Dellwood Middle School students were given anti-drug information during a recent school campaign.

Educators felt it was a good ideas since the school is in an at-risk area, which is just west of Court Street.

"Court Street is the most prevalent drug activity location in Bermuda," said teacher Patricia Nesbitt.

"Most of our children walk through that neighbourhood daily on their way to and from school and it serves as their backyard.

"We want to arm our students with enough information and resistance skills so that their risk of being affected by drugs will be lowered."

The 88 M1 students who took part were immersed in research to answer the questions, "How have drugs affected our community over the past 11 years (during their lifetimes) so far?" and "What can we do to promote a drug-free Bermuda?"

Many community leaders and organisations involved in drug prevention and treatment have conducted workshops to help answer their questions.

"We ended our research with a drug-free conference entitled `Clean Body, Clean Soul, Drug Free', which took place on June 10," said Ms Nesbitt.

"The conference was organised by our Club PRIDE students, who also conducted workshops and the event was sponsored by the National Drug Commission.

Ms Nesbitt said earlier in the year the Ministry of Education asked middle schools to produce a curriculum integration unit, which sought to eliminate subject barriers and to answer questions that the students were looking for answers to.

"A huge graffiti board was placed in our hallway where students could write any questions of interest," said the language arts teacher.

"The teachers then took those questions and formulated one big question that students had to answer.

"Speakers came from various prevention and treatment facilities along with the Police."

The students had a body of information and activities that were common.

Sharelle Gibbons, 12, designed a T-shirt and the PRIDE students came up with the name for the conference.

"Students were assessed by presenting their binders of notes that covered all of their core subjects, performances and activities that they participated in," said Ms Nesbitt.