{"id":29582,"date":"2026-05-14T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=29582"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:12:06","slug":"ready-steady-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2026\/05\/14\/ready-steady-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready steady balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The children have been very enthusiastic building their own obstacle course outdoors. The children have been working together as a team discussing where each piece Is going, sharing ideas and problem solving.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children were then eager to trial their course and all took turns using their gross motor skill and balancing skills. The majority of the children\u00a0 <\/span>found this very easy and could quickly move around their course. They were still excited and decided and all followed each other round waiting patiently for others and helping one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the week we decided we\u00a0 <\/span>would add some extra bit to make it more challenging for some of the children. We added\u00a0 <\/span>various .objects etc ladders, elevating the planks so they could balancing walking up and down the ramp. stepping over the briidge. Some of the children were also able to stand on one leg\u00a0 <\/span>and balance while on the raised wooden plank.The children had to concentrate more and take their time to ensure the did not fall off and the crocodiles did not catch them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week some of our children went out into our local environment and met with St Joseph primary school to do litter picking to keep our local environment safe and clean. the children worked in pairs to hunt for rubbish using their litter pickers to pick gather all the rubbish. This was a great opportunity for some our children to be meet others from the school they will attend. We are so proud of the teamwork and our children helping to look after our environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children have been very enthusiastic building their own obstacle course outdoors. The children have been working together as a team discussing where each piece Is going, sharing ideas and problem solving. The children were then eager to trial their course and all took turns using their gross motor skill and balancing skills. The majority … Continue reading Ready steady balance<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447284,447347,5556],"tags":[446570,447424],"class_list":["post-29582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-movement","category-imaginative-thinking","category-outdoor-learning","tag-grossmotorskills","tag-balancing-team-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582","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\/38008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions\/29591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}