Kingsleighs Equine Education Centre - Specialist Post-16 Equine College

Kingsleighs equine education centre….

Do you know who we are and what we do?

We are a Specialist Equine College for Post 16 education.

Our students follow bespoke education plans individually formulated to ensure each young person achieves their full potential. We undertake all learning within small or one to one group settings, with all students getting the individualised attention that they require to flourish.

With training and qualifications for the equine industry alongside English, maths and life skills, we aim to equip our student to attain employment within the equine industry.

Within each students individual plan we can also offer and facilitate equine therapeutic intervention, coaching and mentoring. This is undertaken within our tried and effective system whilst working within a nationally recognised framework.

We don’t just have horses and ponies, we also have a team of therapy dogs on site alongside mini donkeys and mules, chickens and our two quite naughty resident sheep!

Do you have a young person who has an EHCP and wishes to pursue training and qualifications within the equine industry?

Does your young person need a small and individualised approach to their learning?

Does your young person need that extra support with safe friendships and social cue?

We have two spaces available for the 2024/25 academic year and invite applications for these spaces.

In the first instance please with PM the page or, email

[email protected]

We look forward to speaking with and finding out how we can help your young person find and reach their full potential

lessons - £25 for an hours lesson, please message the WRS page for further details……

WRS excellent partnership with Kingsleighs equine Education Centre….

Did you know that if your child is registered on the HAF website and is 8yrs of over, you can ask for a discount lesson code to book the monthly blocked booked lessons?

The lessons are normally £40 but with the discount, they are £25 each. (This has recently gone up from £20)

This means your child can have hour lessons for £25 each. This is in partnership with the HAF programme and funded by WRS.

Please message to get your block booked lesson code.

A picture of Kingsleigh enjoying semi retirement in the field!

WRS exciting new initiative……

WRS exciting new initiative….

We are going to start to do the ABRS rosettes and certificate awards the first Saturday of every month.

For lesson riders, the children can stay an extra hour on top of their lesson and learn lots of new things.

For those children staying all day, we will do it during learning zone.

£5 extra for all day children
£10 extra for lesson only children

Please ask for further details or to book your child in.

Summer HAF Programme, we
Have availability on our programme over the next three weeks
Please head to the HAF website to book your chidren in.

We now have lots of extra pony days added this summer

25th July
30th July
2nd August
7th August
9th August
13th August
15th August

10am - 3.30pm £65 per child
Please book via our website
www.Worcesterridingschool.com

KEEC holiday HAF government funded holiday activity programme.

As per our booking conditions both days have to be booked separately on the two day programme.

All those children with SEND, whether diagnosed or under assessment and however small the need is, parents/careers HAVE had to of made contact with the centre in order for your booking to be confirmed - you will of been given a text message to send through to the centre to confirm you have made contact.

Both of the above are terms and conditions of booking onto the programme.

Today we are cleaning up the booking system and any bookings not adhereing to the above, will be cancelled today.

Cherokee asks nicely for you to please read the booking conditions, otherwise it makes extra work for the girls in the office.

KEEC very exciting news…

We will be running the summer holiday government funded HAF programme again the summer.

We have two day linked programmes running over the holidays - both days must be booked on to ensure your child gets to ride.

This programme is for those children getting free school meals, as per the funding guidelines.

We can take those children with SEND however, you must call the centre during our office hours 10.30 - 4pm before confirmation of your booking as we need to talk through any triggers and safeguarding protocols in order to confirm we can safely meet the needs of your child.

We look forward to welcoming back those children that have been before and meeting lots of new children this summer holidays.

Details of how to book will be posted up this week on our social media platforms

Parents of all the young people that we are trying to help that keep getting blocked by Worcestershire County council, here is your chance to have your say to those that really can do something about it.

We have received notice that Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be visiting Worcestershire later this month to inspect our arrangements for children with special education needs and disabilities (SEND).

The inspectors want to hear from children and young people, parents and carers, and practitioners about the help and support that children and young people with SEND get.

The surveys are accessible via the following link and will close at 9am on Tuesday 16 April 2024.

https://ofsted.smartsurvey.co.uk/p/AreaSend/10310390

HAF Easter programme….

We are now busy with our Easter HAF government programme.

We have availability on our sessions next week.

Our two day equine therapeutic sessions are available to book on line via the HAF booking system. Both days must be booked otherwise your one day booking will be cancelled.

We are able to take those children with SEND however, you must call us beforehand so as to ensure we can meet need. Failure to call us will result in your booking being cancelled on the system.

Kingsleighs are running the Easter HAF programme, head to the booking site for further details…

Our Ready Steady Worcestershire HAF programme has hundreds of free places for eligible children to attend activities throughout the Easter holidays.

All activity clubs are inclusive of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and there are also some specialist SEND clubs run by providers with specialist facilities, training or adapted activities.

Parents, guardians and carers are invited to contact providers directly to discuss suitability of clubs.

Find out more 🔗 https://bit.ly/48Vo7pT

KEEC amazing HAF Easter Activities….

We have some great news to tell you, we will once again be running the fully government funded holiday activities with food programme during the Easter school holidays.

Full details will be made available in the next couple of days, be sure to check back to find out how to hook your child’s space.

We are all looking forward to welcoming the children to the yard to enjoy lots of Eater fun….

WRS international woman’s day…

Those that have visited or have anything to do with WRS will not need telling that we do not need a day to celebrate the ladies on the yard.

We make sure and support those at WRS to own every day. To make every day a day to learn and grow. A day that if mistakes are made, we pick ourselves up and learn from them.

We inspire those ladies to go and get exactly what they want, to reach for their goals and aspirations.

We give those ladies the tools to believe in themselves and that anything is possible, they are only limited my their own imagination.

We make them believe that they will get it in the end…if they don’t, then it’s not the end….

Every day is our day at WRS…

Every little helps…….

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KEEC update…..HAF booking now open…..

Go….go…..go…

The booking site is now live for the Christmas holiday activities with food programme.

This is a fully funded programme for this children in reciept of Free School Meals. The children get to come to the centre and spend time with the horses and ponies, learning all about how to look after them, making new friendships, working in a team, horse riding with therapeutic sessions too!

We will happily have those children with additional needs and SEND, however we do require you to contact the office to discuss this, this is to ensure safeguarding protocols are met. If no contact is made, unfortunately you’re booking will not be confirmed.

Booking is via the Worcestershire HAF site, we are already fully booked for the first week.

*conditions as per previous programmes, it’s important to us that we fill all the spaces, if you fail to turn up to activities that have been booked, this will result in you not being able to book on to any future programmes. By not turning up uou take a funded place away from another child.

HAF very important update…

It clearly states on the booking form to contact the centre to discuss needs that were disclosed on the booking form.

We ask this for many reasons, it is to keep your child safe whilst with us, to keep the staff, other children and the animals safe too.

This programme is an opportunity to offer places for those with additional support needs however, in order to do this, we need time to arrange and implement staffing, update staff with needs and implement implement training and health and safety protocols to ensure the safest environment that we can.

We are disappointed to see that we have a number of young people booked on Thursday that we have not spoken to ascertain need.

Please if you have answered any of the questions other than no, and you have not spoken to the office, please call Wednesday 2 - 4pm. We are technically not open tomorrow and off site with external clients and will be working with other young people out of these times.

Failure to make contact to discuss your young person, will result in your booking and subsequent bookings being cancelled.

Please call 07889569009 during the time period in the post.

Just a kind reminder for all those young people on the HAF programme at the yard this week - please leave your mobile phones at home.

It’s very important to us due to safeguarding that no mobile phone is brought on site by the young people, should this protocol be broken, we will ask that the young person is collected from the yard.

Kingsleighs housekeeping update…

Just a reminder of our zero tolerance of mobile phones on the yard.

We kindly ask due to safeguarding protocols that ALL mobile phones are left at home. We do not allow mobile phones on our yard, this is to keep everyone safe.

The young people can ask any of the management team if they wish to contact home and parents, can of course, contact us at any point during the time their young people are with us.

We hope you understand this is to keep your young person safe.

Millie says please leave your phone at home…

HAF VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE….
Please make contact to discuss your young persons needs if you have put they have an EHCP, extra support or any extra needs.

We welcome bookings for young People with SEND, after all we are a therapeutic education provider.

As a booking term and condition, it clearly states that any booking with an EHCP, extra support needed or, SEND tick box, we ask the booking contact to contact the number on the booking form.

As part of our safeguarding protocols, We need to ensure that we can meet any needs the young person may have. This is why the contact is so very important.

We need you to make contact with the kingsleighs office by 5pm today , as per our terms of booking if no contact is made the booking will be cancelled.

Please call during our working hours of 10.30 - 5pm on 07889569009

Kingsleighs doing it the right way…

No chocolate…no sweets and no processed food, just good old fashioned proper healthy stuff for the young people that are on the HAF scheme with us!!

Bowls of fruit, healthy biscuits, yoghurt, cheese and veg and pasta today.

What’s on the menu tomorrow…???

Kingsleighs housekeeping update…

Just a reminder of our zero tolerance of mobile phones on the yard.

We kindly ask due to safeguarding protocols that ALL mobile phones are left at home. We do not allow mobile phones on our yard, this is to keep everyone safe.

The young people can ask any of the management team if they wish to contact home and parents, can of course, contact us at any point during the time their young people are with us.

We hope you understand this is to keep your young person safe.

Millie says please leave your phone at home…

WRS 50% discounted lessons….

As part of our commitment to the Governments HAF scheme and in partnership funding with Worcester Riding School and Pony Club centre we have a very exciting new programme now available.

A commitment was made to facilitate riding lessons and pony club for those children in less fortunate situations, full details on eligibility below.

Families can apply for a code to give 50% off the child’s drop in lesson or the child’s lane hack, each month a new code will be issued.

There is also a 50% discount available if the children wish to book in to stay all day for pony club - limited to the first 5 children to book online.

Bookings are online only and are on a first come basis, 10 sessions available weekly, once they are booked up they are gone!

This makes the 45 minute lesson now only £20.

Eligibility criteria
Any child over 6 in receipt of free school meals
Families in receipt of means tested benefits.

Please message to confirm status and to be issued with your code

We look forward to welcoming lots of new riders to the yard

Ready steady HAF…!!!!!

The Aga is on can mean one thing…..HAF summer 2023 has started!!!

Cooking above hot lunch for all the young people on Todays HAF programme, I wonder whats on the menu today…???

Kingsleighs specialist Equine College…….

So what are we?

We are a specialist equine college offering equine and life skills based training and qualifications.
Each student will have a bespoke curriculum and education pathway individual to their needs and aspirations. Each education package is planned, delivered and reviewed by teachers with QTS.
We are a Social, emotional and mental health training centre and this support is offered alongside the curriculum based studies and training. This is through equine therapeutic intervention and mentoring. This is delivered by a senior member of the AHCP.

Where are we?

We are based on the Worcestershire and Gloucestershire borders.

Who are we for?

We offering local authority and privately funded places for those young people 16-25yrs with an EHCP.

How to contact us to find out more

Please send an email to
[email protected]

Government UKPRN register of learning providers registration number 10092558

HAF VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE….

The booking site is getting incredibly busy with bookings for our Summer HAF programme.

We welcome bookings for young People with SEND, after all we are a therapeutic education provider.

As a booking term and condition, it clearly states that any booking with an EHCP, extra support needed or, SEND tick box, we ask the booking contact to contact the number on the booking form.

As part of our safeguarding protocols, We need to ensure that we can meet any needs the young person may have. This is why the contact is so very important.

We need you to make contact with the kingsleighs office by Tuesday 19th, as per our terms of booking if no contact is made the booking will be cancelled.

Please call during our working hours of 10.30 - 3.30 on 07889569009

We still have spaces on our summer HAF programme, please see the Worcestershire HAF website for details how to book.

Go go go…..ALL SESSIONS ARE NOW ON THE HAF Worcestershire BOOKING SITE….

Be quick to get your child booked on, we already have over 35% booked up in two days.

Preference will be given to those children who are FSM

Kingsleighs Summer HAF school
Holiday programme…

⭐️⭐️We have funding for our summer holiday programme⭐️⭐️

For children 8yrs to 15 in receipt of free school meals - we also have a number of SEND places.

https://www.haf-it.co.uk/

Follow that link to sign up and book