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school nurse letter

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devonshiredumpling · 14/02/2015 18:42

got a letter this morning rom the schoolnurse service to say that after being weighed my dd has been catergorised as severely overweight. we also got a leaflet saying that her diet could be better (she has at least seven portion of friut and veg) we also need to increase her activity level but since moving to the country we cannot get her out of the garden and off her bike ,she is tall for her age at 122.8 cm and she weighs 29.9kg but you cannot see any fat on her she is five .any help would be good aibu to feel peeved about this (she is five and half)

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SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:35

X-post, bun.

SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:36

rhonda vaccinations were offered in my Dcs school but I didn't want them.

No shit, Sherlock.

Pipbin · 14/02/2015 23:37

Can you not hear everyone telling you through your tin foil hat that the school has nothing to do with the health checks? Moreover the school couldn't give a shiny shit if your child has a health check or not.

Janethegirl · 14/02/2015 23:38

The school was fine, but I did not want to have any dealings with any healthcare in the school. My dc were seen by the GP and had all vaccinations there. Why is this so difficult to understand??

SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:38

Pipbin

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Pipbin · 14/02/2015 23:39

Jane - some schools are used as polling stations during elections. Do you object to that too?

zoemaguire · 14/02/2015 23:39

No vaccines on school premises. But of course. I guess its a bit like my children not wanting their pasta and bolognese sauce touching on the plate. Only a little bit less rational even than that.

Pipbin · 14/02/2015 23:40

And what about when the zombie apocalypse starts and they use the school as a makeshift hospital, what then?

Janethegirl · 14/02/2015 23:40

Pipbin why would I care re elections???

SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:41

Why is this so difficult to understand

Says the poster who cannot understand that the organisation carrying out height and weight checks in school is exactly the same organisation that allegedly weighs her children in a GP surgery.

zoemaguire · 14/02/2015 23:41

Jane, it is not that we aren't understanding what you are saying. It is that what you are saying is totally divorced from reality, sanity and logic. But I think you are just having a laugh really.

thewavesofthesea · 14/02/2015 23:41

My son is the same height and is 23kg. He eats like a horse but never stops moving and eats a very varied diet. That is heavy.

The good news is that you know about it now, and can do something about it, good luck :-)

Janethegirl · 14/02/2015 23:41

I only care with anything that directly impinged on my dc.

Pipbin · 14/02/2015 23:42

Because, Jane, you think schools should be for education only.

SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:43

But I think you are just having a laugh really.

I wish Sad

Janethegirl · 14/02/2015 23:43

Yes Pipbin you've got it.

sticklebrickstickle · 14/02/2015 23:44

Vaccinations are done in schools but they are carried out by school nurses. School nurses are trained nurses and they are employed by the NHS - they are nothing to do with the department of education or individual schools. School nurses simply see children within schools (on behalf of the local health board) because that is often easier than having parents bring their children into their local GP.

I can understand why somebody might prefer to have their child's health monitored by their GP rather than the school nurse but understand the school nurse is really nothing to do with the school and is not acting on behalf of or under instruction from the school. They are a health service employed accordingly and their managers and offices etc will often be based in the child health department of the local hospital, not in a school.

Pipbin · 14/02/2015 23:45

But having polling stations in schools mixes education and politics.

You do understand that the nurse who does the weighing and measuring might be the exact same person who does the weighing and measuring at the GPs.

OwlinaTree · 14/02/2015 23:46

We've all tried sticklebrick, she's not listening....

WineCowboy · 14/02/2015 23:46

jane !?!?!?

That's all.

SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:46

stickle, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all that has been said to jane over and over again and she simply doesn't understand it, or refuses to, because it doesn't fit with her idea that schools are conspiring to do unmentionable things with height and weight data that they have nothing to do with.

Janethegirl · 14/02/2015 23:47

Yes but I preferred by dc to be immunized at the local surgery by nurses they trusted.

Obviously by the general opinion on this thread I am being unreasonable but it's my choice as a parent.

SuburbanRhonda · 14/02/2015 23:48

How do your DCs know which nurses they trust, jane?

CaptainHolt · 14/02/2015 23:49

When you are taking up the GPs time getting them to weigh your child, is your child allowed to read their reading book in the waiting room?

Janethegirl · 14/02/2015 23:49

There are two at the local surgery and I book them in with the one they like.