GCSE horse riding? anyone done it?

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Hello again ;)
so im talking PE and im going to do horse riding as one of my sports
what do we have to do?? my teacher seems to keep forgetting to tell me
this is what iv heard :

jump a 3ft course
be able to ride in double reins


thanks guys x
 
I wish they had done this when i was at school. I would have turned up abit more often then ;) :p :D :D :D

Sorry i can't help you. I have no idea. :confused:
 
My friends daughter just had to do it for her GCSE and she had to ride in 3 different environments. She did a show jumping course but there was no height min or max in the jumping paddock, she did a working hunter test in the outdoor school and a controlled canter in the field.
You have to show a mount and dismount. You have to show you can tack up and remove tack.
Has to be filmed and put on a disk.
She also had a written test which was quite basic really and involved naming parts of the horse, parts of tack, horse welfare and stable management.
You could Google it and there is probably info on the net.
 
yeh i am doing p.e gcse and considering horse riding.. rumours i have heard is:
you pick an area you like such as eventing, dressage sj etc etc.
and if you are sj:
ride and complete a 3ft course
and show some evidence of dressage.
but then again there is another higher level where you :
jump a course of 4ft and show all lateral work.

with eventing you do the above but with added xc jumps :)

also which ever level you do you get filmed tacking up, mounting and schooling.
just random stuff but you should get a criteria once, your up and going.
 
they will give u a list. you have to show you can walk trot and canter on each rein and halt, jump a course at the height you are comfortable with and mount and dismount. i filmed someone for the gcse and that what i can remember her doing.
 
I don't know of anyone who has done GCSE PE with riding at our school, but I was asked by the PE dept. to look at DVD's of a student and point him in the direction of what he should be looking at...

The higher level of the marks at A level would be placed against students such as county golf players....county cricket players.....you get the idea, so someone riding would have to be showing some pretty impressive stuff.

The first DVD was no good at all, trying to explain gently to the student that she was only showing 'sound' ability was a little difficult, but eventually she came back with a new DVD, obviously a much better horse....to show the movements required. I would guess that GCSE would run along the same lines.

Not trying to put you off, but just want to put into perspective that the standard does have to be pretty high, and we have some students who have had to change their main sport in A level to push themselves up a grade because they honestly thought that riding would be an easy way of getting round it....not so! The moderators are tough cookies....but i'm sure if you work hard at your dressage and jumping, you'll come through it fine.....it was jumping and dressage the student in A level had to do, and show competence in various movements....
 
I did riding as part of my GCSE pe :) I had someone film my riding and we had to walk,trot,canter on both reins. Walk & trot without stirrups, turn on the forehand, jump a course of small fences :) For the handling part we did open & shut a gate, leading, mount & dismount :)
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
Hello again ;)
so im talking PE and im going to do horse riding as one of my sports
what do we have to do?? my teacher seems to keep forgetting to tell me
this is what iv heard :

jump a 3ft course
be able to ride in double reins


thanks guys x
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I did it and it is honestly the easiest thing to get 10/10 in.... PM me your email as i can email yu the specification etc. of what you need to do/how you get the marks etc...

What i had to do:
canter a figure of 8,
medium trot
shoulder in
leg yield

the above was just for the amusement of my teacher! lol
and literally i jumped a Xpole and an upright as i showed her a video of me competing at NC/intermediate PC eventing...

but yer pm me your email and ill email you the spec. as that has all the detailed stuff...
 
From what I gathered different examination boards require different things.

I have assessed someone for their exam and this was the list of things they had to do

Mount/dismount
walk
trot
canter
jump a course

plan a course of jumps and ride around it

Seriously that's all it said. Nothing about how well they had to w t c or how high they had to jump. Nothing. I had to score each part out of 10!! Such a joke!
 
I have assessed several of the riding assessments and heard about lots of others. You are given a sheet showing what you have to do to get the marks ranging from 1 to 10. For 1-2 its basic ability on the flat to walk trot and canter and not fall off! level 10 is ride about 1m track showjumps or show lateral movements in dressage, shoulder in etc and ride in a double bridle. However if you have videos of yourself competing you can use this as evidence so going round a decent xc course will obviously show off your skills. Is seems to vary from school to school and county to county which I think it makes it unfair. It seems to be to a certain extent down to the assessor and teacher to give the mark - not helpful if the teacher knows nothing about riding and wants to mark higher than you do! Supposedly the video is sent to the BHS for them to mark but I have done two that were not videoed so dont quite know what happens there!
 
yep i done it this year!

you get a whloe long list of what u have to do some of the things i done was jump a course show the transitions on both diaganals open and close farm gates, show that i had the right road sence ,ride thought open feilds showing full control and ride in a group etc. find out what exam board you are on if you are on the ocr exam bord you can download the list from there website and there mark sceme!

At our school we had to film it so it could be sent off to be moderated i found some good vidos on you tube so i could see what others had put in and what grade they got from there.

hope this helps bex :) :)
 
stanNhazel said:
I have assessed several of the riding assessments and heard about lots of others. You are given a sheet showing what you have to do to get the marks ranging from 1 to 10. For 1-2 its basic ability on the flat to walk trot and canter and not fall off! level 10 is ride about 1m track showjumps or show lateral movements in dressage, shoulder in etc and ride in a double bridle. However if you have videos of yourself competing you can use this as evidence so going round a decent xc course will obviously show off your skills. Is seems to vary from school to school and county to county which I think it makes it unfair. It seems to be to a certain extent down to the assessor and teacher to give the mark - not helpful if the teacher knows nothing about riding and wants to mark higher than you do! Supposedly the video is sent to the BHS for them to mark but I have done two that were not videoed so dont quite know what happens there!
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I wasn't given any idea of how to mark it nor was it videoed.

Ridiculous. An A in what I marked and an A in Physics is hardly comparable! (sorry, snob side of me coming out)
 
Yep, been there! I was told I would have to be videoed riding to start with but then my PE teacher just asked for my instructor's number so he could phone for a reference - don't know what she said to him but it was the easiest A* I ever got! This also happened to a friend of mine (from the same school but different instructor). My exam board was AQA and I looked at the specification for GCSE riding at the time and it was just stuff like be able to get on a horse, turn a corner etc, really really basic stuff. I don't know if it is the same now though as this was a few years ago now, spec may have changed...
When my cousin did his, he had to be videoed mounting, dismounting etc.
 
Hi
I work in the PE dept at a secondary school and a few of our pupils have chosen riding as one of the sports to be moderated on. Our exam board is AQA, they have required us to submit video evidence of the pupil being able to groom, tack up, warm up the horse, build a course of show jumps about 2'9", jump the course, cool down, then answer a selection of questions about their riding ( what could of gone better, how they could improve approach to fences etc..). It cannot be done on their own horse, and the questions are asked by a qualified BSHAI who also assesses the pupils riding. We use the local riding school ( handy as I used to teach the YO !!!).
When we looked at the spec SJ was the easiest to get high marks in as dressage wanted lateral movements and cross country was BE100 standard.
However if you have got existing footage of you competing at county shows or ODE or SJ at a decent level and it has been taken while you are in yr10 or yr11 then that can also be submitted. I discovered this last bit when chatting to my head of dept as my own daughter is in yr10 and has opted to be moderated on her riding.
Hope this is of some use.
 
For my video footage my flatwork consisted of:
- medium trot/canter
- leg yield
- simple changes
- walk to canter/canter to walk
- rein back
- shoulder in

Doesn't sound much but was performed in a consitent outline with a flowing rhythmn (sp?)

And for my jumping:
- Course of 3'3/3'6 fences with some wide spreads, combinations, uprights, skinnies etc
- Landing on the correct lead (sounds simple enough but surprising the amount of people that don't do it!)
- Showing balance and knowledge of all the phases of jumping

I then talked it through with my PE teacher, what I thought was good, what I though could be improved then talked through some BE rules, training programme etc.
I got 10/10 for this.
 
I cant believe these count as qualifications...this is not a valid GCSE!

Saying that, play the system and good luck! xxx
 
Irrelevant though, "being good at sport" doesnt count as an academic qualification. This isnt a slight on those doing it, I also feel this way about music GCSE and I would have done it if my timetable hadn't clashed!

I just feel that academic quals should be like maths, english, latin, science.

*prepares to be jumped on*
 
I did it about 7 years ago and got a 10 and 2 of my sisters did it and both got 10s. The examiner actually came and told me how impressed they were with the quality of my video. I was given a sheet from my PE teacher with a break down of what I needed to do for the different mark bands. In my video I started off fetching my pony out of the stable, tacking her up, mounting etc. I was then videoed warming her in, riding through a dressage I made up with leg yeild, turn on the forehand etc in it. I included a video of me jumping a 3ft/ 3ft3 course with a variety of fences. In between each section I was interviewed by my instructor and answered questions on what I was doing and why and how I would improve it. Then I did a dressage test with no stirups and just used stills from XC because I didn't have a video. Overal my video was about 30mins long.
 
flamehead said:
Irrelevant though, "being good at sport" doesnt count as an academic qualification. This isnt a slight on those doing it, I also feel this way about music GCSE and I would have done it if my timetable hadn't clashed!

I just feel that academic quals should be like maths, english, latin, science.

*prepares to be jumped on*
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I quite agree with you, flamehead! Just another symptom of our country's (the world's??) obsession with qualifications. I just don't see what's wrong with good ol' hands on experience! With these sorts of careers, experience is generally much more valuable that theory, so why not have apprenticeships etc, like there used to be? :confused:
 
Ballyboo said:
I quite agree with you, flamehead! Just another symptom of our country's (the world's??) obsession with qualifications. I just don't see what's wrong with good ol' hands on experience! With these sorts of careers, experience is generally much more valuable that theory, so why not have apprenticeships etc, like there used to be? :confused:
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Well it is only a GCSE not a degree and as not everyone is academic it is a good way of getting the qualifications for a more practical course that suits certain type of people, you still need a certain about of qualifications to get onto those types of courses. I did GCSE PE and then went on to do A level Biology, Chemistry and Physics. I choose PE because I liked the theory side of it which was very scientific with links to biology, nutrition and even chemistry.
 
But its not "only" a GCSE is it. Some people leave school with them as their only qualification. They're pretty essential to move on to A level, you at least need to reach a certain number of Cs to progress to 6th form (in most places). You have to declare them on your university application and they can be the deciding factor between two people with the same A level grades.

Jobs still look at your GCSEs as a good grounding in how good your maths, english etc is. Even if you don't declare the actual subjects on your CV once you're passed degree level, even just writing "10 GCSES A-C" or whatever is still a farse as PE is not a gcse!

I am by no means criticising you as you're clearly extremely intelligent, based on your A levels! I just think giving someone was IS an important qualification because "they're good at being sporty" is pants.

Also, I can tack up my horse, bring her in, ride, jump, do dressage. Should I get a GCSE? Should everyone else with horses?

I also wash up every evening - is there a cleaning GCSE?
 
wispagold said:
Well it is only a GCSE not a degree and as not everyone is academic it is a good way of getting the qualifications for a more practical course that suits certain type of people, you still need a certain about of qualifications to get onto those types of courses. I did GCSE PE and then went on to do A level Biology, Chemistry and Physics. I choose PE because I liked the theory side of it which was very scientific with links to biology, nutrition and even chemistry.
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Each to their own, but if I wanted to do biology and chemistry I'd do... biology and chemistry. Which I did. But that's not the point :p

If you did A level biology, chemistry and physics, I'd say you were academic, anyway. If its available as a course there's no reason you shouldn't do it... I just don't think it should be. Seems a bit like a degree in Klingon to me.
 
GCSE PE is not a qualification for being good at sports. It is actually quite tough, I didn't do it, but a lot of my friends did. The A-level is even harder.

The four sports they have to be videoed doing make up less than half the marks, in addition they have to do a written exam which includes anatomy and physiology, sports science, nutrition etc. I seem to recall that they have to display knowledge of the rules of their sports too.

It is the sort of qualification you would be expected to have if you wanted to go on to do sports science or become a personal trainer, pe teacher, sports coach etc.

Music also is not just about being good at playing an instrument, you are required to have knowledge of theory not just be a good musician. When I was at school music was one of the hardest GCSEs to get decent marks in.

You critisisms could be applied to just about any GCSE subject. Why should you get a GCSE just for being good at your times tables??? Why should you get a GCSE for being good at drawing?? Or for being able to write poems?? Or whatever, because they are all small elements of what is required to pass the exam.
 
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