FRIDAY SADDLE CLUB
RIDE & STABLE MANAGEMENT SESSIONS
Bank Farm Riding School provides excellent opportunities for beginners and experienced riders in Stockport and the surrounding areas.
We have more than 6 Stable Management Levels
These Sessions are for Children from 6 years+ including adults, for all abilities.
Our Saddle Club Session is 1 & 1/2 Hours
(1/2hr Stable Management & 1hr Ride)
BRONZE BADGE
Covered in the Yellow & Blue Syllabus’s
- Name basic points of the Horse
- Assist a Rider Mounting
- Give a Leg Up
- Fit a Hat to a Rider
- Adjust Stirrups from the ground
- Show a rider how to hold their reins
- Able to check & tighten a girth before mounting
- Yard Safety
- Name different parts of the Bridle
- Name different parts of the Saddle
- Name the different items of the grooming kit
- Lead a pony in-hand
- Correct way to give a pony an apple/carrot
- Approach & handle a pony correctly
- Catch a pony & put a head collar on
- Demonstrate awareness off safety rules & hazards
- Tie up a pony correctly
- Able to tie a hay net up correctly
- Pick up & pick out feet
- Know the Principles of watering & feeding
- How to stop a car
- How to say ‘thank-you’
- How to cross a road
- Know which side of the road you should ride on
- Understand the simple ‘green cross code’
- Know it is safer to ride on the road with adults or parents
- Demonstrate Mucking Out
- Bed down
- Demonstrate watering the horse
- Put on and Remove A head collar correctly
- Name & describe different types of bedding
- Be able to Put on a Saddle
- Be able to put on a Bridle
- Name different horse’s colours
- Name different Markings
- Name different Rugs
- Know the importance of ill-fitting rugs
- Know how to fit a rug
- Know how to care for & clean saddlery
- Have knowledge of correctly fitting tack
- Be able to identify Poisonous Plants
- Untack correctly
- Communicate with Riders & Instructors when assisting
- How to ride along a road
- How to signal Right & Left
- Show an awareness of dangers while riding on a road
Once you have completed the Bronze Section you will receive a Bronze Badge on Ecpro
SILVER BADGE
Covered in the Green & Orange Syllabus’s
- Horse & Rider 1st Aid Kit
- Field Safety (shelter, fencing, poisonous plants, maintenance)
- Treatment of minor Cuts & Abrasions
- Correct handling of ponies’ legs
- Correct grooming of ponies’ feet & legs
- Tack up & Un-tack Unaided & put away correctly
- Basic feeding
- clean & assemble tack
- catch a pony & turn it away in the field
- know that water must always be available
- know the structure of the horse’s foot
- know the names of the farrier’s tools
- identify signs of ill health
- understand the importance of roughage
- requirements to plaiting a horse
- plaiting a horse
- different mouth pieces & their actions
- arena safety – rules of the arena
- yard jobs (& safety)
- how to lead a pony along a road on foot
- how to slow a car down
- care & working of a pony off grass
- elementary feeding, watering & cleanliness of the pony
- know when a pony needs shoeing
- know what to look for in a newly shod foot
- know the main indications for health in the pony
- recognise when a pony is lame
- know how to load & un-load a pony
- understand the importance & the means of protecting les while travelling
- put a rug, roller, tail bandage & New Zealand on
- know what equipment is needed for lunging
- know reasons for lunging
- skeleton of the horse
- know different bandages & apply them
- knowledge of ill-fitting bandages
- show knowledge of hay & haylage
- understand the importance of roughage
- knowledge of stabling-ventilation-lights-drainage-shelter & warmth
- take a horse’s temperature
- weigh a horse
- understand the reasons for equipment a horse is wearing
- how to lead a pony along a road while mounted
- Once you have completed the Silver Section you will receive a Silver Badge on Ecpro
GOLD BADGE
Covered in the Purple & Red Syllabus’s
Upon completing each syllabus, you will receive a certificate once you receive your certificate and then once you have completed each Badge you will receive the badge on Ecpro.
This means: if there are no badges displayed, you are at level 1+2, working towards Bronze.
If a Bronze badge is displayed, you have completed level 1+2 and now working towards Silver (level 3+4) and so on.
You will require
*paper
*folder
*pens
*riding hat for when around and handling horses (you can hire one)
*gloves for when handling horses
*Access to a printer to print off SHEETS required which can be found on our google drive please follow the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gyFxnlXmtlMmrK_mIGG-8HuX6gHAEPFC?usp=sharing (any sheets that are not very clear please still print as they will be doing theory Aswell and will be writing the information on the sheets that they may need for that particular unit)
* A Snack
*Plenty to drink
* Coat
* Extra clothing (in cold weather)
*Sun cream & hat (in hot weather)
You will need to register with us :- https://bankfarmridingschool.ecpro.co.uk
and add a rider(s)
HOW TO BOOK
- Check dates we have available for EVERY FRIDAY
DATES:- FRIDAYS
- These can be Purchased on individual days or in a Calendar month bundle
Click on MAKE A BOOKING go to DATE and select ACTIVITIES
3. Select either WHOLE ACTIVITY COURSE or SELECTED DATES then you can select as many dates as you want 1, 2 etc
4. Select Rider
5. Select Hat Hire if you need to Hire a hat, Hats are to be worn whilst on Saddle Club Courses
6. ADD to BASKET then CHECKOUT and PAY
NO SHORTS, SKIRTS, DRESSES, TRAINERS, FLIP FLOPS, DOLLY SHOES
NON-REFUNDABLE/NON-TRANSFERABLE
This is the best riding school because A – it’s not dear, B – everybody that works there is so kind and I LOVE riding their horses (especially Cassie). All of the horses are well fed, bedded and looked after.
Chloe Williams
