Equine Working Notebooks

Tish competeting on "Miss Calculation" Click picture for larger view

About the author

Tish Adams is a BHS Registered Intermediate Instructor and Pony Club examiner for the B test and the AH Horse and Pony Care Tests and holds an International Coach's Passport as well as being a NVQ Assessor and Internal Verifier. She currently runs a livery, competition and training yard in Suffolk as well as being the Course Advisor and Tutor Team Leader for the Open College of Equine Studies marking papers for distance learning students worldwide.

Having married and trained as a teacher she graduated from the University of London, Goldsmiths College in 1973 and taught in a Comprehensive school in Hertfordshire for five years before having a family.

Her childhood interest and love of horses coupled with her teaching skills led her to train towards her Intermediate Instructors certificate which she obtained in 1984. During this time Tish became very involved in Pony Club and was the Chief Instructor for the Suffolk Hunt branch of the Pony Club for eight years. She is also involved with Pony Club at regional and national level.

With her educational experience and Pony Club interests she felt that the Pony Club efficiency tests could be trained for in a more structured way which would allow the student to have an insight in what would be expected of them in the test, hence the evolvement of the Working Notebooks.