The Programmes

The RIDE 500
This programme introduces concepts of personal safety, the dangers of medicines and other drugs, the importance of being healthy and clean and the need for family and friends to pupils in Year 3 or Year 4 (7 and 8 year olds). The RIDE 500 programme is available free of charge for you to download. If you would like to dowload the programme to use please click on this link which will allow you to fill in a form with your details. You will then be e-mailed the link for downloading the RIDE 500 poster and teacher files.

It's a Jungle Out There!
This newly designed programme is for children aged 9 and features Marvin the Monkey coping with issues such as dealing with peer pressure, personal safety and understanding the problems associated with the use of alcohol and tobacco. Of course he can call upon others to give him a helping hand and learn how to be responsible and show respect, something that he has not always done!

One pupil involved in our pilot class remarked that, "Nobody has spoken to me about this before" another said, "The book helps you to understand the things that you don't know yet and you can write down what you really think - some things that you can't say to others" more info

MY LIFE
Moving up from primary to secondary schools is often a big step for young people. Their new environment seems less protective, less secure and they encounter new ideas and different problems. My Life is a new programme for Year 7 or Year 8 (11 or 12 year old children) that has been written with input from serving police officers, drug and health educationalists, teachers and young people.

The pupil’s workbooks have been designed to be attractive interesting and factual. In fact the designers have recently won an APCOM (Association of Print and Communications Managers) award for this book. The judges commenting specifically on the effectiveness of the design for this specific age group and subject matter and on the excellent quality of the solid colours printed.

The content of the book is formatted into sections to enable teachers to focus on 11 distinctive topics.

Each section contains activities and factual information that is intended to challenge their thinking and behaviour. It is essentially a programme of life skills lessons with a focus on drug, alcohol and health education.

Surrey Healthy Schools PSHE advisor Sarah Lyles writes: “Research clearly shows that effective drug education needs to take a holistic approach which builds upon young people’s knowledge and skills also giving them the opportunity to reflect upon their own and other peoples attitudes and values. RIDE is based on these principles and provides young people with the opportunity to explore scenarios appropriate to them. Building confidence assertiveness and self esteem supports pupils in developing the capacity to refuse unwelcome offers and make informed and considered decisions. This is at the heart of the RIDE programme.”

Matt Hayman the drug coordinator for Surrey DAAT a contributor of the programme writes, “In order to teach good quality drug education in schools teachers need quality materials and regular training. RIDE has consistently developed high quality materials that continue to be popular with schools in Surrey. The new My Life pack follows this tradition and Surrey DAAT were pleased to contribute to the content of the packs.”

Finally Brian Kingston, Anti Social Behaviour Officer for Spelthorne Community Safety Team speaks from experience, “Having delivered parts of the RIDE programme to schools over many years and having seen the benefits I am pleased to have been asked to assist with the writing of the new version of RIDE 2000. The new content and design is superb.”

My Life meets the requirements of the National Curriculum Key Stage 3 PSHE Guidelines and includes the key points that form the basis of the Governments Blueprint Programme for drug education in schools. more info

CHOICE
CHOICE is a 10 lesson lifeskills and drug awareness programme for Year 9 or Year 10 (13 and 14 year olds). It comprises 10 structured class discussions of specific drug and behavioural topics and is meant as a class update of ideas and attitudes. It is critical time for young people - in the midst of puberty, enjoying considerable personal freedom, eager to sample adult life - and it thus important to take time out to exchange views and raise the level of debate that, hopefully, will again spread into the playground and back to parents and guardians at home. more info

The RIDE Foundation

The Mansion, Claremont Drive
Esher, Surrey KT10 9LY
Telephone: 01372 467708
E-mail: info@ridefoundation.org.uk