Recent content by Rebeccak

Hi all, I have my BHS stage 2 teach exam looming ever closer however I am struggling with writing up the risk assessments. How am I to write a risk assessment based on the assumption that I haven't been to the exam centre before? If anyone has recently done their exam and could offer me some...

Hi all, I've been wondering if there's such thing as short intensive courses for things such as farriery, saddlery etc. Obviously these things take years of training to become an actual qualified professional but are there any courses/clinics that are rather informitive and give you some basic...

So obviously there's going to be a vast difference between comp level and RS level. But what would your personal definition be for a rider that just owns their own horse who doesn't compete nor attend typical RS lessons (very odd question to ask I know, I'm not very good at explaining what I'm...

Everyone seems to have a different definition of what a Beginner, Novice, Intermediate and Advanced rider is. What would you say each rider's capability would be? I'm hoping I can figure out some form of general consensus

I've had this discussion with quite a few people, so I thought I'd ask you folk what you think. What experience/riding level do you think someone should have/be before they are able to school a green horse well?

Should be fine, but depends if the new coat growing in is still winter hair or summer, if she's turned out a lot, how much work she's doing etc.

I've been looking through the forum but all the UKCC/BHS posts seem outdated. I have a few questions as I'm trying to decide on which one I should follow. I want to become an instructor (most likely freelance) but currently teach up to Novice riders at an ABRS approved yard. 1) To complete the...