Animals help provide emotional support in educational settings and Students can benefit educationally, personally and emotionally. Benefits of our dogs include:​

• teach empathy, ​
• appropriate interpersonal skills, ​
• help individuals develop social skills​,
• be soothing and the presence of animals can more quickly build rapport between the teacher and pupil,​
• improve individual’s skills to pick up social cues, imperative to human relationships​.
• learn about dog training and animal care

Perhaps and maybe the most important, they are brilliant fun and bring enormous enjoyment to our day.​

Our animals:

Sarah Anderson (Equine Leader) dog William and horses Toby and Lorenzo.

Mrs Drake’s (Head of School) dog Taffy.