When I was a school teacher, it was drummed into us to always remember that no two students learn exactly the same way. Some would be primarily auditory learners, some visual, some kinaesthetic, and so on. Planning lessons to suit a range of students’ learning styles is always in the back of a teacher’s mind. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘parelli’
28 Jan
Shona and Joleena Find a Forever Home
Well, this is big news. Shona and Joleena are our longest-term residents, having been with us for two years, as our first rescues after the initial dogger yard rescue of four horses that began this charity. We rescued them from a slaughterhouse holding yard, along with their two-month-old colts at their side. They had come from [...]
24 Jan
Oscar Has Been Adopted!
Rescue pony, Oscar, has been adopted into his forever home! Oscar came to us in September 2011 as a two-year-old stallion with extreme stallion behaviour. His people couldn’t keep him because they lacked the facilities to keep him safely and happily and couldn’t find him a new home because of his stallion behaviour. Obviously, the [...]
10 Jan
Update on Grace
Beautiful Grace is doing much better after a lengthy abscess draining process. She was lame throughout, but not too seriously, and now she’s healing she is up for more activity, enjoying walks out and about with her foster dad, Adam, and some Parelli play. She’s still in really good condition and in really good spirits. [...]
7 Nov
Update on Oscar
Oscar’s been having a very busy time since he arrived. He has been gelded, vaccinated, microchipped, had baby teeth and wolf teeth extracted, been wormed and had his feet done twice. He’s also been participating in Parelli games and socialisation activities, and happily goes for walks on lead out in the street. Oscar is proving to be a [...]
2 Nov
October Horse of the Month: Grace
Grace is a 7-year-old Thoroughbred mare, ex racehorse. She has recently spent a month with Parelli professionals, Lillan Roquet and Kerryn Armstrong from Intuitive Connection, to assist us to better understand Grace and where her strengths lie. Grace is a very, very clever horse–Kerryn said she’s one of the cleverest she’s worked with in years, which is saying a [...]
22 Sep
Update on Grace
(Jo S says): I’ve been to visit Grace at training camp She is doing really, really well! I’m very happy with her progress. She is a very clever horse (Kerryn says she’s one of the smartest she’s worked with, which is saying a lot) so is easily bored and she is just thriving on the [...]
25 Aug
Meet Grace’s Big-Hearted Angels
Meet Colin and Deb. These lovely Angels have been sponsoring Grace through her rehabilitation since May. And their generosity couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. For the last four months, Grace has been going through a difficult time. After some fantastic progress, she was looking great and feeling great and everything was looking [...]
30 Jul
Intuitive Connection Building Relationships
For several months now, Lillan Roquet and Kerryn Armstrong from Intuitive Connection have been working with two of our foster horses, Shona and Joleena. With a very troubled past, Shona and Joleena have shown us exactly what the life of a broodmare can entail, and it’s often not good. (We frequently see the end result of poor breeding [...]
