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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.

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:

1
Health Screening
Results
 To identify and address conditions early in childhood
2
Lifestyle
Prescription
  Tailored based on your child's current lifestyle habits and preferences
3
Vaccination
Report
(if applicable)
4
Referral
Letters
(if applicable)

*The Child Health Plan initiative will be progressively rolled out starting from Primary 1 to Primary 3.

Personalised For Every Child

Each Child Health Plan is tailored to meet the unique needs of your child.
This personalised plan is an integral 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 draw up your child's personalised lifestyle prescription, the school health doctors and nurses will reference the lifestyle questionnaire pre-filled by parents to:

Engage
Discuss with your child to understand their unique needs and interests.
Assess
Identify specific lifestyle areas where improvements can be made.
Prescribe
Provide a list of goals specifically discussed with and agreed upon by your child to work on for the year.

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:

1
Being Active
 Encouraging regular physical activity to boost energy levels and overall fitness.
2
Eating Healthy
 Promoting balanced nutrition to fuel your child's growth and development
3
Limiting Screen Use
 Managing digital exposure to foster mental and physical health.
4
Getting Enough Sleep
 Ensuring adequate rest to support learning and daily functioning.

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 would 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, we will eat an apple when we have reach home after our 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!

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