The weighing for children in Gia Thuong kindergarten is always strictly guaranteed to detect children who are malnourished, overweight, and have lower height than normal standards.
Follow the plan for 2020-2021 school year of Gia Thuong Kindergarten on the implementation of weighing and measuring for children three times a school year (September, December 2020 and March 2021). Monitor and evaluate nutritional status by using growth charts of the World Health Organization (weight for age, height for age and weight for height (children from 1 to 60 months) or BMI by age (61 up to 78 months) .The weighing for children in Gia Thuong kindergarten is always strictly ensured to detect malnourished children, overweight, and the height is lower than normal standards. From periodic weighing and measuring, the school and family will coordinate to propose measures to improve the health of children.
From December 8 to December 10, 2020, teachers in all classes have coordinated with the school's medical staff to weigh and measure for 100% of children at school. After the weight and measurement phase, the medical staff synthesizes the results brought to each class, teachers of the classes are tasked with informing parents through the propaganda board system and directly communicating with each parent. in the case of malnourished children who are overweight, stunted (standing weight compared to the first round) to combine well with the implementation of interventions to help the child be healthy and develop comprehensively.
Here are some pictures of the weighing session:
Students wait for the teacher to call their names to weigh and measure
Medical staff weighs and measures students
Medical staff weighs and measures students
Author: Nguyen Thi Nga