Child Safety Week

Posted: 3rd June 2024

It’s Child Safety Week: an annual campaign run by the brilliant Child Accident Prevention Trust, the only UK charity dedicated to preventing accidents in children.

Safety. Sorted!

Us parents and carers can be an anxious bunch, worrying about our little ones getting into trouble as they run, climb, leap, reach and eat their way through life’s daily adventures. It can feel like they’re lurching from one near-disaster to the next: such is the nature of childhood. We all want our little ones to have the freedom to grow and learn, but navigating risk is a tough one, and the stakes are high. However families should feel confident that, with one small change, they can stop a serious accident. And be clear what they need to do to keep their children safe.

That’s why, for Child Safety Week 2024, the theme is Safety. Sorted!

Building confidence

Child Safety Week is not about scaremongery. The campaign seeks to build confidence and skills in managing real, genuine risks to children’s safety, and reminding us of the simple changes we can make to stop serious – often avoidable – accidents. Accidents often happen when there’s a lot going on, so accident prevention needs to be simple. CAPT have produced an excellent guide for parents and carers outlining simple changes to stop the scariest accidents.

CAPT helps families and carers better understand the risks at each stage of a child’s development and make sense of the often-baffling array of advice on offer. All in the name of happier, heathier families.

Gymboree Play & Music: the safest place to play

Your little one’s safety is our number one priority at Gymboree Play & Music. We pride ourselves on being the safest place to play.

We have a policy and clear protocol for just about every eventuality, so you really are in safe hands. What’s more, we firmly believe it’s never too early to start talking to little ones about staying safe.

Take, for example, our Explorers Class for 22-28 month olds. This class is all about bringing the play floor to life: trips to the shops, baking cakes, looking for bugs and going to a party. We transform the playscape into reimagined real world activities.

Over the years, we’ve found this to be a great way of slowing introducing little ones to the concept of risk. Ovens can be hot, roads can be busy, not everything that looks bright and yummy is in fact food.

If you haven’t checked out a Gymboree Play & Music class yet, do get in touch. Guiding little ones through life’s obstacles can feel a bit daunting and we’d love to give you a helping hand.

child development, wellbeing

Reviews

Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!

Natalia, Hampstead

Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.

Sheena, Sevenoaks

I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)

Pippa, Tunbridge Wells