Heroes Blog

Hi Everyone

 

Just a quick update on what has being happening at Heroes over the last few weeks.

 

Heroes Flexi School Started at the beginning on January 2010 and is very successfully.  At the moment we only run on a Tuesday from 10.30 - 4.00 but have 15 young people attending from the ages of 9 years - 13 years, so far we have run workshops on small animal care, hiphop street dance, art and history. We are looking at starting up a second day shortly.

 

Wednesday is still proving very popular for the Big home Ed meet, we have around 19 familes who attend on a regular basis.  Lots of parents have got together and organise workshops and even workshops for parents have been going on, e.g. singing, dancing, its a fun day and we are looking forward to meeting with more people.  It a day where parents can get together and have fun as well and the youngsters, where they can chat together and talk about interests and arrange activities together.

 

Thursdays we run a whole day based on animal care programme and work presently with a small group of teenager boys. This also has proved very popular and we are looking at extending this and being able to offer an OCN Accredation in working with small animals.

 

Our new venue is still very much going ahead and after we've got through all the red tape with the council it will be full steam ahead. David Harris, the horse whisperer and his wife Sharon Harris will be sharing the premises with us, plus we are hoping to get ponies, donkeys and more animals.  We were hoping to be in there for April but now I think we are realistically looking at May/June, but lets keep our fingers crossed. 

 

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Hi everyone

 

Well it looks like its all going ahead.  Our new venue hopefully will be ready to move in around March/April 2010.

 

This is not the original venue we first found, but another venue in Hurst which is just outside of Twyford.  It is being purpose built for what we want and it is so so exciting.

 

We will have horses and a very large horse arena, ponies, donkeys and animals on site, outside areas to play, purpose build classrooms, very large kitchen and canteen area, there is so much room. We have lots and lots of plans we want to build yurts, plant trees and put a circular fire area to sit around (can't remember what its called) but somewhere we we can communicate and sing and just enjoy. We are hoping to have Dave and Sharon Harris from Berkshire on board doing their horse leadership courses and horse whispering and attract lots of other like minded people.

 

Please let us know you would like to see and if you would like to get involved with this project please let us know.  We also need help with fund raising and need ideas so we can keep this affordable to all.

 

Look forward to hearing from you all

 

Dawn and Laurie

 

Heroes Flexi School will be up and running in November.  This unique education centre, the first in the UK, will be open five days a week. The centre is suitable for children from the ages of 8 years upwards  A full time- table will be running each day and children can choose which sessions they want to join in with. 

 

We will be offering a huge variety of workshops including animal care, history, sciences, environmental studies, sports, art. We will be making our films and documentries and designing our own cook book

 

 We will also be working off site at an organic farm, an environmental centre, and taking trips out to theatres and events.

 

The cost will be £25.00 per day per child.

 

Heroes new venue, until we purchase our own, will be Scouts HQ in Loddon Valley Road, Twyford.

 

A  lovely brand new two storey building with underfloor heating, large professional kitchen and large hall and two smaller rooms.

 

Outside space is large playing fields with huge recreation, skate park, basket ball pitch, childrens play area. Outdoor pool nearby open May - September.

 

We are neighbours with Twyford Youth Centre and will hopefully get involved in some projects with them, there is also Yoga, Line dancing, Keepfit, and a mother and toddlers group running there weekly for parents who might want to get involved in something for themselves.

 

We will be running five days a week from November 2009

 

It is very exciting new venture and I look forward to meeting with you all 

 

 

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Dawn Dingwall