Angela Simms, quality improvement officer with West Dunbartonshire education and cultural services department, said she sees this as a natural progression of highly effective work already done in the authority's primary and secondary schools. She set up a working group of nursery heads, who decided that the most powerful method of delivery would be through drama.
Mrs Simms said, 'We were surprised, when listening to the headteachers, what the youngsters were already aware of.'
The Scottish Drug Challenge Fund awarded the council 25,000 to work in partnership with Pace Theatre Company. They will introduce the children to a digital character from another world, who wants to learn about our world. For example, he might find a disused needle or a medicine cabinet, and questions will be raised about what to do and what not to do in such a situation.
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