Skills: To recognise different emotions and herd behaviours.

1. Recognise different horse emotions shown through the horses, pony or donkey's ears, tail and other body language signs.
2. Recognise and name different emotions and behaviours when a horse, pony or donkey is at grass.
3. How can your behaviour affect a horse, pony or donkey both on the ground and when in the saddle?
4. Desribe how the presense of horses, ponies or donkeys affects your own emotions.
5. How many emotions can you name? Make a list.

Skills: To recognise different characterics and traits of a donkey.

1. A Donkey is a hoofed mammal that are part of the Equidae family. Horses and Zebras are also animals that are part of the Equidae family. 
2. A boy donkey is called a Jack. A girl donkey is called a Jenny.
3. Donkeys make a loud braying noise that goes on for several seconds.
4. Donkey’s coats are not waterproof.
5. Life span 40-50 years
6. Herbivore eating only grass, shrubs, straw & grains.
7. Donkey hooves are more elastic than those of horses, and do not naturally wear down as fast.
8. Donkeys can be used to guard livestock against predators. They instinctively attack, by biting and kicking.
9. A donkey’s ears are much longer than a horses. Their ears help keep the donkey cool in warm dry environments.

Skills: To understand how to work safely and effectively on a stable yard to meet the needs of the herd.

1. Explain the difference between mucking out and skipping out. Demonstrate how to muck out.
2. Prepare a stable adding new bedding, water and hay.
3. Know how to store feed correctly.
4. Demonstrate how to tie a hay net safely and the reason for using this type of knot.
5. Understand the need for weighing and feeding the correct amounts for the different members of the herd. Making and weighing a hay net. Reading scales in KG.
6. Manual Handling – Demonstrate how to pick up a heavy object correctly and safely.
7. Understand the need for working safely in a tidy environment.
8. Pasture Management – Cleaning of droppings.
9. Know and understand the five freedoms of animals.