Working Students

Calleva offers a wonderful Working Student program for horse enthusiasts 13 and up. Working Students are picked from Calleva's fine pool of riding students. Potential Working Students will undergo a training and evaluation process before becoming 'full fledged' Working Students. Working Students are required to assist instructors during lesson time. They catch horses in the fields, bring them into the barn. They are expected to teach the basics of grooming and tacking to novice riding students, lead beginners in lessons, untack horses, return them to their pastures and assist in keeping the barn clean. Working Students are paid with a riding lesson after 3 hours of work. Most of our Working Students become very accomplished and confident horse people. Due to their knowledge and confidence quite a number of our Calleva Working Students have actually been hired by other barns to assist their students! We love to see the evolution of our Working Students; a few have even become riding instructors for CEEP and Calleva's summer camp!