Coaching Certificate

Minimum Age: 18

Standards of Efficiency Test Sheet 2012

General

Before taking the Coaching Certificate, Candidates must have passed the B Test and have attended a Coaching Certificate Training Day.  If a candidate cannot attend a training day they must be informally assessed by either a Training Committee member or a Coaching Certificate assessor.

It is recommended that Candidates should have attended the Year 1 and Year 2 Pony Club Introduction to Coaching Courses and attend First Aid and Child Protection Training.

Objective

• To give candidates a sound base of coaching knowledge, to enable them to teach a group of riders up to C standard and a group of C+ standard for horse care.

Safety

• Risk assessment and practical solution to hazards found.
• Understand safety procedures involved in planning a hack.
• Understand safety procedures involved in organizing a ridden or dismounted lesson.
• Check the fitting and suitability of tack of their pupils.
• Assess riders and situation throughout the riding session to ensure safety.
• Know correct procedures in event of an accident.
• Fill in an accident form.

Riding Session

• Plan and teach a one hour lesson up to C Test level for a group of between four and six riders, to include jumping. Candidates must also supervise riders until they are in the care of their parents and/or guardians.
• Teach a lead rein lesson.

Coaching Skills Required:

• An audible well modulated voice.
• Ability to communicate.
• Wear correct clothing, clean, tidy and fit for purpose.
• Know and use school commands.
• Demonstrate the ability to improve the horsemanship of their pupils.
• Describe a progressive plan for their pupils’ next lesson, setting short and long term goals.

Horse Care Session

• Produce and be able to discuss plans for two thirty minute horse/pony care sessions, one for D+ and one for C+.
• Teach a thirty minute horse/pony care session up to C+ level.

Read

• The Manual of Horsemanship
• The Instructors Handbook
• Young Persons Guide to Eventing
• Young Persons Guide to Show Jumping
• To Be A Dressage Rider
• The Scales of Training (The Pony Club Web Site)
• UKCC Learning Resource Pack (The Pony Club Web Site)
• Vital Statistics
• Body Basics
• Fit for the Bit

The Pony Club Efficiency Tests

• E Test
• D Test
• D+ Test
• C Test
• C+ Test
• Road Rider Test
• B Test - Horse & Pony Care
• B Test - Riding
• B Test BHS Exemption
• Coaching Certificate
• Lungeing Test
• AH Test
• B+ Test
• A Test
• Hunting Certificate
• Polo Test (Lower)
• Polo Test (Higher)