BTEC National Diploma Horse Management

[kaylee3]

Hi, in september i am going to an equine college and i have applied for the folloing course...

BTEC NATIONAL DIPLOMA HORSE MANAGEMENT

i chose this course as it was the highest level course, (you have to get 5 GCSE's at grades A-C) i could do at my age (16 years) it is a 2 year course that can lead onto any equine job such as ....
instructors
grooms
or even onto higher courses

could anybody tell me if they have done this course?
was it worth the 2 years?

Thanks
Kaylee
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[charlotte+jill!]

Hey

which college you going to??? Im doing the BTEC national diploma horse management stud option at hartpury, in sept.

Sorry I cant help with your question but im really looking forward to it and I think it will give me good experiance as working with stallions etc.... and lets me progress onto the dregree i would like to do.

Editted to add lynz+ollie is doing your course at warks and shes enjoying it me thinks :D

[buster]

it took my friends a year an half to be an instructer i'm a groom and i didn't do any courses.......... :D

[lynz+ollie]

yep ive just finnished my first year in it and it great fun!
the first year is usually the general horsey stuff but year two you go off in the direction you want to go into like riding, taching , stud, rehab etc.

where you planning on going, im at warks col in moreton morrell.

[No_Angel]

Ive done the course, finished it last june. I basically got a qualification in sweeping :rolleyes: I did become a groom but really didnt like it. In my first year I was actuallystudent of the year :p but slacked abit in the second year as it got a bit booring. I took event management instead of the jumping module and got a bit left out in my riding lessons because the rest of my riding group did jumping, it was sort of the higher riding group jumped and the lower group did event management, apart from me. You have to do a realy big assignment in business management in the 2nd year.
Other than that I quite liked college, I made some really good friends,mostly horsey, and had a real good time going down the pub :p :D

[kelsey27]

U lucky i really wanted 2 go to hartpury but i think it was a bit far away from home, im hoping to go after doing my ND and do the Higher at hartpury. Im doing My ND in september at morton morell cant wait xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[charlotte+jill!]

Kool you'll be at the same place as lynz, im sure you'll have great fun, she does ;)

Hee Hee im sure you wldnt be as far as ill be from home when i go to Hartpury, im in suffolk (my mums really looking forward to the trips wit the horses :rolleyes: ) but ill be staying to do my higher stuff there too.

[kelsey27]

Hehehe wow i really wanted to go so your very lucky i dont think my dad wants me 2 b that far and my horse is awful at moving yards it really unsettles him. But i will be coming when i go my higher so i will c u then, do u no anyone else who is going to the same college as you because i dont no anyone who is going to mine. its kind of scary lol
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[lynz+ollie]

yay your coming to moreton morrell!
thats where i am!
are you living in?, its great fun u'll love it i cant wait to go back. ill be on the second year of your course

[kelsey27]

Nah not leaving in dnt live too far n i wud want to bring kasey and they dont turn out there do they. One thing is do u find it hard to do all your work from school, is there loads and loads to do. im relli lookin forward to it but its scary i wont no anyone :( lol xxxxxxxxx

[lynz+ollie]

the first year isn't too bad, i managed to have a horse and do all my work, and still to go out partying every night!

And they do do turnout there is just about 1 month a year where they dont but they might doing it. ollie used to go out usually everyday for a few hours.
only thing is the mud is really clay and hard to get off.

[kelsey27]

dats gud cuz i was worryin bout dat.

But myhorse hates to be stabled really n if he ant put out 4 a long perioid of time den he is unridable which is a bugga becuase i would of loved to of bought him and stayed there never mind :D

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