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On
Saturday, June 10th, twenty students from Goodwin Technical High
School of New Britain participated in the school's first annual
Horse Show. The event at Avon Valley Show Stables was the culmination
of a program which began in January. During the past six months
students took riding classes once a week after school. They also
had two days a week of classroom instruction where they learned
about care, management, types of horses, diseases and illnesses
and other styles of riding.
The students conducted research and gave presentations to the
rest of the group, took a field trip to a tack shop, and were
able to watch an equine dentist and farrier (blacksmith) as they
performed their respective jobs.
Two of the students that rode in the horseshow were hired by Avon
Valley Show Stables to work there this summer. The program funded
by a Title 1 grant was set up by Goodwin Tech staff members Holly
Herzman-Ward and Jill Bromley-Hamilton.
See
more photo highlights of the Horse Show. |
