Members Area

Members can access the whole site and enjoy more pony quizzes, competitions, and pages about horses and ponies, equitation and stable management.

Join now and receive a free copy of Anna Sewells clasic story of Black Beauty.

Join Now! With PayPal, just £3.75 a month

The aim of Poniesonline is to use your children’s love of horses and ponies and their desire to learn about them to enhance their general learning abilities. To equip them with the skills they need to succeed at school and university.

Research shows that we learn best when study skills are embedded into a course of study - not shunted onto one or taught alone. Poniesonline does this.

Poniesonline is aimed at children who are just starting to learn to ride. It covers the basics of riding and handling ponies safely and builds on this month by month.

Membership costs just 3.75 a month and you are, of course, free to cancel at any time.

Your child will receive a password that allows access to all the course material which is updated each month and designed to build on his or her equestrian knowledge and provide repeated exposure to a variety of skills proven to aid learning.

Your child will also receive a free ebook of Anna Sewell’s classic story, Black Beauty.

Neither your, or your child’s data will be sold, loaned or leased to any third party. If your child wants his or her work displayed on the site, only their first name and county will be included.

Information for Parents

Poniesonline introduces the following study skills:

Organisation in study

Simple research

Active reading - students are asked to make up their own questions before reading the text. This ‘primes’ the brain to scan for the answers and so processes the information more deeply.

Comprehension, followed by quizzes to test understanding.

Observational skills - students are encouraged to complete ‘pony watching’ tables.

Language skills - students are encouraged to record all new vocabulary that they find on the site.

Attention span - as the optimum attention span for learning is 20 minutes, students are reminded to take frequent brakes.

Ergonomics - not exactly a study skill, but an important factor to consider if your child is to spend a considerable amount of time in front of a computer.

Intra-personal understanding - a series of questionnaires to help students develop an understanding of self.

Please click on the link to view the syllabus.