{"id":29373,"date":"2026-02-06T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=29373"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:04:02","slug":"simoa-safe-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2026\/02\/06\/simoa-safe-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMOA safe in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

We loved watching the diggers and the landscaping team create our new garden space. It\u2019s fabulous having more space to play. We have a big sandpit we can go in and play with and we love it. We can\u2019t wait to plant and grow in our wonderful planters see all the beautiful flowers.
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One day we noticed the cold weather had made our garden a bit slippy. We went out to check if our garden was safe to play in.
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\nThis sparked an idea. Let\u2019s make our own risk assessment to incorporate our new garden areas. \u00a0So we went around the garden looking for possible risks.<\/p>\n

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Our children were very safety conscious and could tell me what is safe and what\u2019s not safe. We took photos of our areas and with a little IT help we made our own safety garden risk assessment.
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\nBefore we go out to play our responsible helpers get their clip boards and pens to check our garden. Some of the areas we check are: <\/p>\n

our gates,<\/p>\n

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Our sand,<\/p>\n

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our tyres,<\/p>\n

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our stepping logs,<\/p>\n

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And our doors,<\/p>\n

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Once we give it all a safety tick, it\u2019s time to come out and play. We have also been learning about risk and staying safe on our obstacle course. How to build it safely aswell as staying safe while completing the course.<\/p>\n

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We do love risky play, even more now we know how to do it safely.<\/p>\n

Some times we do forget, so Emma came up with a catchy wee tune to remind us how to stay \u201cSIMOA Safe\u201d.<\/p>\n

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We will be learning this song over the next few weeks. (You might recognise the tune from our Christmas concert. ) Watch this space for a video of our children singing it.<\/p>\n

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We loved watching the diggers and the landscaping team create our new garden space. It\u2019s fabulous having more space to play. We have a big sandpit we can go in and play with and we love it. We can\u2019t wait to plant and grow in our wonderful planters see all the beautiful flowers. One day … Continue reading SIMOA safe in our garden<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36351,"featured_media":29386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447284,5556],"tags":[8797,447418,446588,12008,447417],"class_list":["post-29373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-movement","category-outdoor-learning","tag-garden","tag-new-songs","tag-outdoor-learning","tag-risk-assessment","tag-simoa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2026\/02\/06144716\/B6FFB7CC-A7A1-4E0C-9200-D305480693C2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29394,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373\/revisions\/29394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}