Practical guides and tools to help make your school smokefree
Our Smokefree Schools - a practical guide (2011)
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This new practical planning guide is designed to support schools with Years 1 –13 students to embrace the smokefree/auahi kore kaupapa. It contains practical advice, tools and templates for principals and Boards of Trustees to take small steps or make major change towards embedding smokefree lifestyles into the culture of your school.
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The Drug Education Matrix
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The Drug Education Matrix of Learning Outcomes for Levels 1-8 was developed in response to requests from principals, teachers, Boards of Trustees and wider school communities, for a broad framework that outlines the knowledge, understandings and skills that students should develop through learning at levels 1-8 (years 1-13) within the context of drug education. Download The Drug Education Matrix ( |
139Kb).Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing
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A 'must-read' document for school boards of trustees, principals, and drug education teachers. The guide covers developing and implementing a drug education programme. It also outlines how these programmes are supported by a whole-school approach to promoting health and wellbeing that links to wider school communities. Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing: A Guide To Drug Education in Schools ( |
A Guide to a Smokefree/Auahi Kore School (2009)
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The Guide to a Smokefree/Auahi Kore School (2009) helps schools plan their next steps towards actively promoting smokefree behaviours and attitudes to students, whānau and the wider school community. A Guide to a smokefree/Auahi Kore School |
Protective Factors poster
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The poster lists the protective factors that increase the likelihood of students staying smokefree. Protective Factors poster |
Primary Pathways: An integrated approach to drug education
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For students to be in the best position to make responsible, informed choices about drugs for themselves, they need to be provided with drug education that offers many opportunities to explore appropriate knowledge, attitudes, skills and strategies within a supportive environment. Primary Pathways: An integrated approach to drug education is free for schools. This resource is produced by the NZ Drug Foundation. For your free copy phone 0800 378 474 or go to www.nzdf.org.nz/resources/schools. |
Some top tips: A smokefree school is more than a sign on the gate.
- It's about a smokefree lifestyle for the whole school community. How smokefree is your school? Take the questionnaire.
- Get inspiration from other schools experience. By working together, parents, whānau and staff can get a shared understanding of how to increase young people's chances of remaining smokefree for life. Read the stories.
- Smokefree policies and procedures have been proven to reduce student smoking but they are just one part of a whole-of-school approach. You also need to think about including curriculum-based learning, as well as wider community links and partnerships. Read the
Guide to a Smokefree School for the practical steps your school can take. - Are your staff and students struggling to quit smoking? Nearly half of smokers aged 15-19 are thinking of quitting. Schools can help students by treating smoking as a health rather than a disciplinary issue. Smokers are more likely to successfully quit if they seek support and advice. Find out about how to support your students and staff to quit.
- Use the resources on this site - curriculum, research, posters and fact sheets. Our favourite is the Protective Factors poster.
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The Smokefree/Auahi Kore Schools Group does not necessarily endorse the content or quality of the resources on this page.
Please contact us if you know of a resource that could be included here.
Order Student Journal
This student journal is part of theStaying Smokefree Teaching Resource for Years 7 & 8 students