Healthy weight in children (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)

Views

When local young people were asked about their health and lifestyle in the 2013 Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire:
43% of Year 6 pupils said that they'd like to lose weight, which is much higher than the 33% of pupils who said the same across the rest of England
10% of pupils reported that they felt afraid to go to school because of bullying 'often' or 'very often' and 26% said that they had been bullied at or near school in the last 12 months
Only 33% of year 6 pupils (combined girls and boys) recorded high levels of self-esteem, which is lower than the 42% average for the wider England sample.
In terms of self-esteem in older young people, a clear gender difference is apparent with fewer girls recording high levels of self-esteem compared to boys, for example 26% of year 10 girls, compared with 44% of boys.
Key worries for 14 - 15 year old boys and girls were exams and tests (42% and 65% respectively). Second on the list for girls (52%) and last for boys (18%) was 'the way they look'
65% of 14 - 15 year old girls said that they would like to lose weight.