Being a healthy weight is an important part of looking after you health and wellbeing. Being overweight can increase the risk of you developing health problems such as diabetes, heart problems and mental health problems.Being underweight can also affect your health. We offer all young people in year 10 an opportunity to be weighed and measured in school. We do this sensitively and in private and we will send the results to your parents/carers. We will not share the results with your teachers or anyone else. we will send you a letter to your home to explain when we will be visiting your school and asking your to give your permission to be weighed and measured.
Once we have measured you we can tell you whether your weight is in healthy weight range. We use the BMI (body mass index) measure which is a good way of finding out whether a child is a healthy weight. If it isn’t we can help you find services to help support you to manage your weight. We will send the results to your parents/carers
If you are worried about your weight you can speak to a school nurse for advice and support by sending us a text on our ChatHealth number 07480 635363. You can talk confidentially* to a school nurse
*Safety notice: “We might inform someone if we were concerned about your safety but we would usually speak to you first. Your messages are stored and can be seen by other health care staff who follow the same confidentiality rules, We aim to reply to you within one working day and you should get an immediate message back to confirm we have received your text. Text will only be seen between 9am and 5pm. If you need help before you hear back from us contact your GP, nearest walk in centre or dial 111. Our text number does not receive voice calls or MMS picture messages. We support messaging from UK mobile numbers only (which does not include messages sent from landlines, international mobile numbers and some ‘number masking’ mobile apps). To prevent the health professional from sending messages to you, text STOP to our number. Messages are charged at your usual rates.”
