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Hartpury Outreach for Schools & Colleges

Hartpury Outreach for Schools & Colleges

Rider performance centre Students will get the opportunity to test our world class equine performance laboratory equipment in our Margaret Giffen Centre for Rider Performance. Assessing balance, centre, and reins tension, students will get an in depth look at their riding technique. Please note, this workshop is limited to 10 students due to capacity limitations.

Maintaining healthy equine diets

Equine obesity is a contemporary issue that owners and industry practitioners are working together to tackle. This workshop will encourage students to think like an equine nutritionist, learn how we can monitor the horse’s weight and condition, and design feeding regimes based on individual requirements.

Equipment required: Protective footwear such as strong boots or trainers. Legs must be covered e.g. trousers, no skirts/shorts. Year groups:

Equipment required: Pen Year groups:

Did you know? We have stabling for 230 horses in our equine facilities including 150 stables for student livery.

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes Method of delivery: Face-to-face on or off campus, or virtual

Duration: 45 to 60 minutes Method of delivery: Face-to-face on campus

Equine

The equine skeleton: exploring anatomy

The equine athlete: beneath the surface (Dissection in laboratory)

Horses usually have 205 bones in their skeleton, which allows for movement and stability when moving at speeds up to 30mph in gallop. This interactive workshop will encourage students to think like an Equine Scientist, discovering how the equine skeleton works together to support such an incredible athlete.

The horse has evolved and adapted to survive as a prey animal, capable of reaching speeds of over 30mph. This dissection workshop gives students an opportunity to look at one of the anatomical structures that makes the horse such an incredible athlete. Equipment required: Protective footwear such as strong boots or trainers. Legs must be covered e.g. trousers, no skirts/shorts. Year groups:

Equine taster day This whole day is designed to give an overall insight into what it would be like to study equine at university level. This equine taster day includes subject specific workshops and a tour of our outstanding facilities. We can also offer half day subject taster days, and all timetables can be adapted to suit your school or colleges timings.

Example timetable

09:20

Arrival

09:30

Welcome

Equipment required: Pen Year groups:

Laboratory dissection

10:00

Maintaining healthy diets

11:00

12:00

Lunch break

Duration: 45 to 60 minutes Method of delivery: Face-to-face on campus

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes Method of delivery: Face-to-face on campus

Rider performance centre

12:30

Please note: that our team will need a minimum of 2 months’ notice in order to book a subject taster day. Year groups:

13:30

Campus tour

14:20

Taster day summary

14:35

Depart