St Benedict's Catholic Primary School

This is an anonymous, safe and secure messaging system, where School Nurses provide confidential help and advice for young people aged 11-19 and for parents of 0-19s.  This is known as ChatHealth.

The phone number for Parents and Carers of children aged 5-19 is 07480 635944

The phone number for Young People aged 11-19 is 07507 330101

Or Scan the QR code

The School Health Team can:

• Promote healthy eating by providing advice and support such as packed lunch policy, healthy break time provision (Warrington’s Tasty Tuck Award);
• Signpost children and families into the Warrington 0-19 services ‘Healthier families Warrington’ programme for children, young people and families  
• work with the whole family, to offer additional support where appropriate.

Healthier Families Warrington – Warrington’s 0-19 service healthy lifestyle services for children, young people and families - Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is delivering a digital healthy weight 8 week programme for three different ages:

1. Under 5’s
2. Primary school children
3. Secondary school children

The programme is the same format for all ages but will have different content based on the different ages. 

Programme

• Week 1 – Intro to programme. Vitamins/Milk. Fussy Eating -Home
• Week 2 – 5 main food groups.  Portion sizes - Home
• Week 3 – Healthy Balanced diet.  Fast food v fresh food - Online
• Week 4 – Reading food labels - Online
• Week 5 – Sugars/Fats - Online
• Week 6 – Mealtimes - Online
• Week 7 – Oral Health - Online
• Week 8 – Measurements, review and assess – Home

Each week will have a goal, a PowerPoint on that week’s theme, an exercise video demonstrating a simple exercise for that week, links to recipes, BDA fact sheets etc and an activity for the week – guess which drink has the highest amount of sugar etc.

Rolling programme accessible 52 weeks a year with minimal wait time.

Children and families can be referred by their GP and other health professionals using existing 0-19 referral processes or parents can self-refer into via email to bchft.0to19@nhs.net