Since our first block of Enjoy-a-ball sessions were a big hit with the Rocking Horse Toddlers, Claire is back with more fun and games for another block! Enjoy-a-ball aims to promote a healthy and active lifestyle helping to develop the children’s gross and fine motor […]
Our Early years room recently enjoyed a trip to Gorgie city farm and Princes street gardens. The children seen lots of different animals and will learn the life cycle of some of these (Health & Wellbeing). The children were excited to see some baby animals, a Lamb and piglets amongst other animals. Afterwards we had […]
What is art?… well as I type this I imagine your fridges, walls and possibly even office space adorned with your little ‘Monet’s’ masterpieces which I’m sure are all very beautiful and come with their own host of stories. This week we thought we would take that creativity outdoors and create some transient art! What is transient art though I hear you ask. ‘Transient’ in it’s simplest from is defined as ‘not lasting’ and that is exactly what makes this kind of art so special!
And so… off we went to our garden to collect some bits and bobs that we thought would create a beautiful picture. (petals and leaves were a hit with the girls, stones and grass for the boys) we drew a border on the ground and the children set to work making some fantastic pieces within them. The creativity was flowing for the duration of this activity as was communication as the children not only created their own pieces but worked together sharing opinions and ideas too.
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A morning well spent if you ask me!
We would like to thank Progressive sports for their gift of sports balls after our second block of progressive sport sessions ended this week. The children have had a fantastic 10 weeks and we are in talks with another block of sessions to begin to progress the children’s physical and social skills, we will keep parents updated […]
A Huge Well Done to Viv and Jennifer in completing their skydive on Sunday 26th April, we are all so proud. In total we raised £1690.37, with sponsorship of the children’s fancy dress walks, our bake sale and Viv and Jennifer’s gift aid pages for our chosen charity of The Sick Kids Friends Foundation. We […]
Beanies Fundraising The Beanies at Rocking Horse took to the High Street and Portobello Promenade for our Sponsored Walk for The Sick Kids Friends Foundation. We all either wore our fancy dress, pyjamas or had crazy hair 🙂 The final total we have raised hasn’t been counted yet, but we will be sure to let […]
The Under 2’s from Seabeach were lucky enough to be invited along for a preview of Star Catchers ‘Hup’. “A quirky quartet of playful musicians” A member of staff from Rocking Horse brought a couple of babies and joined us on our outing. We all hopped on a bus which was of course extremely […]
All rooms at Rocking Horse were out on force today around the local area and down to Portobello beach again dressed up as part of our fundraising for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. Our bake sale is still in full flow in the Beanie room, feel free to pop in for a cake when you […]
The Preschool and Toddler children participated in a sponsored walk today as part of our fundraising for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. We all got dressed up in our fancy dress costumes or pyjamas with our faces painted and took a walk down to Portobello and along the beach! Thank you to everyone who took part […]
This afternoon, we had a new member join us in the preschool room. Turbo the Giant Land Snail arrived and we were all very excited. The children have been preparing all week for Turbo arriving. We even named him before he arrived!