• Horse motivated students learn life skills through horses
• Residential
• Courses start September (usually)
• 38 weeks per year
• Maximum 45 students
• Age 16-25

General Description of College:
The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy (FCRT) is for young people, aged 16-25, with learning difficulties and disabilities who have a desire to learn in an equine environment. The FCRT runs a 3 year residential Further Education Through Horsemastership course to guide and support students to transfer this learning in the development of life and social skills.

The FCRT is one organisation run on 3 sites in the New Forest in a rural equine environment. The nearest mainline railway station is Brockenhurst

The Curriculum:
Students participate in an active outdoor day with and around horses in a structured routine. Teaching and learning is horse-based and through transferable skills embedded within an extended practical curriculum that includes mounted and dismounted work including vaulting, self-care, independent living, literacy, numeracy and communication (including money management) behaviour and health and fitness. Differentiated work experience placements are tailor-made to each student. The course develops an individual’s ability to communicate and to learn to accept responsibility and relate to others through Basic and Essential Skills. Students acquire equine vocational skills and can achieve accredited and/or internal certification.

Specialist Facilities:
Equine/equestrian.

Statements:

1. expertise in meeting the needs of students with moderate learning difficulties
2. expertise in supporting learners with behavioural difficulties
3. a personal development programme
4. opportunities to follow a specific vocational course
5. a programme to enable students to learn more about themselves and how to form relationships
6. opportunities for learners participate in community activities and to learn about citizenship
7. a programme to help learners to look after themselves more independently
8. opportunities to experience real work situations
9. opportunities to improve literacy, numeracy and communication skills
10. opportunities to develop strategies to minimise incidence of inappropriate behaviour
11. opportunities to learn in small steps
12. opportunities to improve Information learning technology skills
13. opportunities to take part in a wide range of social, leisure and sporting activities
14. in-house physiotherapy
15. sessions to improve posture and mobility
16. guidance and counselling services
17. registered care home status
18. residential provision linked to the academic year
19. a social skills programme
20. a supported transition programme into independent or supported living

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