This document discusses how stables can provide educational opportunities for children's development in several areas. It describes how interacting with animals at stables can support children's learning in science, emotional development, multisensory experiences, physical development, reasoning, and health and safety. Specific examples are given for each of these areas of learning, such as observing animal behaviors to learn about biology, developing empathy through bonding with animals, using different senses to experience farm environments, and considering safety practices when handling animals.

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2. Stables provide safe opportunities for children to make bonds with
animals, understand their habits and learn how to take care of them.
Nutrition
Biology
Geography
Ecology
Ethics
Cultural exchange
Special needs
Physical development
Emotional development
Multisensory experience
Reasoning
Health & Safety
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3. Science
Examples:
• developing children’s
investigative skills
• horses as mammals
• growth, diet,
reproduction, specific
features, adaptation
• diet and faeces
• endemic species –
the Skyrian Horse
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4. Emotional Development
Examples:
• making bonds with
animals
• horses in human’s
life now & then
• developing
sensitivity when taking
care of animals
• species protection
• wild animals vs.
domesticated/farm
animals
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5. Multisensory Experience
Examples:
• direct contact with
animals:
- touching skin, hair, manes,
fur, feathers
- sensing animals’ feelings,
body warmth, heartbeat
- hypo therapy
• animal & farm smells
(odours, food, faeces)
- animal & farm sounds
(neighing, hay rustling,
machinery)
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6. Physical Development
Examples:
• developing gross &
fine motor skills:
- horse riding
- animal feeding
- animal handling
- animal tending
- cleaning animals and
stables
- using garden tools
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7. Reasoning
Examples:
• satisfying children’s
curiosity:
- exploring stables
- interacting with animals
• comparing &
contrasting species,
food, habitats, animal
behaviour
• predicting, observing
changes:
- reproduction
- growth
- aging
- illnesses
• people’s influence on
the animal world
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8. Health & Safety
Examples:
• close contact with
animals:
- cross-infections
- bites, scratches, kicks
- aggressive animals
• machinery and
farming tools
• chemicals
• animal food
• animal faeces
• allergies
• appropriate animal
handling
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