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Special Educational Needs - Autism Horse Experience Day

Life Skills
When

Wed, 9 Apr 2025, 10:00 - 15:00

Years From
12   To   16
Location

Greengates Stables

Mays Lane

Barnet

London
EN5 2AQ

Face to Face

Overview

This activity booking is specifically for children with Autism and who are eligible for BACE Holidays

BACE Autism Horse Experience Day is a fun and inclusive holiday day for young people aged 12-16  that have Autism but are able to manage without additional support and will be able to access the day's tasks unaccompanied and feel able to manage in a group with peers without individual support.

Spend the day learning how to care for and train horses and learning how a horse’s mind works. Through working with the horses the young people will improve in confidence, communication skills and teamwork skills.

Join the Strength & Learning Through Horses team to spend a day learning to train horses. Our staff team of horse behaviourists will teach you how a horse thinks, what worries him and what motivates him. You'll use this knowledge to building a relationship of trust with them and train them to undertake a number of fun activities. Activities include:

  • Putting on head collars and basic horse handling skills
  • Grooming the horses
  • Ground based horse training activities
  • A competitive obstacle course to put your horse training skills to the test
  • The day will be fun and light hearted and is suitable for young people with no horse experience as well as the more experience horse people, there's something to learn for everyone.

 

All the work is from the ground, not ridden.

Facilitator
Strength and Learning Through Horses

Strength and Learning Through Horses is a Charity Partnership based at specialist stables in North London which exclusively serves vulnerable or disadvantaged young people and adults.

Strength in Horses offers Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to vulnerable children and adults with significant mental health needs under the care of qualified Clinical Psychologists and trained horse professionals.

Learning Through Horses offers an alternative education programme working with horses to provide opportunities for disengaged, vulnerable young people and adults to develop vital skills required to further their employment.

http://www.strengthandlearningthroughhorses.org/

  • Please explain in detail why your child would benefit from this session
  • Child must have been diagnosed as being on the Austistic Spectrum with an EHCP
  • Child must be able to manage without additional support
  • Child must be eligible for benefit-related free school meals
  • Child must provide a 16-digit e-voucher code
  • Consent Form to be completed piror to activity (Sent via email or can be completed on the day)
For this activity, bookings will be provisional. You will be notified via email once bookings are approved.
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