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Schools 14-16 - Level 2 in Horse Care (Equine Studies)
Location: Broomfield Hall
Years: 2
Interview: Y
Course Summary
Delivered over two years, in Years 10 and 11, this course provides a foundation of knowledge, skills and work experience to help you gain employment within the equine industry or to progress to the next level of study.
Entry requirements
This Level 2 course will give you practical and theoretical skills to enable you to work with horses or progress to other academic courses.
You should have a strong interest in caring for horses. You need a basic level of literacy and numeracy skills and the capability to organise the written information for your portfolio. For ridden elements of the course, you should be able to walk, trot and canter independent of the rein. This can be discussed at your interview.
To ensure the welfare of our horses, we operate a personal weight restriction of no more than 13 stone (82.5kg).
Course Content
The course will cover:
- Undertake work-related experience in the land-based industries
- Carry out and understand the principles of feeding and watering horses
- Undertake routine stable duties
- Undertake horse handling
- Fit and maintain horse tack and clothing
- Introduction to riding horses on the flat
- Understand the principles of horse biology
- Introduction to jumping fences
And much more.....
How will I be assessed?
The course is continuously assessed using a range of methods including written tests, projects and practicals. All coursework will be completed to build a portfolio.
Are there any additional costs or specialist equipment required?
You will be required to supply your own:
- Correctly fitted and up to current safety standards riding hat
- Correctly fitted and up to current safety standards riding gloves
- Correctly fitted and up to current safety standards riding footwear
- Correctly fitted and up to current safety standards body protector
- Writing materials
What can I do after this course?
Upon completion of the qualification and depending on the grades achieved, learners may wish to progress to further study, such as:
- The Level 3 Diploma in Horse Management
- An Apprenticeship Programme at Level 3
Further study can lead to a variety of careers within the equine industry, including groom, farrier, trainee riding instructor and yard manager.
Melissa Shanker
Training to become an equine veterinary nurse
Melissa Shanker had always wanted to work with horses. Riding since she was nine years old, she even took part-time jobs at stables while she was at school. So studying Horse Management – together with various BHS qualifications – at Derby College was the ideal route to her dream career. After leaving College, Melissa always managed to find work with horses. She is now based at Pool House Equine Clinic in Lichfield where she has become their first-ever trainee veterinary nurse. She assists the vets with daily appointments and emergencies, helps with surgical procedures and is learning about how the laboratory is run.
Taking the course at Broomfield Hall gave me the qualifications I needed to pursue my chosen career as an equine veterinary nurse. It helped me develop
specific horse care knowledge which I wouldn’t have gained just through working at riding stables.
