Average height and weight?

Oh so if you took say 100 children. So many would fit into the 50th, so many in the 80th and so many in the 25th etc.

I'm not too bothered about the weight. She is exactly 4 stone with arm and leg muscles like Popeye due to all the sports she does. (oops I still think in imperial) so although lighter than an average 11 year old, around what you would expect for her height.

NO, you are not thick. It's hard to understand.

Print the chart, in color. Trace the lines from left and age (like with a yellow highlighter pen). Where they meet and pink intersects is the percentile answer. Someone smart (not me) needs to explain what 2nd means (other than tiny). Clearly she is in 2nd, I'd guess with 98% of the girls, her age, being taller.

Actually reading your following post I still don't think I get it thatbags

Maybe if I printed it out (as previously suggested) it might become clearer it's hard to view in a mini-iPad. Then I could use a ruler and follow the lines.

I'd print the weight chart too, they both show that is is smaller than mst of the girls.

Thank you Norah

She is in year 6 but is definitely the smallest child from year 4 upwards. Her sister who is in year 4 is 5 cms taller than she is .

YES. Print out both the height and weight chart. Print them big enough to fit regulation paper, then you will see the answer clearly when you follow with a ruler and yellow marker.

She is tiny, and in the 2nd (whatever that may be).

I'm somewhat convinced 2nd means 98% are bigger and taller, because percents are out of 100.

BUT someone much smarter needs to confirm what 2nd means.

Anyone?????

If it any use consolation, I was assured that according to the charts when she was about 2 , that DD 3 was unlikely to be more than 4'10" when fully grown. Of course I panicked, although I know it's not the no of the world.
Aged 35 she is a slim size 8/10, 5'4" and looks great.
Charts are based on averages, not necessarily predictive and while they may highlight potential problems (overweight, failing to thrive) they are not a crystal ball.
Until the age of 12 I was considered tall for my age. Everyone else carried on growing and I stuck at 5'2" - as Garfield the cat says, not overweight, just undertall.

I believe you're right Norah. My GD is on the 91st centile for both height and weight, and has been since birth, and my DD has been told this means that only 9% of children are taller/heavier than her at a given age.

Firstly a girl grows in height before she starts her period and then she grows another few cms. Many small really small girls shoot up at the age of about 12 or 13 depending on whether they have started their periods early or late -say at 14 or even 15.
Its no good asking doctors as she may be just petite. Stop worrying about it if she is slim and healthy.

Her height is something she has to come to terms with.
I was as the tallest in the class at 11 and found it awful but others grew later and overtook me.
DH is also tall but both our daughters are medium height

That was my sister's experience, MX. She was a small child right up to her last year at primary school. Then, aged eleven, she grew as much in one year as I (two and a half years older) had grown in three. I was nearly fourteen when my periods started; hers started when she was eleven.

She is one of the smallest adults I know.

So, gillybob, some people are just small. If your GD is healthy, why worry?

I think gillybob just wants confirmation that her GD is small for her age to assist in the ongoing school appeal (waiting at bus stops on her own etc.) That's all.

I'm not sure if you would want to do this gilly
but would it worth taking a picture of the sisters standing back to back or side by side to put with your info regarding your GD height and age to illlustrate how small your gdc is for her age.
It maybe helpful to provded visual evidence.
For the powers that be to get there head round

Yes Ana thank you. We need to try and prove her vulnerability. Standing alone at bus stops for long periods alone, every day etc. to be fair even if she was tall for her age I wouldn't like the idea of her standing alone, at the same time, same place, every day.

I have several photographs of the sisters side by side and did consider this cherrytree59 but thinking the way a panel might think (we have had previous experience) they would no doubt say that the younger sister was exceptionally tall for her age. I even (clutching at straws) considered taking her uniform (age 6-7) to the hearing but expect they would say "that could be anyone's uniform" .

Yes thatbags she is small, but perfectly formed. She will no doubt always be very small, but good things come in little bundles.

She has masses of really thick hair. Right down to her bum and sometimes she piles it up on top to gain a bit of height.

gilly I don't want to add to your headaches with the percentile charts but I'm wondering where younger sister is? If she is 'average' it might be worth a chart for both girls and a photo as visual evidence of how tiny big sister is by comparison. Of course if she comes out near the top percentile-wise not such a good idea. I've never understood those charts, you aren't alone, but reading explanations here I think the mist has cleared a bit.

Gilly If you work out from the chart which percentile DGD is on for height, just include that in your evidence.
If you tell them for example that she is on the second percentile, they should understand (you may have to spell it out) that out of 100 girls of her age, 1 would be smaller than her and 98 would be taller.
Though I think telling them and demonstrating her actual height might have more impact.

gillybob printing off the charts, logging her height and weight (there must be a weight chart too) on them and including them with your evidence would be a good idea. But I think that pointing out that the bus links are not good and that she could be consistently late for school may be of more importance.

The charts are often not an indicator of eventual size as MawBroon says.
DD2 was a very tiny child, the smallest although not the youngest in her year at primary school; she is now 5'6" but very petite build. Another female family member was also tiny and is now 5'10".
DGS has the opposite problem because people expect him to behave as an older child would because he has always been on about 110th + percentile for height (he's 8).

gilly when is the appeal appointment?