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Career profile · 12 to 15

Riding School Instructor

Teach riders of every age to be safe, kind and confident with horses.

Riding schools and clubsLots of people contactCoaching awards later

See this for age 8 to 1116 to 17

A day in the life

  1. Check horses and plan the day's lessons
  2. Teach a beginners' group lesson
  3. One-to-one lesson for a nervous rider
  4. Run a stable management session
  5. Update records and talk to parents

Skills you will need

  • Clear instructions
  • Patience
  • Safety awareness
  • Reading horse and rider
  • Leadership
  • Encouraging people

Skills

The skills this career uses

Longer bars show what matters most for a riding school instructor at 12 to 15.

Horse careFeeding, grooming, health
Behaviour and handlingReading and handling horses
People and communicationCustomers, teams, teaching
Safety and first aidKeeping people and horses safe
Business and planningMoney, plans, marketing

Your own career card

Soon, when you log in, you can tick your experience, mark courses done and see exactly what to grow next.

Suggested

Your best first courses, for 12 to 15

The three courses that build the most useful skills for this career at your age.

Start here

Plan a Horse Show

Helps with: people and communication, business and planning, safety and first aid.

Coming soon
Then

Reading Equine Body Language

Helps with: behaviour and handling, safety and first aid.

Coming soon
After that

How Horses Learn: Training Through Trust

Helps with: behaviour and handling, people and communication.

Coming soon

Your route · 12 to 15

Your Develop route

Do these in any order. Only courses for 12 to 15 are shown.

Develop12 to 15
  1. How Horses Learn: Training Through TrustComing soon
  2. Fight or Flight: The Horse's Survival InstinctComing soon
  3. The Horse and the Herd LeaderComing soon
  4. Plan a Horse ShowComing soon
  5. Reading Equine Body LanguageComing soon

After this route

Helper at a riding school

Coming at 16 to 17At 16 you can start recognised training: 1 UKRS accredited course and 3 more we are checking, plus help getting ready for work.

Next steps

What to do next

Ask a parent or carer first, and choose places that have a safeguarding policy.

Courses marked "UKRS: being checked" are working examples from the UKRS library of more than 50 courses. Each is checked against its exact standard, minimum age and approval before it is offered or described as UKRS accredited. All courses are coming soon.