non-medical drugs, we also learnt about legal and illegal drugs.
A drug is a substance that changes the way the body or the mind works.
We learnt that medicines are drugs that can be prescribed and given to us to help us feel better – for example, Calpol, which contains paracetamol.
We’ve also learnt about being safe and only using the specified amount of a medicine and only when supervised by a trusted adult.
This week, we had a visitor from d:side and we learnt more about legal, non-medical drugs such as nicotine, alcohol and caffeine.
Did you know that an energy drink such as Monster contains around four times as much caffeine than a single shot of espresso? It also contains the equivalent of 13 teaspoons of sugar!
Help at home: See if your child can remember how to safely use medicine.
Well done, Y5 & 6!