Lesson video

Welcome to this first lesson as part of the health and prevention unit, specifically immunisation and vaccinations.

We will be looking at and understanding what vaccinations are.

I'm Mrs. Harris.

And in this lesson, we're going to be exploring how vaccinations work and looking at booster and annual vaccinations.

For this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper and a pen.

This is what our lesson is going to look like today.

You should already have completed the intro quiz.

In this lesson, we are going to explore how vaccinations work.

Once we have learned this, we are going to investigate what booster jabs are.

In particular, looking at the three-in-one booster vaccination, normally received by year nine pupils.

We will then understand a little more about annual vaccinations.

At the end of the lesson, there will then be an exit quiz for you to reflect on what we have learned.

Here are our key words for today's lesson.

Vaccination is treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

Edward Jenner was an English scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines, including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.

You may have learned about this in your science lessons.

Immunity is the ability to resist a particular infection.

By having a vaccination, this develops your immunity against various diseases, depending on what the vaccination has been given for.

Booster is an additional dose of a vaccine needed periodically to boost the immune system.

In year nine, pupils are offered a three-in-one booster vaccination to boost immunity against three diseases.

What is the difference between vaccination and immunisation? They are two different things.

Think back to our keywords at the start of this lesson.

Use the pictures and have a think about how vaccination and immunisation are different.

Write a response in your exercise book or on your piece of paper.

You may wish to pause the video as you carry out this activity.

Compare your answer with the definitions below.

A vaccination is treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity or protection against a disease.

In the UK, we have vaccinations against many diseases, such as measles, mumps, and rubella.

Immunisation is slightly different to vaccination.

It is a process by which a person becomes protected against a disease.

That can happen through vaccination, which is having a vaccine.

We are going to use a strategy in our lesson today that is often used by pupils when revising, and this is a mind map.

The first example has six categories, and then those categories are then split into subsections.

This could be a way you choose to present the information from today's lesson.

I sometimes like to use a particular colour for each subsection, but the example above has used a variety.

It's up to you.

The second example uses both words and pictures to summarise the information into categories.

This might be more suited to your preferred learning style and you might want to use this for presenting today's information.

I'll let you decide.

This is your task.

Prepare your mind map ready to add to throughout this lesson.

Your categories are, how does a vaccine work? What are booster jabs? What are annual jabs? Pause the video to complete this task and then resume when you are finished.

In this section, we are going to look at how vaccinations work.

This is your task.

How do vaccinations work? See if you can crack the code below and write the definition down.

All the vowels, A, E, I, O, U, have been removed.

Can you work out how vaccinations work and write it in your book or on a piece of paper? Pause the video while you're doing this, and then resume when you are finished.

How did you do? Did you manage to crack the code? Here is what was in the box.

Vaccines teach your immune system how to create antibodies that protect you and give you immunity from diseases.

Once your immune system knows how to fight a disease, it can often protect you for many years.

The main ingredient of any vaccine is a small amount of bacteria, virus, or toxin that's been weakened in a laboratory.

Your immune system works to create antibodies.

This also might be a useful piece of information you could add to your exercise book or paper around your mind map.

What's his herd immunity? You may have noticed this people talking about herd immunity when the conversation turns to vaccinations.

If enough people are vaccinated, it's harder for the disease to spread to those people who cannot have vaccines, for example, people who are ill or have a weakened immune system.

Therefore, having a vaccine also benefits your whole community through herd immunity.

Vaccines used in the UK are monitored by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA.

It's worth pointing out that any vaccines are also thoroughly tested before being rolled out to the community.

You may wish to pause the video to add this to your mind map under the section, how do vaccines work? What do you know about vaccines? Some of these statements about vaccines are true and some are not.

Which do you think are true? Pause the video and write down the ones you think are true.

Does your list match mine? Vaccines can protect you from many serious and potentially deadly diseases.

They also protect other people in your community by helping to stop diseases spreading to people who cannot have vaccines.

All vaccines have rigorous safety testing before being introduced.

They're also constantly monitored for side effects after being introduced.

They can cause mild side effects that usually disappear within a couple of days.

If enough people are vaccinated, then that can reduce or even get rid of some diseases.

Vaccines do not cause autism.

Studies have found no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

They do not weaken the immune system or cause allergies or other conditions.

They do not contain mercury, or any ingredients that cause harm in such small amounts.

But it is advised that you speak to your doctor if you have any known allergies, such as eggs or gelatine, before having any vaccinations.

This is some information again that you might want to add onto your mind map.

In this section, we are going to look at what booster vaccinations, or jabs, as they are sometimes known, are.

What is the link between these three pictures and booster vaccinations? You may wish to pause the video as you carry out this activity.

What link did you make? If you identified that you have repeated boosters throughout your life of some vaccinations, then, well done.

You need five doses of the tetanus, diptheria, and polio vaccines through your childhood.

This will build up and maintain your body's own immunity against these infections and protect you against the diseases.

You receive the first three doses as a baby.

The fourth dose is given around the age of three as a preschool booster.

And the fifth and final dose is the teenage three-in-one booster given at age 14, which is normally when you're in year nine at school.

Let's recap for a moment.

If I had my vaccinations when I was a baby and preschooler, then I'm already protected.

Is this true or false? Did you get it right? Well done if you agreed with me.

It's false.

You'll have some protection, but the teenage booster will strengthen this.

What is the three-in-one teenage booster? It's what's known as a combined vaccine, and contains cleaned or purified diptheria toxoid, or a low dose of this, cleaned or purified tetanus toxoid, and three types of killed or inactivated polio virus.

You will probably be offered this booster vaccination at school in year nine as part of the National Immunisation Programme.

It is a very safe vaccine and it's gone through rigorous testing.

The three-in-one vaccine does not contain the mercury based preservative thimerosal.

You'll probably be offered the meningococcal vaccine at the same time as your three-in-one vaccine, which is a vaccine to prevent meningitis and septicemia, which can be deadly.

All of this information is useful to put on your mind map, so you should pause the video now while you do this.

What diseases does the three-in-one teenage booster protect you from? Is it measles, polio, and diptheria? Is it polio, diptheria, and mumps? Is it tetanus, polio, and diptheria? Is it tetanus, diptheria, and rubella? Well done.

It's option three, tetanus, polio, and diptheria.

In this section, we are going to look at what annual vaccinations, or annual jabs, as they're sometimes known, are.

What are annual vaccinations? Some diseases are always present and we live with them, for example, flu.

The flu virus thrives in cold, dry conditions, so tends to be more prevalent in the winter months, so vaccines are normally given in the autumn.

Vaccines are given to vulnerable members of the community, such as the elderly, those living with asthma, those with weakened immune systems, amongst many others.

They are also given to primary school aged children who would not necessarily suffer with the flu, but can spread it very easily.

Vaccinating people annually against diseases like flu reduces the stress on the NHS and prevents hospitals getting filled up with those suffering from flu, allowing them to continue to offer regular NHS treatments, like they do throughout the year.

Like all viruses, they mutate, and so giving an annual vaccination allows it to be most suited to the most prevalent strain of the virus.

All of this is useful information to put on your mind map, so you should pause the video now while you do this.

An infographic is a way of presenting information.

It includes both images and short, sharp facts.

It is quite often used to summarise information about a particular topic, and this is what you are going to do with all the information you have gathered in our lesson today about what vaccinations are, how they work, boosters, and annual jabs.

This is your task.

Can you produce an infographic on vaccinations? You should include a title, information about how vaccinations work, information about the three-in-one teenage booster, and information about annual vaccinations.

Pause the video to complete this task and then resume when you are finished.

That brings us to the end of our lesson on understanding what vaccinations are.

Before you go and complete your exit quiz, I'd like to thank you for engaging with the tasks and ask you to reflect on our lesson.

Can you summarise what you have learned about vaccinations in 30 words or less? I hope you've acquired some useful information about the three-in-one vaccination that you will receive in year nine.