Vaping/smoking
Teaching resources
This toolkit provides schools with useful resources, important information, guidance, and relevant legislation to help tackle youth vaping. It serves as a handy reference, giving educators the tools they need to raise awareness, act, and create a vape-free environment for students.
The PSHE Association Vaping year 9 lesson pack is designed to follow on from the Year 9 lessons in their existing suite of drug and alcohol education lessons. This lesson will help students: understand the impact of influences, influencers and marketing on vaping-related choices and behaviours, explain the consequences of vaping, including the environmental cost, and analyse ways to challenge influences and misconceptions about vaping.
Teacher Training GOV.UK also offers a training module to support teachers and/or subject leads with understanding and delivering the drugs, alcohol and tobacco section of the statutory relationships, sex and health education curriculum.
NCSCT training materials: NCSCT has developed materials for a short (1–2 hours) training session aimed at staff who already work with young people (e.g. school nurses, teachers, youth workers, staff in children’s services). Follow the link to resources about young people: stopping smoking and stopping vaping.
Vaping - Key Stage 3 form time activities School Zone vaping resources
From the Department of Health & Social Care. Students learn about social pressures around vaping, its impact factors, and the effects of nicotine on the adolescent brain. Activities include:
•three bitesize PowerPoint sessions
•three films to support the activities
•teacher guidance document for supporting conversations around vaping
Local support services
Smokefree Life Berkshire/Bella Stop Smoking Berkshire | Smokefreelife Berkshire (aimed at all)
Useful links
National website - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a public health charity set up by the Royal College of Physicians to end the harm caused by tobacco. Their website includes a range of resources including information on vaping in young people. ASH - Resources on youth vaping
National support and information for young people: FRANK offers information about Vapes and Nicotine for under 18’s. Young people can contact Frank directly via phone, text or live chat
Drugs, alcohol and smoking | Childline (aimed at pupils)