Your Child’s Health Plan
Welcome to the Child Health Plan*, where we work hand in hand with you towards a strong and healthy foundation for your child.
*The Child Health Plan initiative will be progressively rolled out starting from Primary 1 to Primary 3.
A Plan to Support Parents
As a parent, you play a pivotal role in guiding your child towards making positive lifestyle choices. With this plan, co-developed with your child, you as a parent will have the tools to guide your child in making positive, impactful lifestyle choices.
What’s in the Health Plan?
Each year, as part of the annual health screening in schools, our experienced doctors and nurses will create a customised Health Plan for your child, with your child. The Health Plan includes:
Results
Prescription
Report
Letters
Personalised for Every Child
Your Child's Health Plan is tailored to meet your child's unique needs.
This
personalised plan is an important part of the annual health screening conducted in schools,
ensuring that every child
receives expert guidance on
their journey to wellness.
How Does It Work?
To create your child's personalised lifestyle prescription, the school health doctors and nurses will refer to your Child Lifestyle Questionnaire* inputs to:
*The Child Lifestyle Questionnaire is an online form that will be provided to parents prior to the school health visits to collect information about their child’s lifestyle habits.
A Holistic Approach To Your Child’s Health
The lifestyle prescription focuses on four critical areas, ensuring a holistic approach to your child's health:
Using the Child Health Plan
1. Refer to your Child’s Health Plan
See what was discussed with the school’s screening team as your child may have already identified an area where he/she is keen to work on. Or you can identify an area which you and your child are keen to work on together.
For example, your child has committed to exercising three times a week by riding a scooter for 30 minutes each session. With that, you can join him/her by jogging slowly alongside while they ride the scooter.
If your child does not have a habit of eating fruits daily, both of you might like to work on eating a serving of fruit every day.
2. Plan and stick to it
Make a pinky promise on when and where both you and your child will take the action.
For example, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, you can have an apple with your child after reaching home from school or work, and then go for a walk together after dinner.
3. Bump up the praises
Encourage and reward your child’s efforts with positive reinforcement.
Use plenty of verbal praise and reward progress with star stickers, making each active moment feel valued and celebrated.
Getting started is always the
hardest. Take it slow, trust the
process, it will get easier.
Soon enough, you’ll be doing it
automatically, without even thinking
about it. You've Got This!
