Wehling and McCarthy (2002) suggest that school-based education programmes about healthy diet and lifestyles can help children gain knowledge and understanding. Kaur et al. (2003) considers school-based interventions beneficial as they have the potential to reach a large quantity of children. School-based interventions, must include factors likely to influence health-related behaviour as well as information giving if they are to be successful. This includes: the structure of the school day, to encourage activity and reduce sedentary behaviour (Fox 2004); provision of a range of activities to suit children who enjoy competitive sports, and also the ones who enjoy less vigorous activities (Fox 2004) The implementation of the health day will focus on aspects of nutrition, physical activity and general well-being to achieve the aim of weight control in children. Ofsteds report revealed that “Very few schools were using their funding to improve pupils’ health and well-being, especially those known to be overweight or obese,” the report