This innovative education pack will help young people understand the real-life implications of becoming involved in a weapons culture. The pack includes a film on DVD plus a CD-Rom with facilitator notes and a detailed session plan which includes a decision-making card game with cards and a board you can print off, interviews, discussion starters, role-plays, word searches, activity sheets and debates.The DVD contains a short film about a knifing incident in a school and a subsequent guns incident that followed, which is acted out by staff and students of a secondary school. It graphically illustrates what can happen when young people carry weapons, and how confrontation can rapidly escalate into violence and tragedy, with the reality of a subsequent police intervention. The programme provides a mechanism for young people to observe a situation involving guns and knives, and to learn through discussion, reflection and activities.The decision-making card game will help students learn about actions, consequences, facts and the law regarding guns and knives.?The cards include:Action Cards e.g. You’re trying to get ‘respect’.
Consequences Cards e.g. You will be unable to ever work in teaching, nursing, care work, sports or leisure centres, police, paramedics, fire and rescue etc.
Fact Cards e.g. A MORI youth survey found that 10% of boys aged 11 and 12 are reported to have carried a knife or other weapon.
Joker Cards e.g. In the UK it is illegal to carry a weapon and you could be sent to prison or a young offenders' institute.
Outcome Cards e.g. If you point a gun, even a fake gun, the police will shoot you.
Respect Cards e.g. Do fear and bullying make someone earn respect?
True or False? Cards e.g. Anyone from the age of ten can be prosecuted; injuring someone with a knife carries a sentence of between five years to life imprisonment.
The comprehensive session plan has learning objectives that cover:The legal position relating to the carrying or use of knives or guns
The consequences of carrying knives or guns
Being able to make safe decisions about knives or guns.
In the words of the students “No guns or knives, we want our lives!”Ages 11-16ISBN 978-1-907370-49-6
