Equine Studies- Easton College

Nearly time for our open day! Have you considered studying Equine management? Come along to find out more about our courses!

Visit our Open Day to view our stunning 200-hectare campus and specialist state-of-the-art facilities. http://ow.ly/wFta50GqHVp

Well done to our Equine staff and students who played a big part in the running of the Blackwater Farm One Day Event! A fab day had by all!

Thank you to Blackwater Farm for inviting our team to support the day!

⭐️Yesterday marked the end of our season of One Day Events and what a fabulous event we had!⭐️

We cannot thank our amazing volunteers enough- all our regulars who have helped all season and also the Eastern College staff and students who gave it their all yesterday!
We were honoured to host qualifiers for the British Connemara Pony Society all of this year and overjoyed to end on the high of their performance day yesterday that welcomed so many new competitors and wonderful Connemara ponies.

Of course none of this would be possible without all of you competitors, horses and ponies! The support you give us every year is incredible and we hope you’ve enjoyed your days of competition and training with us too ❤️

Our fantastic photographer at our One Day Events all year has diligently captured your achievements so please go and support them too-
https://www.eventsphotos.co.uk/

Our excellent caterers as always were Speciality Food Company who I’m certain you’ve all been very grateful for too! Thanks also to Gelebe Farm Saddlery for catering to everyones saddlery needs, and to Ikon Ambulance Services for another season of first rate event medical cover.

We’ll soon be planning our next season of events for 2022 so keep your eyes peeled for updates!

THANK YOU!!
From all of us here at Blackwater Farm

It is nearly that time when we welcome all of our students back for a new academic year!

Please head over to the Equestrian Centre and our team will meet you for your induction.

If you need any help at all in the morning, please look out for a member of staff with their red lanyard or purple high vis.

We can't wait to welcome you to Easton!

It's been an amazing week of enrolments and we've enjoyed meeting all of our new students! We can't wait to speak with all our progressing students next week to get you enrolled for the new year!

Enrolment starts tomorrow!

The Equine Studies Team are super excited to meet our new students tomorrow for their enrolment. When you come for your enrolment please remember to:

- Read your enrolment letter thoroughly.
- Use the car park and entrance points indicated on your letter.
- Remember a maximum of 1 person can accompany you into the enrolment room.
- Our enrolment area is the Bacon Centre. Please wait in the waiting area and a member of staff will collect you from there for your enrolment.
- Please ensure you use the hand sanitiser stations.
- Please ensure you adhere to social distancing at all times.

We can't wait to meet you!

🌟🐴 RECRUITING HORSES FOR SEPTEMBER 2021 🐴🌟

At Easton College, we run a variety of courses from Level 1 to Level 6 in Equestrian Studies to support students in their understanding, knowledge and skills required within the Equine industry. A key part of our students education is working with a variety of horses in state of the art facilities in order to support their knowledge application and skills development. We are now recruiting horses for the new academic year and we have provided some information in the attached image if this may be of interest to you or someone you know 🌟

Maybe you are a student coming to the college, or someone heading off to University, or someone who’s circumstances have changed? This could be a great option for you 🐴🌟

Please do help us share this post to spread the word 🐴🌟

For further information, please contact us via email- [email protected]

Some great opportunities to get involved in 🤩🌟

Volunteer Opportunities We are a busy competition venue, hosting many events throughout the year including the British Dressage Winter Regional Championship and the PetPlan Summer Area Festival, and we rely very heavily on a loyal group of fantastic volunteers, but we are ALWAYS looking for more to join the team. If you ca...

It’s Friday 🤩 and this means that it is also the last day before a well earned half term break 🌟

Our students and staff have all worked incredibly hard this half term and we are very proud of them 🌟. Even the horses have been busy trying to help with marking 🙊🐴🌟. We know there is still one last push coming up to get all final assessments and grades uploaded to support our students in achieving the qualifications they deserve.

We have half term catch up club happening next week and students needing to catch up will be asked to attend. Some of the college buses will be running to support this, so please make sure our students check their Blackboard page for more information.

We hope that you all have the best bank holiday weekend and enjoy (safely) the nice weather ☀️

Q&A Session with Deputy Principal | Easton College You can apply for multiple courses in a single application. We suggest having a backup option and applying for at least two courses.

Goats 🐐?! I bet you wonder why we are posting about goats?!

Well, our super Year 2 Equine students had a very different start to the day...they helped our Level 1 Animal Students who needed to practice delivering to other learners about the health checking and handling of goats.

A huge thank you for embracing something different and helping out other students on another course. We hope the goats weren’t too cheeky as we know they can be a bit mischievous at times 😂

🚨WE ARE BACK🚨

So sorry that we have been quiet the last few weeks...as all our students know, it has been a very busy time responding to all our awarding body needs and ensuring our students have the best opportunity to complete any remaining assessments to support them in achieving the grades they deserve.

We want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate our students so far on their hardwork and determined attitudes over the last few weeks...they really have made us proud 🌟

We are nearly there in what has been another different and challenging year...a few more weeks to help tidy up assessments and look at support for our students next steps before we can all have a well earned break for the summer.

We have lots to share with you over the next few weeks for current and future students, so please keep a look out for any updates 🤩

🌟Happy Half Term🌟

We have made it to the end of an incredibly challenging term, but one that has continued to remind us just how awesome our students are. They have adapted to online learning and then returned to college, all while keeping on top of their assessments and studies. They have understood the importance of easing the horses back into work and been super stars with our COVID control measures and cleaning regimes. We really are so proud of each and everyone of our students 🌟.

Our Head of Area will be in touch with all students via email next week to confirm the plans for after Easter and coming back to college.

Message to all students- It is so important that you have a break over these next 2 weeks, as well as use the time to get on top of your assessments...it will be very busy when we return, so ensure you are ahead, rather than behind 🙌🏻. If you are unsure of what you need to do, please contact your Tutor, Course Leader or Head of Department.

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Be part of an amazing team 🌟

City College Norwich Easton College is looking to recruit a Lead Equine Technician to add to its hard-working team based in our very impressive Equine Centre. Click the link to apply https://www.jobs24.co.uk/jobs/54703216-lead-equine-technician-at-city-college-norwich

The beautiful Lenny, along with all of the horses at college, have thoroughly enjoyed seeing our learners return to college this week 🤩🐴 Thank you to Eloise for sharing this lovely photo of Lenny with us 🥰🐴

Our last L2 group continued the great work on Friday. They battled the changing weather and embraced the new ways of working (even bossed the new cleaning regime).

As a teaching team, we have absolutely loved being back with our learners and horses and we hope that all learners have felt good coming on site in difficult times. We couldn’t be more proud of you all 🌟.

Let’s continue the great work over the next 2 weeks before the Easter break🌟🐴🌟

What happened to the weather today 🤷🏻‍♀️?!?

Despite the rain and wind, we welcomed back another set of awesome students who didn’t let the poor weather stop them getting stuck in, embracing new ways of working and dealing with whatever was thrown at them 🙌🏻🐴🌟

We look forward to welcoming our L2s across the next 2 days, and hope it will be a great end to a successful week back 🤞🤩

And another successful day in our Equine department 🤩. Our first group of Year 1 students for the week did a great job and were straight back into the swing of things, working in line with our COVID measures and supporting the horses in easing back in to college life 🐴🌟

Also a huge shout out to our teaching and yard team who have worked their socks off to support our students and horses in returning to campus in difficult times 🌟🐴🌟

We just want to say a huge thank you to the students that returned to campus today. We know there were many nerves coming back, but we were so impressed with their attitudes and adherence to the rules, despite a variety of IT challenges and some cheeky horses who were clearly a little bit excited to see our students back 🙊🐴.

Our Year 2s did a super job today 🌟. Let’s hope the rest of the week follows the same pattern with our L3 Year 1s and L2s and we continue to have a successful and safe return to campus 🌟🐴🌟

🌟Return To College🌟

Students- please check your emails/ Blackboard Announcemet page for details about returning to college next week and what to expect. Your timetable for the week has also been uploaded.

We are in this together so let’s ensure we do the right things and support each other always 🌟

We are really excited to be welcoming the horses back this weekend and our students from next week. We know these are nervous times, but we are doing all we can to support a safe return to college site and it will be important that we all play our part. College will look and feel a bit different, but it is really important to ease the horses and ourselves back into working safely onsite. Our Head of Department will be sending out all you need to know later today, so please do keep an eye on your emails and read through before your return. It is important you keep talking to us, so if you are unsure or have further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask 🌟

📸 Don’t forget, there is still time to enter our Spring Is Coming Photograph competition 🤩🌟. Just send your Spring Photos to Zoe Gusterson via your student email and you will be put into a draw to win a £10 Love2Shop Voucher 🤩🌟

We look forward to seeing your entries 🤩

🚌Travel Update🚌

Please check out the latest news on our website www.easton.ac.uk regarding the return to college. Once we have more specific details, we will be in touch with final plans via your email/ Blackboard page.

We are really looking forward to welcoming you all back to campus, but it is so important that we all remember to play our part in keeping ourselves and others safe 🌟

🌟Competition Time🌟

You should have received an email from our Head of Department regarding our Wellbeing Challenges for the week and the chance to win prizes 🤩🌟

Be sure to check it out and get involved:
1. 60 Second Challenge 🎾
2. Spring is on the way- photography competition 📸
3. Create your own Bird Feeder 🐦

Our brilliant yard team have been using their time in lockdown to not only look after the horses still onsite, but to also make some supportive videos to help students in the future with procedures on the yard 🌟

A huge thank you to all the yard team for their continued hard work and producing some great resources for the future 🤩🌟

🌟Welcome Back 🌟

We hope you all had a restful and refreshing half term break. We are all really looking forward to welcoming you back into your virtual classrooms this week 🤩💻

Please make sure you check your emails for a message and timetable for the week from our Head of Department. We know there will be lots of questions this week following government and awarding body announcements and we will ensure that we update you once we have the full answers 🌟

Wishing all of our wonderful staff and students a relaxing and refreshing half term...you all totally deserve it after your hard work and positive attitude to online learning and whatever challenges have been thrown at us 🌟

Some of our Level 3 Year 1s took part in a Unicorn bake off challenge this week...and check out their awesome skills 🤩🦄

There were so many awesome entries, but the final winner was voted as Bea Layton (main picture)...Well Done Bea 🌟🦄🌟

‘What is this green stuff I have found?!?’

Some of the horses were out hunting for grass on this sunny, snowy day 🥰🐴☀️❄️

Anyone else had to dig their horse out of the snow this morning?!? 🤦🏻‍♀️🐴❄️

Another awesome snow creation 🤩⛄️❄️. This one is from another Jess, but this time from our Level 2 Animal group 🤩🌟

Don’t forget to send yours in to Zoe Gusterson for a chance to win a prize 🤩⛄️❄️

Wow...another awesome snow creation🤩...this time by Jess, another one of our Equine students 🐑❄️

Don’t forget to send over your creations to Zoe Gusterson...we have decided to run a competition for the best snow creation 🤩🌟

Wow 🤩...check out this awesome snow creation submission from Jess⛄️❄️...we love it 🐴🌟

Don’t forget to share yours with us too 🤩❄️

Our next round of challenges is now available 🤩

Check out your Blackboard Announcement Page for more details 🌟

We look forward to seeing what you get up to and in particular your snow creations ⛄️❄️

What is your horse like in the snow ❄️...

🐴 Murphy- Get me out there 🤩
🐴 Amira- I’m cool in here 🥰