Talking about Fire Safety, (when you want a piece of straw to burn - you can be sure that it wont!)
Today we concentrated on Fire Safety! We enacted out what to do if they see a fire on the yard, they play acted about getting the horses out of their stables & releasing the into the paddocks. This was done by some of the members being the horses & the others either discovering the fire & ‘Calling the Fire Brigade’ while the others were putting headcollars onto the ponies & releasing then into the paddocks. There were a lot of shouts of ‘FIRE’ and all had a turn ringing the fire alarm. All of the members enjoyed this section immensely. We also discussed some of the possible causes of fires in stables, from incorrectly stored Hay, Electrical faults & the Muck Heap spontaneously combusting. Unfortunately now that our muck heap is back in the trailer, we were unable to feel how hot it gets inside this time but they were able to see the steam coming off from it which shows just how much heat there was in it.
Jenna took most of the riding lessons this week & concentrated on Balance, Figure work, 20 meter circles Changes of rein, 3 loop serpentines & working without stirrups June taking just one of the afternoon lessons. All lessons also rode around the track which all of the members like immensely. Her most improved rider this week was Hannah B.
In June’s lesson, she concentrated on steering & control and all of her pupils without exception did extremely well in their endeavours.
We also did Field maintenance, grooming, points of tack and I am pleased to say that both Yasmine & Alice have both passed their Points of the Tack Mini Achievement Badge. Well done to you both. We also covered Feeding your Pony, & learned the difference between Pony Nuts & Sugar Beet and how you must never ever feed Sugar Beet until it has been soaked for 24 hours as it will swell up to at least 5 times its original size!
Pony Nuts or Sugar Beet?
We also learned the difference between Hay & Haylage by look, feel & Smell!
We finished the morning session with a spot of grooming,skipping out the stables, cleaning & refilling water buckets & hula-hooping by popular demand.
The afternoon session was finished up with a pony club relay obstacle course, where they had to weave in & out of bending poles, run along stepping stones, throw a ball into a bucket, Hula-hoop and finally jump into a sack & jump back to the bending poles before leaping out of the sack & sprinting back to the rest of their team.
They didn’t want to stop at all & finally, Jenny & June decided to call it a draw as we had both lost track of how many times the teams had gone. They were all worn out at the end of the day, and so were we! I think that everyone will have slept well last night!
Belated Birthday Wishes go to our youngest member Sienna. We hope you had a very happy 5th Birthday on the 12th October! Belated Happy Birthday to you, from all of us here at Pine Ridge Pony Club Centre.
We have the first Sunflower photo in, this is Libby’s sunflower! Please can we have any other pictures of sunflowers as soon as possible – Thank you.
I am sad to say that one of our working pupils Teddy, has decided that he no longer wants to be at the stables. Ted had been at Pine Ridge for many years now, and has finally decided to finish. He has been an extremely popular pupil and has become a very proficient helper who will be very sadly missed. We would like to take this opportunity to wish him all the best in whatever he decides to do next. Good luck Teddy and thank you very much for all of your help & efforts over the years.
Ted through the years!
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