26th February 2011

Today we had a visit from NSARDA Cantech (The National Search & Rescue Dog Association) who are Lowland Search & Rescue. Stuart Kenny talked about how they operate, also how they train their dogs. After he finished talking to the members & their families aboiut the operational side of his Voluntary Job, he then brought out his lovely dog Sky.

Sky is a German Hovawart and is not yet fully trained in search & rescue.

After putting out some pop-up tents in the Sand Arena, Stuart asked small goups of children to hide in them so that he could demonstrate how Sky would find them. Once she had located the 'missing children', she would then run back to her handler and bark to get his attention, then he would send her back and follow, thus affecting a rescue.

We would like to say a very big thank you to Stuart & Sky for coming to visit us & giving such a wonderfully informative talk & Demonstration in what can only be described as a torrential downpour of both rain & Hailstones. Despite this the children enjoyed the experience and we hope to have a return of NSARDA later in the year.

If you would like to know more about the work of NSARDA Cantech, please access their webpages at http://www.cantech.org.uk/

Brian & His knots

Here we have Brian demonstraing one of the knots that the children tried out!
They all did really well and some even managed the really complicated knots.
Well done everybody

Knots with Brian

Here we have Amy with her Reef Knot & Jemima tying her Bowline Knot!

19th February - Knots with Brian

On Saturday 19th February, we had a real treat. An ex Tugboat Captain, Brian Biggs came to give a talk on the different trpes of rope and show the children how to do some basic knots.

And the winning picture from Eryn - a Blanket Spot Appaloosa how wonderful they all are. Very well done!

Alice's 2nd place Dapple Grey, What a challenge, well done!

3rd place with the Steel Grey, another that could give problems very well done Jemima

4th Place picture by Robyn, Very well done as this is a difficult colour to get!

12th February

On February 12th 2011, the members learned about the different colours of horses. At the end of the lecture, the children all drew a Horse Colour out of the bag, and had to colour in an outline of a horse correctly.
Finally, Jenny judged the finished colourings.

Special congratulations go to the top 4
The results are as follows:
4th Place was Robyn with the Dun
3rd was Jemima with the Steel Grey
2nd was Alice with the Dapple Grey
and the winner was Eryn with the Blanket Spot Appaloosa

Congratulations! to all the members for such wonderful colourings.